{"id":80,"date":"2019-08-09T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/?p=80"},"modified":"2020-04-16T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:16:10","slug":"what-is-an-spf-record-and-how-to-add-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/what-is-an-spf-record-and-how-to-add-one\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an SPF Record and how to add one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record is a type of Domain Name Service (DNS) TXT record that identifies which mail servers are permitted to send email on behalf of your domain.<\/p>\n<p>Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record is a security measure to block unsolicited\/unwanted email (spam).<\/p>\n<p>It is an email validation protocol to detect and block email spoofing (impersonating).<\/p>\n<p>This is prevented by providing a mechanism to allow receiving mail servers to verify that incoming mail from a domain comes from an IP Address authorised by that domain&#8217;s administrators.<\/p>\n<p>SPF records help reduce the chance of your domain being spoofed in spam messages. It can also increase the deliverability of e-mail to external providers such as Gmail and Outlook.<\/p>\n<p>We maintain an SPF record that is kept up to date with all IP addresses used to transmit e-mail from our network. This\u00a0ensures that any e-mail sent from our services passes an SPF check.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPF records are automatically added to all our hosting packages domains.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have an additional or external domain, to use this on your domain, you need to add a TXT record in DNS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manage DNS section<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Towards the bottom of the Manage DNS page you will see 3 inputs to allow you to add new records. To add it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leave the <strong>Name\u00a0<\/strong>field blank<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>TXT<\/strong> for Type<\/li>\n<li>Enter\u00a0<strong>v=spf1 include:spf.stackmail.com a mx -all<\/strong>\u00a0as data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then save the changes. Your domain is now protected by an SPF record.<\/p>\n<div class=\"d-flex justify-content-between align-items-start mb-4\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-0\">How do I add another server\/include to an SPF record?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>If you&#8217;re using QuantaTec mail server but want to route emails via another provider &#8211; such as G Suite, Office 365 or Mailchimp &#8211; you may need to add a secondary sending server source to the SPF record.<\/p>\n<p>You can do this by specifying multiple\u00a0<strong>includes<\/strong>\u00a0within the TXT record within\u00a0<strong>Manage DNS.\u00a0<\/strong>Each include is separated by a space and if any one include should fail, the SPF mechanism will simply move on to the next one. Below are some common providers you may need to add to your SPF record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QuantaTec&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0default SPF record:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>v=spf1 include:spf.stackmail.com a mx -all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To include a secondary include, you can edit the record:<\/p>\n<p><strong>G Suite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>v=spf1<strong>\u00a0include:_spf.google.com\u00a0<\/strong>include:spf.stackmail.com a mx -all<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office 365<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>v=spf1\u00a0<strong>include:spf.protection.outlook.com\u00a0<\/strong>include:spf.stackmail.com a mx -all<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailchimp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>v=spf1\u00a0<strong>include:servers.mcsv.net\u00a0<\/strong>include:spf.stackmail.com a mx -all<\/p>\n<p><strong>SendGrid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>v=spf1\u00a0<strong>include:sendgrid.net<\/strong>\u00a0include:spf.stackmail.com a mx -all<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record is a type of Domain Name Service (DNS) TXT record that identifies which mail servers are permitted to send email on behalf of your domain. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record is a security measure to block unsolicited\/unwanted email (spam). It is an email validation protocol to detect and block &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/what-is-an-spf-record-and-how-to-add-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is an SPF Record and how to add one?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domain-names","category-email-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantatec.ltd\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}