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|    Marco Moock to All    |
|    Re: Mimecast Email Trouble    |
|    06 Sep 25 10:45:24    |
      From: mm@dorfdsl.de              On 06.09.2025 00:01 Uhr Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:              > So staff at my client send an email to this customer (actually a       > reply to a previous email from them) from their own domain, which has       > an SPF record. Mimecast receives the mail, does something or other to       > it (I have no idea what, and no interest in finding out), and tries       > to pass it on to outlook.com.       >        > outlook.com sees the sender address for that mail is at my client’s        > domain. Checking the corresponding SPF record, they see that nobody       > is authorized to send mail from that domain other than my client’s       > own machines (of course). So the mail forwarded from Mimecast gets       > rejected.       >        > Should my client (and myself) have to worry about internal mail       > screwups at other companies? Seems to me, if this lot want to use       > both mimecast.com and outlook.com, they need to have some way to tell       > their outlook.com service to accept any and all mail forwarded from       > mimecast.com.              That domain has a crap configuration. If they want to route their mail       from mimecast to outlook, they need to configure outlook.com to ignore       SPF fails.              --        kind regards       Marco              Send spam to 1757109701muell@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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