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I am familiar with the basics of SPF but I am having trouble determining exactly what I need for my setup.

I have my email done through Google Apps to send and receive email for my domain, example.com. Now I am adding Mailchimp Mandrill as a valid outgoing SMTP server for the same domain. I currently dont have an SPF record set up for Gmail.

When creating the SPF record for spf.mandrillapp.com, do I need to include gmail.com also? Or example.com? Or all three? Or only Mandrill?

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Yes, you should include Google's SPF include for this domain, even if no SPF record was set up previously.

Your record for example.com will probably look something like:

v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com ~all

when all is said and done.

You don't need anything additional for example.com unless you are sending email directly (e.g. with Postfix or Sendmail) from another server.

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