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SPF record has irregular spacing

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SPF · Healthy · costs 2 points · RFC 7208 section 12

What it means

The record contains repeated or leading spaces. Most parsers tolerate it; some split terms on it and read the record differently from the way you wrote it.

How to fix it

Separate every term with a single space and remove leading or trailing whitespace.

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the SPF test or the full checkup, which examines every record at once.

Understand it properly

This page covers one condition. For the whole picture, What is SPF, and the ten-lookup limit, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against RFC 7208 section 12. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other SPF conditions

SPF_EXTRA_WHITESPACE

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