On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Homer Wilson Smith wrote:

> Running Fedora Core 3, postfix 2.1.5, spf 2.007

You should upgrade Postfix.

> Remote customer an...@thumpernet.com sends e-mail to
> ho...@lightlink.com via our incoming mail server at
> smtp0.lightlink.com which is running the above mentioned software.
> 
> dig thumpernet.com mx shows mail.thumpernet.com at 71.176.110.29 which
> is correct.
> 
> dig thumpernet.com txt shows "v=spf1 mx -all" which is also correct.
> 
> Yet mail from his mx to our mail server is refused by the spf code as
> shown below.  The web page at openspf says "we got no clue why".

This has nothing to do with Postfix.

> Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance to all.

Seek help on the appropriate mailing list.

> main.cf and master.cf posted below.

In the future, when you *do* have a Postfix problem, never paste the
contents of main.cf; instead, show the output of 'postconf -n'.  Please
also read the DEBUG_README (it is a document to which you were linked
upon joining this mailing list).

> 27 14:16:58 smtp0 postfix/policy-spf[2492]: Attribute:
> sender=an...@thumpernet.com Sep 27 14:16:58 smtp0
> postfix/policy-spf[2492]: : SPF fail (Mechanism '-all' matched):
> HELO/EHLO: mail.thumpernet.com, IP Address: 71.176.110.29, Recipient:
> ho...@lightlink.com Sep 27 14:16:58 smtp0 postfix/policy-spf[2492]: :
> SPF fail (Mechanism '-all' matched): HELO/EHLO: mail.thumpernet.com
> Sep 27 14:16:58 smtp0 postfix/policy-spf[2492]: handler
> sender_policy_framework: 550 Please see
> http://www.openspf.org/Why?s=helo;id=mail.thumpernet.com;ip=71.176.110.29;r=smtp0.lightlink.com
> Sep 27 14:16:58 smtp0 postfix/policy-spf[2492]: : Policy action=550
> Please see
> http://www.openspf.org/Why?s=helo;id=mail.thumpernet.com;ip=71.176.110.29;r=smtp0.lightlink.com
> Sep 27 14:16:58 smtp0 postfix/smtpd[2465]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
> mail.thumpernet.com[71.176.110.29]: 550 <ho...@lightlink.com>:
> Recipient address rejected: Please see
> http://www.openspf.org/Why?s=helo;id=mail.thumpernet.com;ip=71.176.110.29;r=smtp0.lightlink.com;
> from=<an...@thumpernet.com> to=<ho...@lightlink.com> proto=ESMTP
> helo=<mail.thumpernet.com> Sep 27 14:16:58 smtp0 postfix/smtpd[2465]:
> disconnect from mail.thumpernet.com[71.176.110.29]

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Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>

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