SPF records for increasing mail delivery

[Mike Bydalek]

Take a look at this:

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723

Google recommends a slightly version than what you have.  Also, you can 
send an e-mail to spf-test at openspf.org to validate your settings.

To be honest, you're going to face a tough battle.  I was at a company 
where we sent a large amount of e-mails to professors throughout the 
country and were constantly battling bounces and Spam filters (this was 
all opt-in keep in mind).  What I would suggest is monitor your bounce 
backs and click-throughs to ensure nothing is amiss.

One technique I could suggest would be to setup an internal SpamAssassin 
(or use MailScanner) on a different domain and send your draft e-mails 
to an account on that system.  Enable the option to put scores in the 
header and then you can look at the e-mail to ensure that nothing you're 
doing is triggering a huge score.

Good luck!

-Mike

On 2/15/12 7:05 PM, Vimal Shah wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We regularly need to send emails (not marketing but student achievement
> metrics) to elementary school teachers across the country. We've been
> getting some of our email blocks at schools and so along with contacting
> the IT person to get whitelisted, we've just set up an SPF record in
> GoDaddy's DNS manager. It created a record (with PTR) and a value =
>
> v=spf1 mx ptr include:_spf.google.com. ~all
> <https://dns.godaddy.com/ZoneFile.aspx?zone=SOKIKOM.COM&zoneType=0&refer=dcc#>
> 	
>
>
> We send all email through google. Does this seem right? Are there any
> other records that should be included to maximize the probability of
> email delivery?
>
> Thanks,
> -Vimal
>
>
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