MUA, MTA and SPF
"Jesus Duarte" <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:22:59 -0800
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We are a regional ISP in the Pacific Northwest and have hundreds of DSL customers. We run Postfix on our mail servers and we have all of our DSL IPs authorized to send mail without having to use MUA authentication. For those with email accounts with us and not on our network the MUA must authenticate. The problem comes with our network users that are not using SMTP authentication. If they do not authenticate, SPF keys in on the IP of the MUA and gives an SPF error and consequently several customers have their emails bounced. I would think that SPF would key in on the IP of the MTA and not the MUA. All of our MTAs are listed in our SPF RR. My question then, is this an error in SPF checks? If not, is there some sort of "tweak" we are missing in Postfix for authenticating our users within our IP address space short of adding all of those IPs to our SPF record? Or do we need to contact all of our customers and tell them they must use SMTP authentication? OK, that was three questions. ;-) I am hoping to get a hit on a "tweak" in Postfix. Jesus Duarte