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How to change the sender email address in the emails sent by root cron tasks to avoid SPF validation failure?

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How to change the sender email address in the emails sent by root cron tasks to avoid a SPF validation failure?

CONFIG_TEXT: Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 203.0.113.2 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of root@localhost.localdomain) client-ip=203.0.113.2;

Answer

Change Plesk hostname to a domain with valid SPF records: How to change or get the server hostname on Plesk server

Alternatively, the following can be setup:

  1. Connect to the server via SSH

  2. Edit myorigin parameter in etc/postfix/main.cf file:

    # egrep ^myorigin /etc/postfix/main.cf
    myorigin = example.com

    Note: Where example.com is a domain with a valid SPF record. See What is the SPF? How to configure and use SPF on Plesk server? for more information.

  3. Restart Postfix service:

    # service postfix restart

Alternatively:

To add a parameter directly to the script, for example:

# vi /etc/cron.hourly/plesk-daily
#!/bin/sh
MAILFROM="admin@example.com"

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