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SPF uses the deprecated ptr mechanism

URGENT

SPF · Urgent · costs 25 points · RFC 7208 section 5.5

What it means

the offending value makes receivers do slow reverse-DNS work that many of them skip entirely. The RFC tells senders not to publish it, and results are unreliable where they do.

How to fix it

Delete the offending value and authorise those servers explicitly with ip4:, ip6: or include:.

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 5.5. 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_PTR_MECHANISM

Every fix on this site is yours to implement. If you would rather someone did it, I take this work directly.