Hi there,

So I have been running my own web server for a long time now and never had problems (knock on wood). As of late I have been getting mail messages stuck in my mail queue. The below quote is an example of one of the e-mails I have in my queue:

Now here is what I am running for my server:
Cent OS 5.0
Plesk Hosting Control Panel 8.3.0 which uses QMAIL as the mail program.

I have created an SPF record for each domain/client that I host, the record looks as follows:

To my knowledge the above SPF record should only let messages get sent from my server and no where else. Meaning the message must get relayed through my box regardless of where my client is. Having said that then I shouldn't get bounce back messages, correct?

Any and all help on this would be great!

It can fail for many reasons. Is there more information in the failure message?

As for the SPF record, my knowledge is limited to what I've read on wikipedia, but I believe ~all is a soft failure, which means messages sent from other IPs would actually be delivered and merely tagged as possible junk. Whereas -all would be needed to make them fail.

Also, it's my understanding that some mail servers ignore the SPF records.

Unfortunately there is nothing else to the error message, just that.

I better read up a little more the on SPF record.... still I am guessing someone is spoofing my server's name because I don't have an SPF.