SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2459717 - Wrong determination of SPF entries

Symptom

Customer seeing this error in their mail server logs :"The domain XXXXXXXX.com has published an SPF policy, however, an error occurred while the receiving mail server tried to evaluate the policy:Included domain 'prodmail012a.successfactors.eu' has no applicable sender policy"

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Reproducing the Issue

The DNS TXT records contains the following clause: " include:prodmail012a.successfactors.eu include:prodmail012b.successfactors.eu "

Cause

We do not have TXT record for prodmail012a.successfactors.eu and prodmail012b.successfactors.eu in our DNS, they are A records instead.

Resolution

Customer can update their DNS TXT record and replace following clauses:

" include:prodmail012a.successfactors.eu include:prodmail012b.successfactors.eu "

  • into

    : " include:_spf-[dc#].sapsf.eu " and try sending emails again. 

NOTE: [DC#] is the data center number; ex: dc55 or dc12

See Also

Keywords

SPF, prodmail, Email notification, DNS , KBA , LOD-SF-PLT-NOT , Email Notifications , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core 1702