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SparkPost 403 Error when Laravel Spark Password Email Sent

Using SparkPost with Laravel Spark. When I send a password reset email I receive:

Client error: POST https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1/transmissions resulted in a 403 Forbidden response: {"errors": [ {"message": "Forbidden."} ]}

They are indicating this is due to the request not being sent from the backend.

Anyone running in to this issue?

Thanks in advance.

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ok, this issues was caused by the spf record not being verified. After it was verified everything is working as expected.

I did have a previous txt record starting with v=spf1 that was preventing the new SparkPost spf from being verified. After deleting the old one the new one was verified.

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