Changes to google emails
This blog for all our business owners out there, Google and Yahoo have implemented stricter measures around how emails are received. Your emails may already be affected, if you don't take action before 28 February you will not be able to send or receive emails to anyone with a Google or Yahoo email address. You can be missing out on a lot of existing and potential clients.
What you need to do
Tell your IT expert about these new rules from Google and Yahoo, you can copy and paste the below.
Change some of the settings for your email (your IT expert will ensure that your DNS configuration for your domain(s) includes the following:
[replace yourdomain.com with your domain name]
Email Authentication:
CNAME mte1._domainkey.yourdomain.com dkim1.mandrillapp.com
CNAME mte2._domainkey.yourdomain.com dkim2.mandrillapp.com
DMARC Record:
If you have an existing record for _dmarc.yourdomain.com leave it as is.
If there is no _dmarc.yourdomain.com record, add the following record:
TXT. _dmarc.yourdomain.com v=DMARC1; p=none
SPF Record:
If there is already a TXT for the root domain (e.g. yourdomain.com) that contains the v=spf1 value, simply add the “include:sendgrid.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com” values to the existing record. For example:
Existing record:
"v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:example.com ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ~all"
Update to:
"v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:example.com include:sendgrid.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ~all"
(please note the "include:sendgrid.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com " in bold is an insertion into your existing SPF record)
If there is no existing record:
Add the following record to your DNS.
TXT yourdomain.com v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com ~all
