SPF soft fail

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quicklyweb

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I am having a bit of issue with exim and SPF. Server IP is 84.45.98.60 but when i test SPf i get soft fail as Exim is using 84.45.40.106 for outgoing email. I checked exim.conf and there is no IP' defined. I don't know what i am missing here hostname is vanilla.quicklyweb.net and rdns is set as well. there is no custom settings in exim.conf so really puzzled :(
 
I still don't get it. Why i am getting SPF soft fail and rejection from yahoo, hotmail and AOL?
 
Thank you for the response but SPF records are set for each domain on the server in DNS records as "v=spf1 a mx ip4:84.45.98.60 -all"
 
Make sure that 84.45.40.106 is either your A record or MX record or else you need to add it as an allowed ip in the spf record.
 
84.45.40.106 is a static IP assigned to another client on the server. Servers default IP is 84.45.98.60. So i am really puzzled why the server is sending email from 84.45.40.106 instead of 84.45.98.60. I checked hostname dns records and ip ending with 106 is not listed in there. And it is not listed in records of the domain i am sending the email from. Really puzzled with this.:confused:
 
I edited exim.conf and added following line to fix the issue temporarily.

interface = 84.45.98.60

that fixed the SPF.
Quick checklist
RDNS okay
SPF okay
IP is not blacklisted by any spamhouse

And yahoo still rejects emails. I am going to get drunk may be ican work out what is going wrong then...
 
For some reason, exim thinks your main IP# is 84.45.40.106, but you say you've assigned that to a user. So adding the interface should resolve the problem as exim will send all email through 84.45.98.60.

Jeff
 
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