been getting spam of late and pretty frequently. I thought it could be another server that was compromised and sending spam to my own email. From the looks of the ip it seems that it isn’t. Now I am going to try to stop spam and trying to stop soft fail spf from passing through

previously it was

v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

now I am going to change to

v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com -all

(22-03-16)

After sometime I found v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all is correct all along. v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com -all causes mails to come in as neutral instead of the spf softfail.

Resource

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework