I mean, SPF can't pass if there is no SPF record, so the error message is
correct... but a more specific one for the reason SPF failed could be
useful, I guess.

And it's not 100% required yet, but it's been trending that way for a while.

Brandon

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 10:05 PM Jarland Donnell via mailop <
[email protected]> wrote:

> It was purely observational, I thought others had already noticed it. It
> consumed a lot of support time on our side. Maybe I'll try to pull the
> data to get a better idea of how it looked by the numbers.
>
> On 2022-08-27 22:28, Darrell Budic via mailop wrote:
> > Was there any published notification about this? Not that there’s a
> > good place for it, but between mailop and nanog, I’d have thought I’d
> > have seen it…
> >
> > At any rate, this error message seems like it would be better as
> > “Gmail now requires senders to have SPF and/or DKIM enabled to send
> > mail to Gmail” instead of saying it failed checks. Less misleading
> > that way, and I’m not saying to my customer “I don’t know why it says
> > that, you don’t seem to have SPF setup…”
> >
> > I mean, yay for more correct SPF, but boo for bad error messages.
> >
> >> On Aug 27, 2022, at 5:28 PM, Jarland Donnell via mailop
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Google has recent started requiring SPF. I don't know if they require
> >> it 100% of the time but they do now reject emails from domains that
> >> either don't have it, or have it improperly configured, and they won't
> >> accept it from those domains until it's fixed. It has helped me a good
> >> bit, making it easier to identify my customers that are violating my
> >> policy and sending without valid SPF.
> >>
> >> At least, by this point, we should be able to say that everyone has
> >> had an opportunity to at least adopt SPF. Anyone who doesn't, by now,
> >> generally doesn't care about their delivery quality.
> >>
> >> On 2022-08-27 17:09, Darrell Budic via mailop wrote:
> >>> Anyone else seeing this? Customer of mine just got some bounces from
> >>> gmail for invalid SPF/DKIM. He doesn’t have either, so I’m not
> >>> sure what this is about?
> >>> Mind you, I did send him to setup a valid SPF entry, and
> >>> authentication is good, but this seems like a misleading error
> >>> message...
> >>>> The mail system
> >>>> <[email protected]>: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
> >>>> [1][142.251.4.27] said:
> >>>> 550-5.7.26 This message does not pass authentication checks (SPF
> >>>> and DKIM
> >>>> both 550-5.7.26 do not pass). SPF check for [musichael.com [2]]
> >>>> does not pass
> >>>> with ip: 550-5.7.26 [204.130.133.20].To best protect our users
> >>>> from spam,
> >>>> the message 550-5.7.26 has been blocked. Please visit 550-5.7.26
> >>>> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#authentication for
> >>>> more 550
> >>>> 5.7.26 information.
> >>>> b185-20020a2567c2000000b006953ea7fad6si1842767ybc.571 -
> >>>> gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command)
> >>>> Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.ohgnetworks.com [3]
> >>>> X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 358D21F4D4
> >>>> X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; [email protected]
> >>>> Arrival-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:10:52 +0000 (UTC)
> >>> Links:
> >>> ------
> >>> [1] http://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
> >>> [2] http://musichael.com
> >>> [3] http://smtp.ohgnetworks.com
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