I have a SPF record and someone is spoofing it and the my email go to spam. I have a newsletter that I need to get out and I am having problems. Here is the current SPF file and it is not working like it should. I am in the US and someone is spoofing my email address from South America.
Here is my SPF record.
v=spf1 a mx ptr include:fastdomain.com ?all TTL 14400
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Use this DO tutorial on SPF to guide your SPF value. Note that there is no “TTL 14400” in the SPF standard.
I have seen that but I cannot understand it. I have no idea what it all means relating to what each one will actually do? Is this standardized meaning that a set of rules will work on any mail server? Can anyone suggest rules to try to see if they can work for me? I hate to sound stupid but I don’t have a clue as to what I need.
Thanks for any help gndo.
@need2011 - Try the simplest first, and remember that it can take hours for your DNS entries to propagate. If you want to just send from your domain:
v=spf1 mx a:yourdomainhere ~all
If you want to also send via another domain like google gmail
v=spf1 mx a include:_spf.google.com ~all
or fastdomain.com instead of google gmail
v=spf1 mx a include:fastdomain.com ~all
Note that I simplified the ‘A’ record host for the 2nd and 3rd example. Good luck.
Thanks for all your help. I will play with it for the next day or so to see what can work.
Could you please elaborate on the ‘A’ record host a bit. Would this be a variable that I would need to change?
Have you used a free service like mxtoolbox to check your spf and dkim records?
I have used mail-tester.com this told me that my SPF was not good. But it does not tell me what to change it to. ?