An SPF record can save your domain from spam and phishing by allowing you to keep a record of your authorized sources. Maropost highly recommends their customers set up SPF for their respective domains. Here’s how you do it:
Creating SPF record for Maropost:
Here are the steps to set up SPF for Maropost :
- Login into the admin account and navigate to settings>sending domains
- On the sending domain index page, click New domain
- Enter domain name
- Click next to go to the verification page and copy the SPF TXT record
- Publish the TXT record on your DNS
- Go back to domain verification page and click verify TXT for SPF verification
- The SPF TXT record for Maropost will have the following syntax:
mydomain.com TXT v=spf1 include:spf.maropost.com -all
- Publish this record in your DNS records section for your respective domain.
Note: If you don’t have an SPF record previously for your domain, simply publish the above-mentioned record to enable SPF for outgoing emails using Maropost. If you do have an existing SPF record in your DNS, you need to modify it to include Maropost, as shown below:
Previous SPF record: v=spf1 include:spf.domain.com -all
Modified SPF record:v=spf1 include:spf.domain.com include:spf.maropost.com -all
- Save changes
- Wait for 72 hours to allow your DNS to process the changes
Finally, you can look up your record using our SPF record lookup tool, and enable DMARC for your domains to minimize spoofing attacks by taking a free DMARC trial.
