SPF, the stamp
A list of the servers allowed to send email as your domain. Mail from anywhere else looks forged.
Before Gmail or Outlook trusts a message from your domain, it checks three records. Type a domain to see all three the way they do.
Free, and no account needed.
Think of every email as a letter. It only gets delivered with confidence if all three of these are in order.
A list of the servers allowed to send email as your domain. Mail from anywhere else looks forged.
A signature added to every message, proving nobody changed it on the way to the inbox.
Your instruction to receiving servers about what to do with mail that fails the other two checks.
The Check health screen in the Microsoft 365 admin center shows a row of green ticks. It only looks at the records Microsoft needs to route mail to you. The two records other servers use to trust mail from you aren't on it.
Pay monthly or yearly in rand, by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Capitec Pay. No contracts or debit orders.
Keep an eye on one domain.
or R1,999 a year, two months free
For a small IT shop or a single business.
or R9,999 a year, two months free
For IT companies managing many clients.
Rather have it fixed for you? From any domain report, a specialist fixes your SPF, DKIM and DMARC for a once-off $110 (R1,750).
Yes. Checking any domain's SPF, DKIM and DMARC is free and needs no account. A free account also rechecks one domain every week and emails you if a record breaks.
The most common reason is a missing or weak SPF, DKIM or DMARC record. Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo now expect all three, and mail from domains without them is far more likely to be filtered as spam or rejected.
SPF lists the servers allowed to send as your domain. DKIM adds a signature that proves a message wasn't changed. DMARC tells receiving servers what to do with mail that fails those checks, and is what stops criminals sending fake invoices in your name.
No. It only reads public DNS records that any mail server can see. Nothing is changed and no mailbox is accessed.
Yes. From any domain report you can request a fix, and a specialist at ITend2end in Cape Town sets up SPF, DKIM and DMARC for a once-off R1,750.
Looking for one record? Try the DMARC checker, SPF checker, DKIM checker or the guide to DMARC for Microsoft 365.