An SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record is like a “permission slip” for your email domain that tells the world Childcare online Booking (CoB) is allowed to send emails on behalf of your domain.
Here’s why you need it:
- Stop Fake Emails (Spoofing): Without an SPF record, scammers can send emails pretending to be from your domain. This is called spoofing. SPF helps email servers verify if an email claiming to come from your domain is sent from an authorized server.
- Improve Email Deliverability: Emails from domains without an SPF record might end up in the spam folder because email providers can’t trust them. Adding SPF makes your emails more trustworthy.
- Protect Your Reputation: If spammers spoof your domain to send fake emails, it can harm your company’s reputation. An SPF record helps prevent this by blocking unauthorized use of your domain.
Here’s what your domain host or IT department needs to do:
If there is already a SPF record, they will need to add the following to it:
include:_spf.childcare-online-booking.co.uk
If you don’t currently have an SPF record, we recommend adding the following. They also will need to make sure any other mail system they use is also added:
v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.childcare-online-booking.co.uk -all
It’s important to remember the underscore before the spf.