our implementation does check both A and AAAA records and a quick check
shows SPF passes for email from that domain from that IP.

Brandon

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz>
wrote:

> Huh,
>
> RFC7208, section 5.3 is where I'm coming from...
>
> "
> 5.3.  "a"
>
>    This mechanism matches if <ip> is one of the <target-name>'s IP
>    addresses.  For clarity, this means the "a" mechanism also matches
>    AAAA records.
>
>    a                = "a"      [ ":" domain-spec ] [ dual-cidr-length ]
>
>    An address lookup is done on the <target-name> using the type of
>    lookup (A or AAAA) appropriate for the connection type (IPv4 or
>    IPv6).  The <ip> is compared to the returned address(es).  If any
>    address matches, the mechanism matches.
> "
>
> So that's not how it's implemented?
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 22:44 +0000, Howard F. Cunningham wrote:
> > Steve
> >
> > That is not what the "a" is for.  The "a" uses an A record and is not
> related IPv6 specifically
> >
> > From http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax
> >
> > The "ip6" mechanism (edit)
> > ip6:<ip6-address>
> > ip6:<ip6-network>/<prefix-length>
> > The argument to the "ip6:" mechanism is an IPv6 network range. If no
> prefix-length is given, /128 is assumed (singling out an individual host
> address).
> >
> > Examples:
> >
> > "v=spf1 ip6:1080::8:800:200C:417A/96 -all"
> >
> > Allow any IPv6 address between 1080::8:800:0000:0000 and
> 1080::8:800:FFFF:FFFF.
> > "v=spf1 ip6:1080::8:800:68.0.3.1/96 -all"
> >
> > Allow any IPv6 address between 1080::8:800:0000:0000 and
> 1080::8:800:FFFF:FFFF.
> >
> >
> > Howard Cunningham, MCP
> > howa...@macrollc.com - personal
> > For technical support, send an email to serv...@macrollc.com or call
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Steve
> Holdoway
> > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:36 PM
> > To: Dave Israel
> > Cc: mailop@mailop.org
> > Subject: Re: [mailop] Help. Why are my emails being marked as spam by
> google?
> >
> > On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 18:16 -0400, Dave Israel wrote:
> >
> > > Make sure your mailer is set to use the right ipv6 address as a
> > > source; my v6 servers have a few addresses, and without explicit
> > > configuration, they'd invariably pick the wrong one when sending mail.
> > > That gave me the same symptom you're seeing with google.
> > There's only one enabled, and google is saying it's good with that.
> > >
> > > also: Your spf record is "v=spf1 a mx ip4:120.138.27.178 ~all", which
> > > doesn't look like it ought to be helping for v6.
> > It's my understanding that a includes aaaa with an SPF record. The
> specific IP address is a fallback in case we need to use a separate server
> - irrespective of whether it's in the same domain.
> > >
> > > -Dave
> >
> > If I'm wrong, please let me know!
> >
> >
> > Steve
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