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Should I include more than one SPF record in my DNS for each service I use?

Ivan avatar
Written by Ivan
Updated over 2 years ago

As per RFC 7208, multiple SPF records should not be added to DNS, as SPF check will fail returning a PermError. This in turn may affect deliverability and your emails may be rejected by the receiver if your DMARC policy is set to reject.

For example, if you have two SPF records in DNS such as:

v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all
v=spf1 include:myhr.provider.com -all

This will return PermError and both of the records need to be combined into one such as:

v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:myhr.provider.com -all

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