Exchange 2019 Outgoing mail to gmail failure due to SPF record error
Dear Sir,
Customer has an Exchange 2019 organization with 2 Exchange servers (Server name: Ex1 & Ex2) in 1 organization. Email has only 1 domain: domain1.com.
They encountered an SPF return error message when the send out email outgoing from ex2 server only to Gmail. It is fine when the outgoing email to Gmail is from ex1.
Current server setting is:
Server EX1 IP: 1.2.3.4
Server EX2 IP: 5.6.7.8
In nslookup:
Set type=mx
domain1.com
MX: record:
domain1.com MX Preference=0, mail exchanger=mail.domain1.com
domain2.com MX preference=20, mail exchanger=mail2.domain1.com
mail.domain1.com internet address=1.2.3.4
mail2.domain1.com internet address=5.6.7.8
set type=ptr
1.2.3.4
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa name = mail.domain1.com
5.6.7.8
Non-authoritative answer:
8.7.6.5.in-addr.arpa name = mail.domain1.com
set type=txt
domain1.com
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
domain1.com text =
"v=spf1 a mx a:mail.domain1.com a:mail2.domain1.com ip4:1.2.3.4 ip4:5.6.7.8 include:azurance.com ~all
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May I know the SPF record failure due to the PTR record of 5.6.7.8 ? It should be pointing to mail2.domain1.com ? Please suggest.
Joe Tam