communication auth_error ai_generated true

Authentication-Results: spf=fail dkim=fail

ID: communication/email-spf-dkim-failure

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82%Fix Rate
86%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
any active — — —

Root Cause

Email authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) failing.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Configure SPF record with authorized sending IPs/services
  2. 88% success Set up DKIM signing and publish public key in DNS

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Set DMARC policy to p=none permanently 78% fail

    No protection against spoofing

  2. Include all IP ranges in SPF 80% fail

    SPF lookup limit exceeded