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However, customers can add a SPF record to their domain to help get their messages through. In short, an SPF record says which email servers are allowed to send messages from you.

Typically, our customers would use <code>smtp.aa.net.uk</code> to send email - however '''thought must be given to other servers that may also send email from your domain - eg you may have a 3rd party web server or some other service that sends email on our behalf - these would want to be included too.'''

Typically, our customers would use <code>smtp.aa.net.uk</code> to send email - however '''thought must be given to other servers that may also send email from your domain - eg you may have a 3rd party web server or some other service that sends email on our behalf - these would want to be included too.''' In these cases, you'd add the IP addresses as: ip4:x.x.x.x and/or ip6:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::xxxx

To cover the IP addresses of the A&A email servers, you can include <code>_spf_include.aa.net.uk</code>, eg:

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