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Q & A Email Authentication · August 21, 2026

How do I know if SPF is causing my email to go to spam?

Ask a recipient to forward you the raw email headers (or check them yourself in Gmail → three dots → Show original). Look for the ‘Received-SPF’ header or the Authentication-Results header. It will show ‘pass’, ‘fail’, ‘softfail’, or ‘neutral’. DomainScan’s email header analyzer can parse these headers and highlight authentication failures.

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How to Fix SPF Failures (softfail, hardfail, permerror)
SPF softfail, hardfail, permerror, and DNS lookup limit errors each have a different fix. This guide walks through diagnosing each failure type and rewriting your SPF record correctly — without breaking it.