[e-mail] - Does it work?

Question

I have several Google Apps clients for your domains, each of which has an SPF record, for example:

Hostname:
@

TXT data:
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

Many of them were set up over the course of a few months, not to mention the typical 48-hour DNS update period. When sending an email:

[e-mail]

I am returning PASS to SPF from all domains. However - when sending an email:

[e-mail]

I get a mail delivery message as follows:

 Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: [e-mail] Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.7.1 <[e-mail]>: Recipient address rejected: SPF Tests: Mail-From Result="pass": Mail From="[e-mail]" HELO name="mail-yi0-f45.google.com" HELO Result="none" Remote IP="209.85.218.45" (state 14). ----- Original message ----- Received: by 10.150.204.10 with SMTP id b10mr1415096ybg.340.1296170820591; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:27:00 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.51.18 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:26:40 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Moschini <[e-mail]> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:26:40 -0800 Message-ID: <[e-mail]> Subject: Test4 To: [e-mail] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd2e71a546250049adc49bb 

Answer 1

By design, an error is returned when sending an email to [e-mail]. The error message is what the result contains, regardless of whether your test worked or not. Mail-From Result = "pass": this is an indication that your test passed SPF when sending mail. See the full docs about all of this here: http://www.openspf.org/Tools