What's an SPF Record?

Re:What's an SPF Record? by endgame on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:16PM (#26084743)

I moved my mail away from Google last year, and can no longer accept people's calendar invites. It seems that the "Yes"/"No"/"Maybe" links in the email body of a calendar invite cause Google's (or whoever's) servers to spoof an email in my name, which predictably fails if my SPF is set strictly. I have not been able to find a good workaround for this.

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Re:What's an SPF Record? by fjni on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:22PM (#26085417)

I had something similar so perhaps this helps:

If you still have a google account that has the “calendar” feature enabled, this will lead to google sending invite acceptance emails.

Especially if you have a business account (which was my experience,) where you verified the domain.

The solution for me was to disable “calendar” as a service on the entire account.

Realize that “google calendar” and “google mail,” are technically distinct services. However that doesn’t seem to stop “calendar” from sending emails on your behalf.

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Re:What's an SPF Record? by behringer on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:50PM (#26085554)

couldn't you just add google as an approved sender for your domain?

https://dmarcly.com/blog/spf-dkim-dmarc-set-up-guide-for-g-s...

I doubt google will send out spam on your domain.

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Re:What's an SPF Record? by chalst on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:42AM (#26086547)

I added them as neutral (the '?' character) rather than an allowed domain: I don't want to have to understand Google's mailing policy when assessing the risk of my site being downgraded.

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