Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records help to reduce the chance of your domain being spoofed in
spam messages. It can also increase the deliverability of e-mail to
external providers such as Gmail and Outlook who require authentication for emails.
We
maintain an SPF record that is kept up to date with all IP addresses
used to send emails from our network. This ensures that any email
through our services passes an SPF check.
**Please note that all new orders through us, will by default have our SPF Record added on to it.
You
can also add an SPF record manually if our ones are not yet on your
domain. You can add the SPF record to the domain from inside the CHI
area and you can add it from inside the Stackcp hosting area.
How to add SPF records 'manually' using StackCP :
1. Login to your account at https://chi.westhost.com/
2. Head to 'Shared Hosting' and click the 'Manage StackCP' button.
3. Once StackCP is open - look for the 'Domain Names' section and click "Manage DNS"
Towards the bottom of the Manage DNS page, you will see 3 inputs to allow you to add new records.
To add it:
- In the first field: Leave the Name field blank
- in the second drop down menu, Select TXT for Type
- In the third field type in: v=spf1 include:spf.stackmail.com a mx -all
3. Click the 'Update DNS' button to save the record.