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Mail not incoming from SPF designated Server

Mail works fine on our OSX Server 10.7.5 and the DNS for the domian name is OK, has been for a year :-) work great.

We have a new website designed for us, and the web site hosting server for the website is sending email as noreply@ourdomain.com, to: info@ourdomain.com and the enquirers email@address.

We have an SPF TXT record setup to allow the web hosting server, it's smtp domain, and it's IP to send mail as @ourdomain.com.

That SPF TXT record and syntax checks out fine using various tools, and our domain name host says AOK too on their ZONE file.

Problem is emails sent from the web hosting server never arrive at info@ourdomain.com.

Everyone else gets the emails, but not our mail server :-(

Help ! (in plain English please)

Thank you,

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Server

Posted on Nov 23, 2012 8:24 AM

16 replies

Nov 29, 2012 3:23 AM in response to pterobyte

Thank you Alex !

I asked the senders web server manager to give me a copy of all their logs for November...

Turn out that they found they had not configured it quiet right and emails were only being sent locally to the server not externally.

So Alex, your logic and help as ever was Perfect !

Thank you :-)

James.

Mail not incoming from SPF designated Server

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