why spf soft fail appear hard fail in gmail

Question

abc.com. 1D IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ipv4:10.11.x.x -all" This is result i got using dig root#dig txt abc.com.

But when i send mail to my gmail from this domain, gmail says softfail and 10.11.x.x is not allowed to send mail for this mail.

Can anyone please guide me

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '11 at 12:54

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You have typo - ipv4 instead of ip4

answered Apr 27 '11 at 12:54

AlexD

Alex is absolutely right: see the standard definition at eg http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax for more details. – MadHatter Apr 27 '11 at 13:33
I did , no luck some domains still appearing in soft fail while configured for hard fail – vnix27 Apr 27 '11 at 13:58
Try adding prefix-length to IP, e.g. 10.11.x.x/16 – AlexD Apr 27 '11 at 14:39

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