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I am using Google Apps to send mail through my private domain. I have used WHM to set my DNS TXT record to "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all" for mydomain.com. as advised by Google.

When I send a bunch of SMTP mails, I get SPF passes to emails sent to external domains from admin@mydomain.com. But emails that go to anythingelse@mydomain.com get a softfail as follows:

Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning admin@mydomain.com does not designate 123.123.123.123 as permitted sender) client-ip=123.123.123.123;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning admin@mydomain.com does not designate 123.123.123.123 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=admin@mydomain.com

where 123.123.123.123 is the dedicated IP for mydomain.com.

Any idea why this is? Even though I have set the server to send SMTP through Google, it seems to just overwrite that for emails to the local domain. I have tried changing the TXT record to "v=spf1 ipv4:123.123.123.123 include:_spf.google.com ~all" but get the same result.

Thanks in advance.

edanfalls
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How long did you wait after making the change to your SPF record? What is the TXT records TTL? Based on the information you're providing you seem to have it configured correctly. DNS is cached and replicated system so you make take hours or days based on the length of the TTL.

Edit: I believe you have a typo it should be "ip4:123.123.123.123" Check that your SPF is vaild here http://www.openspf.org/.

citadelgrad
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