SPF records for a domain can specify all the IP addresses allowed to send emails on behalf of your company. They work to prevent spoofing and phishing attacks by instructing recipients’ mailboxes to mark unauthorized emails as spam or reject their entries. Before understanding how SPF records work, let’s see what they look like. Here’s…
Sender Policy Framework or SPF prevents phishing and spoofing attacks by enabling domain owners to specify which IP addresses or servers they trust. These authorized IP addresses are enlisted in SPF TXT records. This blog focuses on understanding how to create an SPF TXT record for your domain. What are SPF Records? SPF records are…
Every time you query your DNS, it costs the validator (the recipient’s email system) resources like bandwidth and CPU memory. A maximum limit of 10 DNS lookups is imposed to avoid unreasonable load on the validator. If an SPF record exceeds this limit, SPF too many DNS lookups error or technically called the ‘Permerror’ comes…
