And we also see that they have not yet 'hard enforced', but it looks like some trigger on a domain results in requiring SPF for that domain.

Of course, we don't expect Google to reveal their secrets, but we can assume things like new IP(s), new domains, sudden traffic surges, or customers clicking on 'this is spam' all might cause the requirement for SPF on a certain domain.



On 2022-04-19 07:57, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote:
Short version: google is not hard enforcing SPF presence. Copies of emails delivered to my google spam folder are attached.

On 19 Apr 2022, at 14:54, Lichtinger, Bernhard via mailop <mailop@mailop.org <mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote:

Hi,

Well i have no SPF records. See [doraji.xyz <http://doraji.xyz>]. And all incoming emails go to Gmail(soyeo...@gmail.com <mailto:soyeo...@gmail.com>) by forwarding. The Gmail is my final inbox
provider. Really there are no troubles, at least, to me...

My observation is that Gmail enforces authentication via SPF or DKIM since the first days of march 2022.
One of SPF or DKIM is sufficient to get mails delivered to Gmail.
It looks like Gmail imposes a DMARC policy of reject for every sender domain ignoring the actual DNS entries for DMARC or their absence.

We just did 2 tests, one with an email that violated half a dozen best practices and one that has a SPFSoftfail (with no DKIM).

SPF SoftFail delivered to spam:

    Delivered-To: wttwla...@gmail.com <mailto:wttwla...@gmail.com>
    Received: by 2002:a05:6a20:54a6:b0:7d:b75e:81cc with SMTP id
    i38csp2956940pzk;
             Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:44:59 -0700 (PDT)
    X-Google-Smtp-Source:
    ABdhPJznmP9P9y29YlGiaLzZTxw0NXW8HUbBKmVBAeegvyAXSFlmXFYoYl/b2Xkgh7yVLnt6UuK7
    X-Received: by 2002:a5d:6d03:0:b0:20a:7af0:380f with SMTP id
    e3-20020a5d6d03000000b0020a7af0380fmr11823278wrq.148.1650379498973;
             Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
    ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1650379498; cv=none;
             d=google.com <http://google.com>; s=arc-20160816;
b=oAA3r/bEkAyRjN7ZL7C2R9PNSNlehAqTYFpiww5W9ojBBIcPeXwmLRZiMZr3B/Ug5d  BiJezi7mylKI+UO2ywcAG7h1jmTAeizH3j1ghCzukMp2uh3w3oHZ64R+3JAAajACtRcH  lc1BkI/RLdsj7uv7tU3ECElQPX80PC1/hPzxYzc8Si/U761BLX3gVgK+QBeie1HX81JO  HJFtAqVxp/AaVFH4qZuScWJGC23wN5C2Q0pNIytEAc3xk2momvTNrNvYERAqPlYfz32c  9Li7Yh330SYhCfGwNrCM0tWZJN7/G9YFDPRyWbWh8j71Xqnx3M7XiNrXGPIbcBrvpoNw
              INbg==
    ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
    d=google.com <http://google.com>; s=arc-20160816;
             h=message-id:subject:from:to:date;
             bh=ecGWgWCJeWxJFeM0urOVWP+KOlqqvsQYKOpYUP8nk7I=;
b=P1PMZlNCzI7TENQ2QO8kaSWDTckbB3jDkrrzxUbjxzgJ/SfGFjHSJpyFttLPHKnatk  pTDj/P5r07tRG7lQ4msWgKZocbyj3y5j6ZNqWRgs189MgDCAb1u533ZJlmRyzWZi2n/3  u50p14IatncLBfPrcxOwMACDBzPRd8P2h72VGcG5V9cRz27WziJmVOxtVEUJk5Hd+c2Z  KoQ+Uzf/lRkGwcKo0MDcQ6qMG3swCdMioHmG4N26/VVOBSNDVbRJZ4J0KR+4TZNO4NlT  gZZKMuWeQvr54C+rtg8ht/OekVrhbksGrKWNoicG78FwORNoUINzJVMAdxhVAWzvWAPq
              Vv2g==
    ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com <http://mx.google.com>;
            spf=neutral (google.com <http://google.com>: 185.97.236.152
    is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of
    steve@sliver) smtp.mailfrom=steve@sliver
    Return-Path: <steve@sliver>
    Received: from sliver ([185.97.236.152])
             by mx.google.com <http://mx.google.com> with ESMTP id
    p7-20020adfe607000000b00203e90194c2si8108892wrm.582.2022.04.19.07.44.58
             for <wttwla...@gmail.com <mailto:wttwla...@gmail.com>>;
             Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
    Received-SPF: neutral (google.com <http://google.com>:
    185.97.236.152 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record
    for domain of steve@sliver) client-ip=185.97.236.152;
    Authentication-Results: mx.google.com <http://mx.google.com>;
            spf=neutral (google.com <http://google.com>: 185.97.236.152
    is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of
    steve@sliver) smtp.mailfrom=steve@sliver
    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:44:58 +0100
    To: wttwla...@gmail.com <mailto:wttwla...@gmail.com>
    From: steve@sliver
    Subject: test Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:44:58 +0100
    Message-Id: <20220419154458.051019@sliver>
    X-Mailer: swaks v20201014.0 jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
    <http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/>

