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@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 > > > > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss