Stop email spoofing and improve deliverability with properly configured email DNS records, set up and monitored by our engineers.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC records are configured to work together, not just added individually and left to conflict.
We identify every system sending email on your behalf -- CRM, marketing tools, invoicing -- so nothing gets silently blocked.
DMARC reports are reviewed regularly, so new senders or spoofing attempts are caught, not left unchecked.
Cloudswitched delivers spf dkim dmarc setup and wider email dns configuration services for UK businesses whose domain is being spoofed by scammers, whose legitimate emails are landing in spam, or who need email authentication in place as part of Cyber Essentials certification. SPF, DKIM and DMARC are the three DNS records that tell receiving mail servers whether an email claiming to be from your domain is genuine -- get them wrong, and you either leave your domain wide open to impersonation, or accidentally block your own legitimate email from marketing platforms, invoicing systems and CRM tools. We audit every system that sends email on your behalf before writing a single DNS record, then implement SPF, DKIM and DMARC in the right order with a monitored rollout, so you move to full enforcement without breaking anything along the way. This is one of those pieces of IT security that costs very little to implement properly but is routinely skipped entirely, simply because nobody in the business owns it or knows quite where to start. This work often sits alongside a wider Cyber Essentials certification project, and if ransomware is your bigger concern right now, our ransomware protection page covers that in more depth. Domain spoofing is also one of the more common ways attackers impersonate a business to its own customers, so getting this right protects your reputation as much as it protects your inbox.
Each record does a different job, and getting one wrong can undermine the other two. A common mistake is adding a DMARC record and jumping straight to a strict enforcement policy, which can silently block legitimate email from a marketing platform or invoicing tool nobody remembered to include in SPF.
SPF lists which mail servers are authorised to send email for your domain. Missing a legitimate sender -- your CRM, your accounting software, a marketing platform -- means their emails may be marked as spoofed even though they're genuine.
DKIM adds a cryptographic signature to outgoing email, letting receiving servers confirm the message genuinely came from your domain and wasn't tampered with in transit.
DMARC tells receiving servers what to do when SPF or DKIM checks fail, and where to send reports about email claiming to be from your domain. We start most spf dkim dmarc setup projects in monitoring mode, reviewing reports before moving to a stricter enforcement policy.
Done properly, the result is invisible day to day -- genuine email arrives normally, spoofed email gets rejected or flagged, and nobody in the business needs to think about it again until something changes. That's precisely why the setup process matters so much -- get it right once, with proper monitoring in place, and it stays quietly effective in the background for years.
We identify every system sending email on your behalf before writing any DNS records.
We configure SPF and DKIM correctly for every legitimate sender, tested before DMARC is added.
We start DMARC in monitoring mode, reviewing reports to catch anything missed before enforcement.
Once reports confirm everything legitimate is passing, we move DMARC to a stricter enforcement policy.
From audit to full enforcement -- here's how we deliver SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup.
We identify every system sending email on your behalf, from your own mailboxes to third-party platforms.
We configure SPF and DKIM records for every legitimate sender and test delivery before moving on.
We add DMARC in monitoring mode and review reports to catch anything missed.
We move DMARC to enforcement once confident, then review reports periodically for new senders or spoofing attempts.
We audit every legitimate sending system before writing a single DNS record, so your spf dkim dmarc setup doesn't accidentally block genuine email from tools your business relies on daily.
We roll out DMARC in monitoring mode first, reviewing reports over several weeks before moving to enforcement, rather than risking legitimate email being rejected outright.
Our email dns configuration services cover every DNS provider and mail platform, not just one specific combination, so switching providers later doesn't mean starting authentication from scratch.
Because email security sits alongside our wider Cyber Essentials and IT support services, the same team can help with certification requirements too.
You get a dedicated account manager who reviews DMARC reports periodically, not a one-off change left unmonitored.
And because we document every sender and record added, future changes -- a new marketing platform, a new invoicing system, a new office sending its own local newsletter -- can be added correctly rather than breaking what's already working.
