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Trying to authenticate using custom domain through Gmail
I set up a custom domain for our PTA (roosevelt-pta.org) using namecheap.com. We needed more professional email addresses than what was available through gmail, so I set some up for all of our board ...
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How to setup SPF record with Hover/Digital Ocean?
I'm trying to setup SPF record and I followed some tutorials but I'm a bit confused. My email and website domain is hosted on Hover and the files of my website are hosted on Digital Ocean. My domain ...
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Cloudflare and cPanel 'Deliverability Checker' both indicate SPF & DKIM records are valid but spam checkers insist the records don't exist. Thoughts?
Getting support for this issue is tricky since my DNS provider can't see my hosting info and my hosting provider can't see my DNS record configuration. I'm hoping that some DNS record pros can help me ...
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Postmaster: DMARC PASS, DKIM PASS, SPF FAIL, on postmaster
We are setting up our domain to meet gmails new policy.
Our company domain passed DMARC and DKIM but failing SPF on postmaster.
The success rate of SPF is 0%.
The header of the received emails from ...
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Setting up DKIM, SPF, and DMARC Records for Domains that You Won't Use for Email
I have a few domains out there that are never used for email. If you look at the domains, you'll know the company. This makes me wonder, should I set up DMARC, DKIM, and SPF for these domains even ...
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Yahoo rejecting email after registrar change
I recently changed registrars and DNS location from Tucows to Cloudflare for one of my domains. During the change, Cloudflare copied my existing DNS records including SPF, DMARC and DKIM keys. The ...
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How to get SPF and TXT record for mail?
On a new site development I need to establish email for a splash page. Currently I have a domain from one company (will call Company1), using Netlify or GitHub pages for hosting the site, and using an ...
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Can I replace rua entry with ruf in DMARC record?
I currently have a DMARC record set up like this:
v=DMARC1; p=none; fo=1; rua=mailto:[email protected] but I am receiving a lot of reports everyday.
I would like to only receive failure reports (...
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Gsuite - Mailed-by and from. How to have a mailed-by as subdomain but the from is the primary domain - in gSuite (Gmail)
I want to have my email "from" to be from my primary email (gSuite), adn the mailed-by be from my subdomain (which I have added to my Gsuite account). Is this possible in GSuite? I know ...
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Is DMARC relaxed alignment for SPF/DKIM bad?
After studying authentication mechanisms available to prevent e-mail spoofing, still I don't understand how to choose between the relaxed alignment and the strict alignment in DMARC for SPF and DKIM, ...
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Webform Email Does Not Pass DMARC
I am setting up DMARC, SPF and DKIM records for the first time. I'm using WordPress, Elementor, SiteGround, and Google Workspace.
When submitting a Form from my website, sent from arandomemail@mysite....
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Gratis email boxes filter my contact form emails ; local email box doesn't ; but what if I want a domain registrar email box? [closed]
My domain registrar and my hosting provider are not the same company.
On my shared hosting environment with CentOS, Bash, Apache, PHP and MySQL I host an all core MediaWiki website with a CMS-agnostic ...
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When moving my web hosting but keeping mail hosting, how do I change the SPF TXT DNS record with an IP address?
My website was previously on a windows server A with ip 79.137.24.248 but my mail server was on a Linux hosting with ip of 185.81.99.111. There were three DNS record that were connecting these two ...
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SPF: Sender Policy Framework (Too many included lookups)
Issue: I don't understand SPF well enough to know where to post this question
Goal: Figure out how to include more than 10 valid senders to my SPF record
I currently have a warning on my SPF record ...
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SPF record when outgoing mail server is on the same IP as the web server
We have been happily using Zoho as an email provider for years, but recently we noticed we we're getting a lot of emails being bounced as "blocked" at our client's ends.
After investigating it seem ...
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DMARC report: systematic SPF failure for a domain
I get DMARC reports sent from various different sources.
All of the reports generally have <result>pass</result> for all of the sections.
However, the reports from Google always have SPF ...
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Too Many Included SPF Lookups
I used a DNS lookup tool on my website and did an SPF record lookup as well and discovered that I have "too many included lookups." I understand the limit is 10, but it looks to me like I'm only using ...
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SPF Record for Google Domains Email Forwarding
I've got a domain setup with Google Domains. I'm using CloudFlare for the name servers and I have the correct MX records setup (https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9428703) to point back to ...
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How to determine Sender Score IP to look up if straight query fails?
I'm checking up on my email set-up and came across Sender Score as part of my research and tests.
We are sending email through Outlook's mail server. Our original mailfrom domain is fieldworkhub.com. ...
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Why is google.com trying to send emails from my domain?
I pulled up a DMARC Analyzer report showing emails received on behalf of my domain:
In addition to my normal authorized (SPF+DKIM aligned) personal emails from the protonmail.ch domain, there are ...