    This is a test mailing


This message probably shouldn’t have been accepted. The number of spec and best practice violations is extremely high. But it, too, ended up in my spam folder.

    Delivered-To: wttwla...@gmail.com <mailto:wttwla...@gmail.com>
    Received: by 2002:a05:6a20:54a6:b0:7d:b75e:81cc with SMTP id
    i38csp2956940pzk;
             Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:44:59 -0700 (PDT)
    X-Google-Smtp-Source:
    ABdhPJznmP9P9y29YlGiaLzZTxw0NXW8HUbBKmVBAeegvyAXSFlmXFYoYl/b2Xkgh7yVLnt6UuK7
    X-Received: by 2002:a5d:6d03:0:b0:20a:7af0:380f with SMTP id
    e3-20020a5d6d03000000b0020a7af0380fmr11823278wrq.148.1650379498973;
             Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
    ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1650379498; cv=none;
             d=google.com <http://google.com>; s=arc-20160816;
b=oAA3r/bEkAyRjN7ZL7C2R9PNSNlehAqTYFpiww5W9ojBBIcPeXwmLRZiMZr3B/Ug5d  BiJezi7mylKI+UO2ywcAG7h1jmTAeizH3j1ghCzukMp2uh3w3oHZ64R+3JAAajACtRcH  lc1BkI/RLdsj7uv7tU3ECElQPX80PC1/hPzxYzc8Si/U761BLX3gVgK+QBeie1HX81JO  HJFtAqVxp/AaVFH4qZuScWJGC23wN5C2Q0pNIytEAc3xk2momvTNrNvYERAqPlYfz32c  9Li7Yh330SYhCfGwNrCM0tWZJN7/G9YFDPRyWbWh8j71Xqnx3M7XiNrXGPIbcBrvpoNw
              INbg==
    ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
    d=google.com <http://google.com>; s=arc-20160816;
             h=message-id:subject:from:to:date;
             bh=ecGWgWCJeWxJFeM0urOVWP+KOlqqvsQYKOpYUP8nk7I=;
b=P1PMZlNCzI7TENQ2QO8kaSWDTckbB3jDkrrzxUbjxzgJ/SfGFjHSJpyFttLPHKnatk  pTDj/P5r07tRG7lQ4msWgKZocbyj3y5j6ZNqWRgs189MgDCAb1u533ZJlmRyzWZi2n/3  u50p14IatncLBfPrcxOwMACDBzPRd8P2h72VGcG5V9cRz27WziJmVOxtVEUJk5Hd+c2Z  KoQ+Uzf/lRkGwcKo0MDcQ6qMG3swCdMioHmG4N26/VVOBSNDVbRJZ4J0KR+4TZNO4NlT  gZZKMuWeQvr54C+rtg8ht/OekVrhbksGrKWNoicG78FwORNoUINzJVMAdxhVAWzvWAPq
              Vv2g==
    ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com <http://mx.google.com>;
            spf=neutral (google.com <http://google.com>: 185.97.236.152
    is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of
    steve@sliver) smtp.mailfrom=steve@sliver
    Return-Path: <steve@sliver>
    Received: from sliver ([185.97.236.152])
             by mx.google.com <http://mx.google.com> with ESMTP id
    p7-20020adfe607000000b00203e90194c2si8108892wrm.582.2022.04.19.07.44.58
             for <wttwla...@gmail.com <mailto:wttwla...@gmail.com>>;
             Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
    Received-SPF: neutral (google.com <http://google.com>:
    185.97.236.152 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record
    for domain of steve@sliver) client-ip=185.97.236.152;
    Authentication-Results: mx.google.com <http://mx.google.com>;
            spf=neutral (google.com <http://google.com>: 185.97.236.152
    is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of
    steve@sliver) smtp.mailfrom=steve@sliver
    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:44:58 +0100
    To: wttwla...@gmail.com <mailto:wttwla...@gmail.com>
    From: steve@sliver
    Subject: test Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:44:58 +0100
    Message-Id: <20220419154458.051019@sliver>
    X-Mailer: swaks v20201014.0 jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
    <http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/>

    This is a test mailing





Regards,
Bernhard


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