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Office 365 for education and SMTP relaying.

We have recently migrated from an internally hosted Exchange 2010 to offie 365 for education.

Currently our exchange is still present, but only for the purpose of SMTP relaying from our applications. I believe this is causing problems because of our SPF record.

I would like to know is it better (or even possible with the free/educaiton licensing.) to use office 365 for relaying. or should i just adjust my SPF records and continue to use the internal relay.

If the answer is adjust SPF record. can i please get some guidance on the exact syntax ?

currently it is setup as: v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all

Would i add another record, or add to the existing one ?

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While trying to update my spf Record.to include my external IP i see the following as a DNS error in office 365 Domains, DNS..

Expected vs actual record             TXT name      TXT value      TTL      Status
Expected record              @       v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all       3600      The record we detected doesn't match the expected value
Actual record              @       v=spf1 ip4:x.x.x.x include:spf.protection.outlook.com       3600      Invalid entry

I am not sure what i am doing wrong here. I have adjusted the spf record according to the KB article. (obviously real ip, not x's)

thanks