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Jonathan_Reed
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Aug 12, 2022

SPF Failing Alignment

Admins: If this is the wrong forum, please let me know. I'm new here. 

 

Greetings everyone!

 

I recently setup DKIM and DMARC for my organization. We are utilizing Exchange Online for our email services. Everything is proceeding swimmingly except for some SPF alignment failures. I am raising this issue here because the servers in question are all: <variable>.obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com

 

On the surface, it looks like Outlook protection is forwarding emails between its servers, which would explain why SPF alignment is failing. However, I am not certain I understand why this forwarding is occurring. Here are a couple of examples:

 

 

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