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  • keat63
    I guess it did fail SPF
    SPF_SOFTFAIL 1.50 SPF: sender does not match SPF record (softfail)
    But i have soft fail and not hard fail. However, what's worrying is that it looks like it came from something reporting its-self as amazon.com. It didn't come from somedoamin.com, spoofing amazon.com. The headers would indicate that it actually came from Amazon.com. Did the spammers, spoof a whole domain.
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  • cPanelLauren
    It's clearly not from amazon: Received: from v160-251-14-211.ymvq.static.cnode.io ([160.251.14.211]:59327 helo=mail.amazon.com)
    What they did here was change the mail helo to reference mail.amazon.com the actual hostname of the server is v160-251-14-211.ymvq.static.cnode.io They were able to send from amazon in the same way I can add a domain to my server like google.com and make email addresses associated with it. The domain doesn't resolve to that IP address but if I were to send mail and people weren't using any spam defenses it could be received to a user's inbox. I *think* the soft fail result is a result of Amazon's own SPF record indicates a soft fail rather than a hard fail - soft fail = ~all hard fail = -all
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