Merge the SPF records into one on Cloudflare

Why it matters

A domain may publish only one SPF record, and with two or more receivers treat SPF as a permanent error, so legitimate mail can fail too. This usually happens when each mail service asks you to add its own record.

Staged change. Do this in stages and check each one before the next, so a mistake does not break your site or your mail.

The fix

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard open DNS > Records and filter by Type TXT. Find every record whose Content starts with v=spf1.
2. Edit one of them so its Content holds all senders in a single v=spf1 ... ~all string, then delete the other SPF records. Leave TXT records for other purposes (verification tokens and so on) alone.

Type:     TXT
Name:     example.com
Content:  v=spf1 include:_spf.provider-one.example include:_spf.provider-two.example ~all

The examples use example.com. Replace it with your own domain.

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Related

• Reported by the SPF record check
• Publish an SPF record
• Fix the syntax error in the SPF record
• Replace +all in the SPF record with ~all
• Narrow the very large address range in the SPF record
• Change ?all in the SPF record to ~all
• Choose the right SPF ending for this domain
• End the SPF record with ~all or -all
• Bring the SPF record under 10 DNS lookups
• Leave room under the SPF lookup limit
• Remove SPF terms that point at names that no longer exist
• Fix the SPF include that has no SPF record
• Break the loop in the SPF includes
• Replace the include that has several SPF records
• Replace the ptr mechanism in the SPF record
• Check the SPF terms that use macros
• Re-run the scan if part of the SPF record could not be read