I am trying to setup a very basic SPF record. I am hosting my website on Godaddy and using Godaddy's email servers. I am using the php mail() call (I know, I've read a ton of places to use PHP Mailer, or others, but I am choosing to the default mail() function and thats not really my question). Right now the spf record in the email is coming back as neutral
with the following lines:
Delivered-To: person@gmail.com
Received: by 10.52.171.166 with SMTP id av6csp133324vdc;
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:43:23 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.49.104.180 with SMTP id gf20mr2338989qeb.59.1373985802775;
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:43:22 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <noreply@onlineserver.cc>
Received: from p3nlsmtp14.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3nlsmtp14.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net. [72.167.234.239])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d19si710455qey.143.2013.07.16.07.43.22
for <person@gmail.com>;
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:43:22 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 72.167.234.239 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of noreply@onlineserver.cc) client-ip=72.167.234.239;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=neutral (google.com: 72.167.234.239 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of noreply@onlineserver.cc) smtp.mail=noreply@onlineserver.cc
Received: from P3NW8SHG339 ([184.168.27.44])
by p3nlsmtp14.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with
id 12jN1m0080x5yNo012jNyX; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:43:22 -0700
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:43:21 -0700
Subject: Little Jaws Big Smiles Registration Confirmation
X-PHP-Originating-Id: [10610735]
To: "Person" <person@gmail.com>
From: "Little Jaws Big Smiles" <no-reply@littlejawsbigsmiles.com>
Reply-To: "Little Jaws Big Smiles" <no-reply@littlejawsbigsmiles.com>
Return-Path: "Little Jaws Big Smiles" <no-reply@littlejawsbigsmiles.com>
Message-ID: <51e55c0a.f351310a.61d2.ffffe3a0SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
X-Mailer: PHP/5.2.17
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Organization: Little Jaws Big Smiles
The ip 72.167.234.239
corresponds to p3nlsmtp14.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
, which I'm guessing is the mail server actually sending my email.
- I have an A (Host) record setup with my actual IP address of the domain.
- I have the default CNAME (alias) list that was supplied
- I have two MX (Mail Exchanger records) that were supplied
- mailstore1.secureserver.net
- smtp.secureserver.net
- There are two default name servers setup
- ns45.domaincontrol.com
- ns46.domaincontrol.com
- I've setup the TXT SPF record in the following manner (no quotes because thats how godaddy has you enter it):
v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:72.167.234.245 -all
However this still results in a neutral SPF result. I have waited 48 hours for the record to take action. I have also read the SPF Syntax
and I think I've set it up appropriately (but I've never done this before, so I could be completely misunderstanding this)
I have also tried kitterman's validation script with the following result:
Found v=spf1 record for littlejawsbigsmiles.com: v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:72.167.234.245 -all
evaluating... SPF record passed validation test with pySPF (Python SPF library)!
Does anyone see a problem with my record definition or if I am missing anything else?
I am attempting to send mail from no-reply@littlejawsbigsmiles.com
Let me know if I need to provide any other information.
Update Per @TheCleaner's request, I followed the instructions on Godaddys site to creating the SPF record. Below are the steps and options I choose with why I selected them.
Under To Add an SPF Record
- Step 4: I selected
GoDaddy.com, LLC only
- I am only sending emails using their servers
- Step 5: I selected
All Inbound Servers May Send Mail
- I am not sure this applies to me, but I selected it just in case it does
- Step 6: I did not select Outbound records.
- My domain is not a mail server
- Step 7: I did not select PTR
- My domain is not a mail server
- Step 8: I added
72.167.234.0/24
since this appears to be the mail servers Godaddy uses to send out emails - I also selected
Exclude all hosts not specified here
which adds-all
The result SPF record is below. I will try this and post back if this fixes my issues. Please let me know if my assumptions about my steps above are incorrect.
v=spf1 mx include:72.167.234.0/24 -all