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Just setup my spf record on my server and getting confused.

I send an email from my now spf secured address (example@emailwithspf) to my gmail account (example@gmail), check the headers and it shows SPF worked and passed (Received-SPF: pass (google.com: xxxx etc) which is great and what i wanted...

However, i send an email from the same account (example@emailwithspf) to another email address of mine (example2@emailwithspf) and check the headers, it doesnt even show that it used or received the spf?

Any idea why? Do only certain servers check against spf?

FoxyFish
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  • SPF is pointless on internal-only email. – Marc B Oct 01 '13 at 21:43
  • You mean like same address to same address but with different user accounts? – FoxyFish Oct 01 '13 at 21:45
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    example@spf -> example2@spf would stay within the same server, so what's the point of certifying that it came from the same place it's going to? – Marc B Oct 01 '13 at 21:45
  • Well there isnt a point really, i just wanted to test that it was working and only had limited accounts to send test mail to, so as long as it worked to the gmail account, its working yeah? – FoxyFish Oct 01 '13 at 21:48
  • most likely, yah. easy enough to set up other accounts (yahoo, hotmail, etc...) to test those as well. – Marc B Oct 01 '13 at 21:50
  • Thanks, one last thing. Would you switch over to hardfail(-all) instead of softfail(~all) if it all works fine and passes the tests? – FoxyFish Oct 01 '13 at 22:15
  • can't answer that... depends on your policies and how tolerant you can be of false rejections/acceptances – Marc B Oct 02 '13 at 14:19

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