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Re: [qmailtoaster] Email forwarding + SPF records.

Maxwell Smart
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:06:45 -0800

You have to enter an SPF include on the leanservers.com that it's OK to
accept mail from bluehost.  

/Here's what you can do:/ Contact the leanservers.com postmaster
<mailto:postmas...@leanservers.com> and tell them that they need to
change leanservers.com's SPF record so that it *authorizes*
outbound-mail-70.bluehost.com. For example, they could change the record
to something like

    v=spf1 a mx a:outbound-mail-70.bluehost.com -all

CJ

On 02/03/2010 09:00 AM, Unai Rodriguez wrote:
> Dear CJ,
>
> Thank you so much for your response.
>
> I am not sure if I made clear that the server throwing the error is
> the "forwarder" which is not under my control (that is the one hosted
> on an ISP -- bluehost.com).
>
> I only control the 3rd "entity" (recipient):
>
> [SENDER] -> [FORWARDER] -> [RECIPIENT]
> (anyone) -> (bluehost)  -> (u-journal.org or gmail.com)
>
> What I do not understand is why if the RECIPIENT is GMAIL everything
> is fine while if it is U-JOURNAL.ORG FORWARDER complains about the SPF
> record on SENDER?
>
> Thank you so much again.
>
> unai
>
>
> On 2/4/10 12:14 AM, Maxwell Smart wrote:
>> You will need to add the leanservers.com to your includes and it should
>> work fine.  This is just an SPF issue.
>>
>> On 02/03/2010 08:10 AM, Unai Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Facts:
>>>
>>> - I am running qmailtoaster under OpenSuse 11.0 (last pakages for
>>> suse not
>>> the very latest available for centos)
>>> - I have 2 domains: u-journal.org, spanisharmada.sg
>>> - u-journal.org is hosted on my qmailtoaster server
>>> - spanisharmada.sg is hosted on an ISP (bluehost.com)
>>> - confirmati...@spanisharmada.sg is a (email) forward to
>>> m...@u-journal.org
>>> (and some others)
>>>
>>> Now when some email addresses send emails to
>>> confirmati...@spanisharmada.sg they get an error (i.e. SPF violation):
>>>
>>> ==========================================================================
>>>
>>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at outbound-mail-70.bluehost.com.
>>> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
>>> addresses.
>>> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>>>
>>> <m...@u-journal.org>:
>>> 173.45.79.108 does not like recipient.
>>> Remote host said: 550 See
>>> http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=unai%40leanservers.com&ip=69.89.21.30&receiver=mail
>>>
>>> (#5.7.1)
>>> Giving up on 173.45.79.108.
>>> ==========================================================================
>>>
>>>
>>> I am also handling the domain leanservers.com and could certainly allow
>>> bluehost.com to send emails (include:bluehost.com) but... what if other
>>> people send emails and their SPF just do not allow bluehost.com?
>>>
>>> What really puzzles me is that if I change the redirection of
>>> confirmati...@spanisharmada.sg to x...@gmail.com the SPF error does not
>>> occur.
>>>
>>> How come it works for gmail? I do not understand since the one who is
>>> suppose to be violating the SPF is the forwarding which is the same for
>>> u-journal.org and gmail.com. I noticed gmail has this SPF: "v=spf1
>>> redirect=_spf.google.com".
>>>
>>> Any thoughts/pointers? Is this a pure SPF issue, gmail or qmailtoaster?
>>>
>>> Thank you so much!
>>>
>>> With Best Wishes,
>>> Unai Rodriguez
>>>
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