it's trusted_networks -- SpamAssassin doesn't know that it can
trust mail.cs.uni-sb.de.

--j.

decoder writes:
> today I saw a strange SPF bug occuring. The original mail header was:
> 
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: from mail.cs.uni-sb.de (mail.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.200])
>     by wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id
> k7T8rU6P012050;
>     Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:53:30 +0200
> Received: from mail-eur1.microsoft.com (mail-eur1.microsoft.com
> [213.199.128.139])
>     by mail.cs.uni-sb.de (8.13.8/2006081400) with ESMTP id k7T8rT98004989;
>     Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:53:29 +0200 (CEST)
> Received: from xxxxx.europe.corp.microsoft.com ([65.53.193.xxx]) by
> mail-eur1.microsoft.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
>      Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:53:29 +0100
> 
> (Some unrelated privacy details replaced with xxx).
> 
> Now what SPF should do is (as far as I understood):
> 
> - - Get the mail server that sent this (mail-eur1.microsoft.com)
> - - Check that its IP is in the allowed SPF record of microsoft.com
> 
> This check passes as you can see here:
> http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/spf.ch?server=microsoft.com&ip=213.199.128.139
> 
> Now SpamAssassin did something else, it took mail.cs.uni-sb.de as the
> mailserver that sent, and tried to match it against microsoft.com's
> SPF records which produced a SOFTFAIL:
> 
>  1.4 SPF_SOFTFAIL           Sending host does not match SPF-record
> (softfail)
> [SPF failed: Please see
> http://www.openspf.org/why.html?sender=xxx%40microsoft.com&ip=134.96.254.200&receiver=This%20account%20is%20currently%20not%20available]
>  2.4 SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL      HELO-Name does not match SPF-record
>                 (softfail)
> [SPF failed: Please see
> http://www.openspf.org/why.html?sender=xxx%40microsoft.com&ip=134.96.254.200&receiver=This%20account%20is%20currently%20not%20available]
> 
> Can someone explain me this failure?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Chris
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