title: SPF=Neutral sending through gmail
body: <p>I'm using phpMailer on a Linode server. The DNS records are set to allow sending through the gmail mail server which is hosing my mail account membership@oiyc.org. I just added DKIM to try to get the SPF rating up. The DKIM apparently is fine but I still get SPF Neutral. </p>
  
  <p>The sender set up is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        $mail = new PHPMailer();
          $mail-&gt;isSMTP();
          $mail-&gt;SMTPKeepAlive = true;
          $mail-&gt;SMTPAuth   = true;
          $mail-&gt;SMTPSecure = "tls";                 // sets the prefix to the server
          $mail-&gt;Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
          $mail-&gt;Port       = 587;                   // set the SMTP port
          $mail-&gt;Username   = "membership@oiyc.org";  // GMAIL username
          $mail-&gt;Password   = "*******************";            // GMAIL password
          $mail-&gt;isHTML(true); // send as HTML
          $mail-&gt;WordWrap   = 100; // set word wrap
          $mail-&gt;Sender = "membership@oiyc.org";
          $mail-&gt;addReplyTo($_SESSION['se-reply'],$_SESSION['se-from']);
          $mail-&gt;setFrom($_SESSION['se-reply'],$_SESSION['se-from']);
  
          $mail-&gt;DKIM_domain = "oiyc.org";
          $mail-&gt;DKIM_private = "*********/rsa.private"; //path to file on the disk.
          $mail-&gt;DKIM_selector = "mainkey";// change this to whatever you set during step 2
          $mail-&gt;DKIM_passphrase = "";
          $mail-&gt;DKIM_identity = $mail-&gt;Sender;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the source received from an email sent through my linode server.</p>
  
  <pre><code>            Delivered-To: ********@gmail.com
              Received: by 10.46.25.85 with SMTP id p82csp1388830lje;
                  Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:11:56 -0800 (PST)
              X-Received: by 10.98.196.204 with SMTP id h73mr11556131pfk.143.1517771515865;
                  Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:11:55 -0800 (PST)
              ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1517771515; cv=none;
                  d=google.com; s=arc-20160816;
                  b=*****
                  qrIA==
              ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816;
                  h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:list-unsubscribe:message-id
                  :subject:reply-to:to:date:from:dkim-signature
                  :arc-authentication-results;
                  bh=ptVvqh2PiSco0+Kb7wjBXHUijnbEm43LU4E+zStVvb0=;
                  b=********
                  iuTg==
              ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com;
                  dkim=pass header.i=@oiyc-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.s=20150623 header.b=ytsz7YWm;
                  spf=neutral (google.com: 209.85.220.41 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of membership@oiyc.org) smtp.mailfrom=membership@oiyc.org
              Return-Path: &lt;membership@oiyc.org&gt;
              Received: from mail-sor-f41.google.com (mail-sor-f41.google.com. [209.85.220.41])
                  by mx.google.com with SMTPS id i3sor1037208pgs.91.2018.02.04.11.11.55
                  for &lt;********@gmail.com&gt;
                  (Google Transport Security);
                  Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:11:55 -0800 (PST)
              Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 209.85.220.41 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of membership@oiyc.org) client-ip=209.85.220.41;
              Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
                  dkim=pass header.i=@oiyc-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.s=20150623 header.b=ytsz7YWm;
                  spf=neutral (google.com: 209.85.220.41 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of membership@oiyc.org) smtp.mailfrom=membership@oiyc.org
              DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
                  d=oiyc-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623;
                  h=from:date:to:reply-to:subject:message-id:list-unsubscribe
                  :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding;
                  bh=ptVvqh2PiSco0+Kb7wjBXHUijnbEm43LU4E+zStVvb0=;
                  b=*********
              SsBA==
              X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
                  d=1e100.net; s=20161025;
                  h=x-gm-message-state:from:date:to:reply-to:subject:message-id
                  :list-unsubscribe:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding;
                  bh=ptVvqh2PiSco0+Kb7wjBXHUijnbEm43LU4E+zStVvb0=;
                  b=*************
                  r+zA==
              X-Gm-Message-State: AKwxytcQCxD/95gmJfS/DyCC4XOh8K3K+Jj9QONeHmVyCH5ebJDtxvIl tQwyBjpS9etVQopYODbtnZZ2Kw0k1Pc=
              X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x227kdTn+9Ee7QoJFUYDPq/ax7LmKHzsDAtCNr/5cL0MidmAB3GWuEw4RU28Zb3jl8Kx0uAnegw==
              X-Received: by 10.99.96.80 with SMTP id u77mr6305435pgb.401.1517771515191;
              Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:11:55 -0800 (PST)
              Return-Path: &lt;membership@oiyc.org&gt;
              Received: from oiyc.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe56:5129])
                  by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m65sm14046167pfc.150.2018.02.04.11.11.54
                  for &lt;********@gmail.com&gt;
                  (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128);
                  Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:11:54 -0800 (PST)
              From: Bob Brunius &lt;membership@oiyc.org&gt;
              X-Google-Original-From: Bob Brunius &lt;********@gmail.com&gt;
              Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:11:53 -0800
              To: ********@gmail.com
              Reply-To: Bob Brunius &lt;********@gmail.com&gt;
              Subject: A different sort of test 123d
              Message-ID: &lt;MR3sDgtyN4siuc2vYCZLxL34VuLFlexvK0WbbcEH7FA@oiyc.org&gt;
              X-Mailer: PHPMailer 6.0.3 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
              List-Unsubscribe: &lt;information@oiyc.org&gt;, &lt;https://oiyc.org/membershipDatabaseForms/unsubscribe.php?email=********@gmail.com&amp;member=242&gt;
              MIME-Version: 1.0
              Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="b1_MR3sDgtyN4siuc2vYCZLxL34VuLFlexvK0WbbcEH7FA"
              Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
  
              --b1_MR3sDgtyN4siuc2vYCZLxL34VuLFlexvK0WbbcEH7FA
              Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
  
              Hello 12345678-abcd
  
              --b1_MR3sDgtyN4siuc2vYCZLxL34VuLFlexvK0WbbcEH7FA
              Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
  
              &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"&gt;
              &lt;html&gt;
              &lt;body&gt;
              Hello 12345678-abcd
              &lt;/body&gt;
              &lt;/html&gt;
              --b1_MR3sDgtyN4siuc2vYCZLxL34VuLFlexvK0WbbcEH7FA--
  </code></pre>