Are your MX and SMTP servers are on different IP address ?<br><br>If yes<br><br>Then add your SMTP server IP address in SPF record. Which will just indicate that MX's as well as SMTP are allowed to send mail with from address as
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Josh Dayberry</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@thematthewsgroup.com">lists@thematthewsgroup.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For someone reason when someone send an e-mail (including myself) with smtp<br>auth, the e-mail is scanned, then sent to the recipient, the SPF tests will<br>fail on my server's copy of mailscanner because the e-mail appears to be
<br>from the users computer not the server, but after the e-mail has been<br>delivered to another server, it no longer appears as being sent from only<br>the users computer so the SPF tests pass.<br><br>The SPF tests are my primary concern because they are the greatest source of
<br>false positives, but ultimately I would rather just not scan e-mails sent<br>from users who as authenticated.<br><br>Thanks again,<br>Josh Dayberry<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info">
mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info">mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>] On Behalf Of Alex Neuman<br>Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:21 PM
<br>To: MailScanner discussion<br>Subject: Re: SPF Scans on outgoing mail<br><br>Josh Dayberry escribió:<br>><br>> Here is my problem. I have many mobile users of my server. When they<br>> send e-mail their e-mail fails the SPF tests and their IP is submitted
<br>> for RBL tests and things of that sort. However, all users with the<br>> ability to send e-mail on my server should not have their e-mail<br>> scanned at all. Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to
<br>> stop MailScanner from scanning e-mail received from users who<br>> authenticate. Any ideas would be appreciated.<br>><br>> Josh Dayberry<br>><br>> <a href="mailto:josh@thematthewsgroup.com">josh@thematthewsgroup.com
</a><br>><br>The mobile users aren't using your server; they're using someone else's<br>server to send out e-mail that should be going out of your server.<br><br>Your SPF record is showing the following:<br><br>"v=spf1 a mx -all"
<br><br>Which means only your MX's are allowed to send mail out as<br><a href="http://thematthewsgroup.com">thematthewsgroup.com</a>; if your users are *actually* connecting to your<br>server, and they're authenticating themselves properly (not using
<br>POP-before-SMTP but *actual* SMTP AUTH), then your SPF checks should<br>work, in theory. All of mine do.<br><br>What are you using for SPF? In the meantime you can add "~all" instead<br>of "-all" to mitigate (not eliminate) the problem while you find out
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