What is an "SPF" record?
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Problem:What is an "SPF" record? Solution:A Sender Policy Framework record, or SPF Record, is used to control forged email. It does this by asking the sending domain if it matches the IP address of the person sending the email. Below is an example to give you an idea of how SPF works. Craig owns the domain example.com. He also sometimes sends mail through his GMail account and contacted GMail's support to identify the correct SPF record for GMail. Since he often receives bounces about messages he didn't send, he decides to publish an SPF record in order to reduce the abuse of his domain. He adds the following record to his DNS domain zone file
The breakdown of that record is as follows
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