SPF Record

Available in: Leap Pro and Leap Premium

An SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record is a type of DNS (Domain Name System) record used for email authentication.

SPF allows the receiving mail server to check during mail delivery that an email claiming to come from a specific domain is submitted by an IP address authorized by that domain’s administrators. The list of authorized sending hosts and IP addresses for a domain is published in the DNS records for that domain.

Because Leap is sending “from” your personal domain email address, your server may reject it as spam or phishing. Adding the leap domain in your SPF records will allow these emails to go through.

To ensure that messages to your customers are delivered when sent by Leap, it’s strongly recommended that you add the leaptodigital.com domain to your SPF record.

Add SPF record

SPF Records are added to the domain’s DNS records as TXT entries. Your domain’s DNS settings are most often controlled by your website’s host or registrar. Depending on how your domain is set up, there are a couple permutations on how to do this.

No SPF Record Entry

If you do not have an SPF record in your DNS (MOST USERS):

Create a TXT record with this value: “v=spf1 include:leaptodigital.com -all”.

Fewer Than 10 SPF Record Entries

If you have an existing SPF record with fewer than 10 entries:

Add “include:leaptodigital.com -all” to the existing TXT record.

More Than 10 SPF Record Entries

If you have an existing SPF record with 10 or more entries:

Create multiple TXT records that authorize all the desired domains for email sending.

The below is for EXAMPLE purposes only.

spf1.example.com TXT
v=spf1 a mx a:mail.domain.com a:mail.domain.ie a:mailman.example.com -all

spf2.example.com TXT
v=spf1 stamps.example.com mx:anothermailman.example.com include:anotherdomain.com -all

spf3.example.com TXT
v=spf1 ip4:192.168.0.1 ip4:192.168.0.2 -all

Then add this to the base domain:

example.com TXT
v=spf1 include:spf1.example.com include:spf2.example.com include:spf3.example.com -all

For more information see Sender Policy Framework on Wikipedia.