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Whilst we don't provide DMARK or DKIM features on our email service customers are are welcome to use their own email servers and configure them as they wish.
 
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 forfrom 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.
v=spf1 mx include:_spf_include.aa.net.uk ~all
 
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>~alall</code>).
 
This is just a brief example of SPF, the record above will be useful to customers who only send email via <code>smtp.aa.net.uk</code>. There are lots of information and SPF '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)
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