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However, customers may be able to 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 for 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.
 
To cover the IP addresses of the A&A email servers, you can include <code>_spf_include.aa.net.uk</code>, eg:
This says to accept email from the mx records (<code>mx</code>) and A&A's published list of IP addresses (<code>include:_spf_include.aa.net.uk</code>) , everything else should be marked as possible junk (<code>~al</code>).
 
ThiThis sisis just a brief example of SPF, therethe record above will be useful to customers who only send email via <code>smtp.aa.net.uk</code>. There are lots of information and spfSPF 'generators' on the internet. The main thing to do is to test what you have added by looking at the headers of email that has been received by Gmail/O365 etc)
 
==TestingExample, withLooking at Gmail headers==
You can send an email to a gmail address, and then look at the received headers to see what Gmail think about the SPF records. (In gmail, open the email, click the 3 dots and select show original)
 
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