Thx Eric.  

I also think it should have been received, and am puzzled why this
particular domain is being dropped.

Is there a quick how to on getting basic spamdyke up and running?

Helmut

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Shubert [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 5:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: SPF, rejects, etc

On 05/09/2011 04:30 PM, Helmut Fritz wrote:
> Hello!
> I am having an issue with one domain sending emails to my toaster.  I 
> am running latest versions which have been upgraded occasionally, 
> original install is via QMT-ISO; currently up to date on all regularly 
> distributed packages per QMT Plus update check.
>
> This particular domain, lightcraftoutdoor.com, does not have an SPF
record.
> No matter, my spfbehavior entry was 3.  So it should never get a fail.  
> But it could connect to my smtp server, get a sender accepted but then 
> get no further (no more entries in the log, as if it just dies):
>
> @400000004dc7d7d42033c064 tcpserver: pid 27499 from 64.98.42.52
> @400000004dc7d7d4203500b4 tcpserver: ok 27499
> php4.phpwebservices.com:209.234.190.114:25 :64.98.42.52::33982 
> @400000004dc7d7d43b72a69c CHKUSER accepted sender: from 
> <[email protected]::>  remote 
> <smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com:unknown:64.98.42.52>  rcpt<>  : sender 
> accepted @400000004dc7d7d81889557c tcpserver: end 27499 status 0
>
> Normally smtp would continue on with a CHKUSER accepted rcpt:<blah, 
> blah> found existing recipient.  Not so with this sending domain - 
> tcpserver just dies as apparently indicated in the log snip posted 
> above.  I can also not find any further entries in logs to indicate 
> what happens, but eventually the sender does get a kicked back message 
> stating spf lookup failure.  So this begs some questions:
>
> 1. With an spfbehavior setting of 3, should the server still not be 
> allowed to transmit since there is no spf record?  Changing the 
> setting to 0 does in fact allow emails to be received.  Another host 
> with no SPF record, with the setting at 3, is allowed to send mail to 
> my server.  This is empirical data
> - tested today with the IT admin from the offending domain.

I believe it should have been accepted.
See http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Spfbehavior
Could be a (rare?) bug of some sort. I've had some problems with SPF in the
past. I thought I had backed off to spfbehavior 1, but I see that I'm also
running with 3 now. Perhaps was changed with an update, but I don't rightly
know.

> 2. How in the heck do I increase smtp logging (or should I increase 
> other
> logging?) to see more of what is going on?  Did a couple of searches 
> and could not really find anything definitive.

You can use the recordio program (see
http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/FAQs#How_do_I_use_recordio_to_diagnos
e_problems.3F),
but a better way is to use spamdyke's full-log-dir feature.

> Thx.
>
> Helmut
>
> P.S.  Is the list really this quiet right now?  Or did I bork my mail 
> server with setting up my own SPF record and changing settings for 
> testing?  I only see one message over the weekend.
>

It's just been quiet lately. I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. :)

--
-Eric 'shubes'


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