Have you ever found that when you go to check your email there can be literally a hundred or more emails showing that they have been returned even though you never sent them. This is what is known as spoofed email.

Spoof email is becoming a larger problem every day, but for those that are in the know of how to combat it, it is more manageable. What can you do? First of all one of the reason you may be gettting so much mail is if your catchall feature is turned on on your phone. To disable it there should be an option in your control panel other wise you may need to contact your hosting company to assist in disabling it if they already haven’t.

The second and most powerful thing to ward off spoof email is an SPF record. This can be created in the zone settings in a Web Host Manager if you have a reseller plan with most hosts or this also to may need to be created by the host company for you. SPF fights return-path address forgery and makes it easier to identify spoofs.
Domain owners identify sending mail servers in DNS. SMTP receivers verify the envelope sender address against this information, and can distinguish authentic messages from forgeries before any message data is transmitted. This is probably your single most powerful tool in the battle against spoof emails, but it is still catching on with some and hasn’t been fully integrated as of yet because many don’t know about it.

After doing these two things and ensuring that you don’t freely give out your email address to just anyone as well as putting it on your website in such a way that is easily obtained by a scavaging robot in search of emails to spam, you should be on the right track and will notice an immediate difference and possibly receive almost no spoofed emails.

For further instructions on SPF record go to OPENSPF.org