According to my understanding of the way SPF works the following message
should not be failing.  Can anyone tell me why this failed?


Here's the pertinent parts of the log:
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Apr 11 15:00:18 maildrop postgrey[2407]: request:
client_address=66.179.38.26 client_name=hamhock-outbound.hoovers.com
etrn_domain= helo_name=hamhock.hoovers.com
instance=7dbd.461d3042.a4146.0 protocol_name=ESMTP protocol_state=RCPT
queue_id= [EMAIL PROTECTED] recipient_count=0
request=smtpd_access_policy
reverse_client_name=hamhock-outbound.hoovers.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] size=18654 action=PREPEND X-Greylist: delayed
1063 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at maildrop.domain.com; Wed, 11 Apr 2007
 15:00:18 EDT 

Apr 11 15:00:18 maildrop amavisd[32198]: (32198-06) ESMTP< MAIL
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=18654\r\n

Apr 11 15:00:18 maildrop amavisd[32198]: (32198-06) lookup
(debug_sender) => undef, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" does not match

Apr 11 15:00:18 maildrop amavisd[32198]: (32198-06) ESMTP> 250 2.1.0
Sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK

Apr 11 15:00:18 maildrop amavisd[32198]: (32198-06) ESMTP::10024
/var/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20070411T141549-32198: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ->
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=18654 Received: from maildrop.domain.com
([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (maildrop.domain.com [127.0.0.1])
(amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 11
Apr 2007 15:00:18 -0400 (EDT)

Apr 11 15:00:19 maildrop amavisd[32198]: (32198-06) Checking:
pOlR15g8xTwO [66.179.38.26] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ->
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Apr 11 15:00:33 maildrop amavisd[32198]: (32198-06) SPAM,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yes, score=9.243 tag=3
tag2=6.31 kill=6.31 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, EXTRA_MPART_TYPE=1.091,
HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SARE_GIF_ATTACH=0.75, SPF_HELO_FAIL=10],
autolearn=no, quarantine pOlR15g8xTwO (spam-quarantine)

Apr 11 15:00:33 maildrop amavisd[32198]: (32198-06) one_response_for_all
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: REJECTs, '554 5.7.0 Reject, id=32198-06 - SPAM'


Here's the SPF record for hoovers.com:
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hoovers.com     text = "v=spf1 ip4:66.179.38.0/23 ip4:66.45.81.128/27
ip4:66.45.81.160/27 ip4:66.179.85.192/27 ip4:216.234.248.64/26
ip4:216.234.248.78 ip4:216.234.248.82 ip4:66.162.217.59 mx ptr
a:exchange.hoovers.com a:mail.eca.com include:dartmail.net ~all"


The sending server is hamhock-outbound.hoovers.com [66.179.38.26] and
that IP address is within the range listed in the first SPF entry.  Why
did this fail?

Thanks!

Ken Morley
JM Technology Group

Ken -AT- jmtg.com

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