DNS settings: only 1 SPF record?

Jeff Guynn

Member
I'm testing out Elastic Email (http://www.elasticemail.com), and they provide the following instructions for validating domains with SPF / DKIM:

*DNS settings should only have 1 SPF record. If there is an existing SPF record, just add "include:_spf.elasticemail.com" to the existing record. Make sure it is added before any IPs"

Silly me, I've always added each SPF record as a stand-alone entity in my host's DNS settings...i.e. one for mailwizz, one for sendgrid, one for mailgun, etc.

Curious what the practice has been in the group here. Appreciate your insight.
 

twisted1919

Administrator
Staff member
I just use a single spf record with all the records needed. It sometimes becomes a very very long string.
 

Jeff Guynn

Member
@twisted1919

If my mailwizz spf record by itself is the following: "v=spf1 mx a ptr a:mailwizz.tranzware.com ip4:50.87.23.137 ~all", how would I add that to a preexisting spf record to consolidate them into one? Like this? ..."include:spf1 mx a ptr a:mailwizz.tranzware.com ip4:50.87.23.137 ~all" ??
 
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