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I've set up my SPF record at improvedemployees.com as follows:

v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:84.40.9.177 mx ip4:84.40.9.11 ~all

I've set up my SPF record at affiliatewebdesigners.com to point to using improvedemployees.com as this is the reverse lookup name of the server. The SPF for affiliatewebdesigners.com is as follows:

v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:84.40.9.177 mx ip4:84.40.9.11 include:improvedemployees.com ~all

I'm still getting bounced emails unless I'm on a whitelist and I can't figure out why. I've tried to analyse my SPF record using mxtoolbox:

http://mxtoolbox.com/domain/improvedemployees.com/?source=findmonitors

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This error seems pretty useless. Can anyone help me figure out where I'm going wrong?

Dave Hilditch
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The right format for SPF record would be:

domain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 mx a ip4:mail.domain.com ~all"

or

domain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 mx a ip4:mail.domain.com a:anotherdomain.com ~all"

There are some online SPF Record Generator out there that can help you with creating SPF Record.

Ali Pandidan
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You've got "mx" specified twice in both of them.

v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:84.40.9.177 mx ip4:84.40.9.11 ~all

v=spf1 a mx ptr ip4:84.40.9.177 mx ip4:84.40.9.11 include:improvedemployees.com ~all

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