
Enter the domain name in the box and click 'Check SPF.' You'll receive all lookup and check results for that domain momentarily. How to Check SPF Record?Įasy! Simply use our free SPF Record Checker tool on our EasyDMARC platform. Most companies and individuals use SPF records to prevent spoofing and enhance email security and deliverability. The SPF record protects a company’s domain from being spoofed while improving its sender reputation with MBPs (Mailbox Providers) such as Google, Microsoft, Verizon, etc. Depending on the qualifiers used (~, +, -, ?), this mechanism indicates how the recipient should treat emails from non-authorized sources. It should be placed at the end of the SPF record. Listing all your sending sources under this tag lets the recipient know that you verify all the aded domains/subdomains as legitimate sources.Īll is a required tag. The include tag is of top importance for a correct SPF record. The exists tag checks if an A record exists or not on the mentioned domain. It's a not recommended tag as per RFC 7208, because it spends too many DNS lookups. The PTR tag prompts a PTR check for client IP hostname(s).

If left unspecified, it takes the value of the current domain. The MX record tag checks the MX record of the mail server(s).

The A record tag allows the SPF to validate the sender by domain name's IP address.

This tag should include all the IPv6 addresses that are allowed to send emails on behalf of the domain. This tag should include all the IPv4 addresses that are allowed to send emails on behalf of the domain. If it's incorrect or the tag is missing, the SPF record will be ignored.
