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No SPF record

CODE RED

SPF · Critical · costs 40 points · RFC 7208 section 3

What it means

Nothing tells receivers which servers may send as example.com. Your legitimate mail arrives unvouched, far likelier to be filtered, and anyone can put your domain on the envelope of theirs.

How to fix it

Publish one TXT record at example.com listing every service that sends your mail, then close it: v=spf1 include:_spf.yourprovider.com ~all

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 3. 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_RECORD_MISSING

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