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Sender Policy Framework is a standard by which the owner of a domain uses a specially formed DNS record to advertise which hosts are authorized to send email for the domain.

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a technique to prevent e-mail sender address forgery. With SPF system administrators add information about allowed senders for particular domain in a DNS server's TXT and/or SPF record.

Please have a look at the canonical question What are SPF records and how do I configure them.

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SPF Records with Subdomains

Amazon recommends the following SPF Record: "v=spf1 include:amazonses.com -all" However, will this work for SES servers based in EU? eu-west-1.amazonses.com
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Why does Microsoft's own Sender ID wizard generate a SPF record instead?

I'm trying to create a Sender ID record for TurboLab.it with Microsoft's own Sender ID wizard but the wizard always return something like v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:95.141.32.205 -all: this looks like SPF, not Sender ID to me! Shouldn't it return something…
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server's email going to spam for yahoo users, possible SPF issue?

Our website is sending out email verifications to members who sign up with our service. Yahoo is throwing our messages in the spam box and displaying this message in the headers: Received-SPF: none (domain of -.com does not designate permitted…
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SPF record for sending emails

The website is under our server with the domain: xxxx.org.il the client email is xxxx@yyyyyy.co.il the email they get is from a third party the email we sent from the website are trough one of the ISP here with authentication for one of our local…
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spf record setup

Emails sent by mta from my server recognizes by spam filters as spam and there's message : Received-SPF: neutral ... Actually, I am not spammer :) So, I googled around these questions and found that I need setup two things SPF record DKIM Now I am…
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Postfix; Why did this email not get blocked?

Consider the following junk email received in which the recipient address is the same as the sender's address, but this users didn't send them self the email, it is junk mail; (All hostnames and IPs have been changed for privacy): Return-Path:…
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Mail server Dns zone file configuration

My server hostname is: test02.s80.in and its IP address is: 176.67.172.209 I want to configure a postfix mail server on this server. Can anyone tell me the correct DNS zone file configuration for this server so that I get a spf="Pass", when I…
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spf record entry

I have two DNS zone files can anyone please tell me in which one I have to add an SPF record? Zone (localhost.zone): $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA @ root ( 42 ; serial (d. adams) …
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What are the disadvantages of SPF?

Possible Duplicate: SPF - should I implement? In relation to this question and I've also been warned against it myself by an ISP tech, what are some of the common reasons against using SPF, whether valid or otherwise?
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550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable

I setup a small box with Server 2003 64bit to be used as a webserver and email server for a small school. Real simple stuff for a few users. A simple website and a handful of emails. rDNS and spf records setup and pass every test I found including…
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Setup bind9 dns for setup DKIM and SPF records

Currently emails from my mail server is blocked by gmail. I want to setup DKIM and SPF records for my mail server.But web domain register doesn't allow me to setup DKIM and SPF records it says I need to setup separate dns server for those records.…
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Unable to send email to gmail account from my mail server

I've created a mail server and have setup a PTR record from the ISP to my static IP server. The mail server works well and am able to send and receive emails and send mails to many email addresses including outlook/hotmail. But I'm not able to send…
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Setting SPF record for mail relay servers to avoid softfail

I have an issue with correctly setting the SPF record for my own domain. Initially my DNS settings as set by the domainhoster were as follows: @ TXT "v=spf1 mx ~all" @ MX 10 mx101.solcon.nl @ MX 10 mx102.solcon.nl I tested sending an…
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SPF Error with redirection

so I have this crazy SPF-Policy problem which looks like that: I have a private domain like 'my-private-domain.com'. This one I'm hosting myself on a vServer and I activated SPF and added the SPF keys and so on. Works good to receive messages from…
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SPF, CloudFlare, Google Apps - Email sent through Contact Form marked as spam

One of the main reasons of putting your server behind CloudFlare is to hide your server's IP address so an attacker can't DDoS your IP and render CloudFlare obsolete. By putting your server behind CloudFlare their IPs are exposed to the outside…
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