I saw you've since cleaned up the SPF record a bit to remove the IPv6
a/mx entries. Did that fix it?

If not, this might actually be worth submitting to them to point out
that they may be parsing it wrong:
https://support.google.com/mail/contact/gmail_bulk_sender_escalation

Regards,
Al Iverson

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 12:21 PM Eric J Esslinger via mailop
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My SPF records have been valid for... oh 10 years or so, and haven't changed, 
> but the last two days I'm getting intermittent bounces sending to gmail.com 
> addresses from our customer domain.
> I've sent a couple of emails to [email protected] but I'm not sure it's 
> monitored. Anyone else seeing such issues?
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.fpunet.com.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <[email protected]>:
> 142.250.105.27 failed after I sent the message.
> Remote host said: 550-5.7.26 This mail has been blocked because the sender is 
> unauthenticated.
> 550-5.7.26 Gmail requires all senders to authenticate with either SPF or DKIM.
> 550-5.7.26
> 550-5.7.26  Authentication results:
> 550-5.7.26  DKIM = did not pass
> 550-5.7.26  SPF [fpunet.com] with ip: [104.171.208.42] = did not pass
> 550-5.7.26
> 550-5.7.26  For instructions on setting up authentication, go to
> 550 5.7.26  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#authentication 
> t8-20020a25f608000000b00dcbcc921879si776036ybd.61 - gsmtp
>
>
> dig @8.8.8.8 txt fpunet.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10 <<>> @8.8.8.8 txt fpunet.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43644
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;fpunet.com.                    IN      TXT
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> fpunet.com.             900     IN      TXT     "v=spf1 +mx a:mail.fpunet.com 
> ip4:104.171.208.42 ip6:2602:FD43:0:2::42 -all"
>
> ;; Query time: 38 msec
> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 15 11:59:10 2024
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 115
>
>
> Eric Esslinger ([email protected])
> Information Services Manager
> Fayetteville Public Utilities (http://www.fpu-tn.com/)
> 408 College St W
> Fayetteville, TN 37334-2914
> 1-931-433-1522 x 165
> 1-800-379-2534 x 165
> Fax: 1-931-433-0646
>
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