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Set Up an SPF Record for Your Domain
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What is SPF?
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is
the anti-forgery solution for
email. An SPF record is a one-line
entry in your DNS record that
indicates which mail servers are
permitted to send email with a
given "From" address.
This record combats possible
forged return addresses which
makes it easier to identify
'spoofed' emails. SPF is
an attempt to counter email
address spoofing, in which a
sender uses someone else's
email address as the apparent
sender of an email.
How SPF Works:
SPF policy data is published on a
DNS server in a TXT record. DNS
resolvers typically cache SPF data
to reduce lookup traffic. Sender
domains do not have to run new
servers to advertise SPF
information; instead, SPF uses the
connecting client's IP address
and information from the SMTP
envelope to evaluate the SPF
policy document published via DNS.
After the policy is evaluated, the
message is classified and handled
accordingly.
How to setup an SPF record:
For every domain you send mail for
you will need to create a TXT
record in your domain's DNS
with the following line:
"v=spf1 mx
ip4:69.25.74.32/27
ip4:64.95.72.192/26
ip4:69.25.75.192/26 -all"
(without the quotes)
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