why do i get an SPF Softfail?

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Published on 2010-06-07T19:18:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 19:23 UTC
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I installed SPF on my LAMP server with postfix. But for some reason, I get this error

Received-SPF: softfail (mta1070.mail.re4.yahoo.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 1.1.1.1 as permitted sender)

I have two questions:

1) how do I trouble shoot this error

2) I've been looking through my configuration files in an attempt to change [email protected] to [email protected] because anotherurl.com has the correct SPF TXT records. Where do i go to change this? I tried editing myhostname under /etc/postfix/main.cf, but it didn't do anything.

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