Email Deliverability Issues - SPF Records

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SPF Records

If you are experiencing email deliverability issues, you may need to add/edit your SPF Record. An SPF Record is a TXT Record that gets added by your IT representative through your domain registrar. SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework, and is used to help verify that you own your domain when sending emails to prevent receiving email servers from thinking your domain is being spoofed.

Vin65 has a SPF Record that includes all of our SendGrid IPs, and including it into your SPF Record will guarantee that SendGrid isn’t affecting your email deliverability.

I have an SPF Record

  1. Log into your domain registrar (i.e. GoDaddy, NameCheap, eNom, etc.) and head to the DNS settings.
  • If you don’t have access to your domain registrar, contact your IT representative.
  1. Edit your existing TXT Record (The value will begin with v=spf1):
  • You will want to add include:_spf.vin65.com to your existing record.
    i.e. If you current record looks like this:
    v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all
    You’ll want to add include:_spf.vin65.com after the v=spf1, which would then look like:
    v=spf1 include:_spf.vin65.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all
  1. Save your changes.
  2. Check that your SPF Record was added successfully without errors using MXToolBox. (Example Demo: http://g.recordit.co/ar4wXfPavh.gif)
  3. You are all set!

I don’t have an SPF Record

  1. Log into your domain registrar (i.e. GoDaddy, NameCheap, eNom, etc.) and head to the DNS settings.
  • If you don’t have access to your domain registrar, contact your IT representative.
  1. Add a new TXT Record with the following values:
  • Host: @
  • Value: v=spf1 include:_spf.vin65.com ~all
  • TTL: 60 seconds or the lowest it allows you to set it
  1. Save your changes.
  2. Check that your SPF Record was added successfully without errors using MXToolBox. (Example Demo: http://g.recordit.co/ar4wXfPavh.gif)
  3. You are all set!

I don’t know if I have an SPF Record

You can check if your domain currently has an SPF record by going to MXToolBox, entering your domain (i.e. vin65.com), and selecting SPF Record Lookup from the orange dropdown.

Example Demo: http://g.recordit.co/ar4wXfPavh.gif

  • If you see a green box, it means you have an SPF record
  • If you don’t see a green box, it means you don’t have an SPF record
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Is there a DKIM record too? @kelton

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@EdFarmCollective - There is no DKIM record, only SPF.

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My SPF record spits out

“v=spf1 mx a include:_spf.vin65.com ~all”

Is that “a” an issue being there? “Match if IP has a DNS 'A’
record in given domain”

(all tests complete successfully with a “pass” check and green box)

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@2626 - The ‘a’ shouldn’t cause any issues. It’s just also matching to any ‘A’ records you have on your domain, which look like it’s only ‘rcellars.com’ in your case.

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