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Spam emails from my domain
Do spam spoof emails pretending to be sent from your domain which SoftFail SPF verification hurt your domain's reputation with spam filters?
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Can anyone spoof my Email address with mailgun if I'm using it?
I'm using mailgun as kind of a sandbox for my personal/portfolio site. I've got all the required and optional records, including an SPF record allowing mailgun.org origin emails.
I recently got an ...
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Nested SPF records fail to validate
I am trying to work with the lookup budget and dealing with a web host that also sends out email on behalf of the domain for various services who does not keep a tidy SPF itself. I have not ever run ...
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DMARC failure on forwarded SharePoint Online emails
I have a client that uses SharePoint Online but insists on using Gmail. Each user has a O365 account with an Exchange Online mailbox and mail flow/delivery options are set to forward all incoming mail ...
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SPF and DKIM vs email forwarding addresses: how to avoid being rejected as spam? [closed]
Situation: I am sending emails from [email protected] to [email protected]. My DNS for mydomain.com is correctly configured with an SPF record. The recipient at example.org is able to receive my emails ...
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For creation of an appropriate SPF record, how can I find the IP address of the mail server used by a WordPress website on cPanel?
I have a WordPress website that is sending emails to me through a contact form. The From address in the emails uses the same domain name of the website.
Currently the emails are being treated as spam,...
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How do email spam filters tell if a spam email was maliciously sent with intent to shutdown a real email address?
So for example, let's say we have a legitimate user from "[email protected]" who sends real emails. However, there is a malicious individual who is using their own server or some other email service ...
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my website can no longer send email and I didn't even change the code [duplicate]
After receiving reports from my website assistant that he was unable to receive email resulting from a user performing an action that would generate an email to him, I decided to test a function on my ...
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How to Configure SPF or SRV Record on EntryDNS.net?
I'm trying to use EntryDNS.net for my DNS records and the A, CNAME and MX records weren't a problem but I cannot get my SPF (txt) record to work or my SRV records. Does anyone else use them and have ...
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SPF and ISP authentication
I'm wondering if I have to include the SPF of any ISP used by my customers to send email with an email hosted on my server.
Example : they use Bell to send email for [email protected] (where ...
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Are SPF and DKIM records needed when the SMTP IP is marked as a subscriber block?
I have been searching around, but not sure of all the facts I need. Let me explain.
I have stayed out of the SMTP game for a while and have become ignorant of the newer developments.
Prior to my ...
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"CNAME record already exists in the zone" when creating SPF txt records
I am setting up mailgun.com to use with my website.
But when I add dns record with type txt name www.example.com and value v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all
as suggested in mailgun setup:
I get the ...
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DMARC: SPF Fail, DKIM Pass, Source IP: not mine!
This is an odd one:
<record>
<row>
<source_ip>65.20.0.12</source_ip>
<count>2</count>
<policy_evaluated>
<...
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Do SPF and DKIM TXT records require quotes?
I have been searching for some hours now, but multiple sources say different things.
https://support.wordfly.com/hc/en-us/articles/204767474-How-do-we-publish-DKIM-and-SPF-in-our-DNS-
States I should ...
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Where to place the SPF records and Google Apps DKIM on a multidomain website?
We're having issues with spam filters with our emails. They're not being received by our clients about half of the time. We decided to make sure the SPF and DKIM are correctly set.
Suppose I have a ...
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SPF, Domainkey, DKIM do not work in plesk 12
I followed tons of online tutorials, guides and even the post here about setting up SPF records in Plesk 11.
I'm using plesk 12 on Ubuntu 12. I have set the following:
*.webmail.gecab.nl. CNAME ...
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How do I add an spf for a Postmark App sender signature when there's an existing spf record?
I'm using the Postmark App service ( https://postmarkapp.com/) to handle the transactional mail delivery for my web app and I set up a sender signature email address ( [email protected] ) for it ...
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Sent emails pass SPF and DKIM, but fail DMARC when received by Gmail
Gmail is marking my email messages as Spam. The messages pass SPF and DKIM, but fail DMARC. Is there some way to make my messages pass DMARC?
I recently signed up for WordPress hosting at Flywheel, ...
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1and1.com SPF records with 3rd party DNS
Putting this out there in case it helps someone else. My Google results on this didn't yield any direct hits.
I needed a cheap replacement email host, and picked 1and1.com. I rapidly found that ...
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Setting Up SPF Records on Plesk 11
I see that Plesk 11 automatically sets up an SPF Record - however when I test it on a number of eMail Spam Test services I see that it is not being detected.
v=spf1 +a +mx -all
What changes do I ...
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TXT vs SPF record for Google servers SPF record, either or both?
According to Google’s documentation,
https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723
It clearly says Create a TXT record containing this text: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
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