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SPF configuration

SPF configuration

Hi everyone, we already spoke about SPF record being a type of TXT record in your domain's DNS and we also spoke about SPF record having a specific syntax. So in the table over here, you can see that for the various senders that you might have, these are the SPF records and the syntax that you have to use to configure the SPF records. For example, if you send e-mail with Google Workspace only, this would be the SPF record that you will be using in your DNS settings to configure the SPF. So let's understand the syntax of this part before proceeding further. V equals to SPF 1. This part is specifically used to declare the SPF version being used. You can see it is constant across all the syntax. So after that, the next part is this one. This is very critical, and it authorizes Google's mail servers to send emails for your domain. So wherever the sender is Google Workspace, you can see that this syntax is being used. Last is this part. This is used as a directive, indicating what to do…

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