Proper DNS configuration is crucial for ensuring your emails reach recipients’ inboxes effectively. Below are essential resources and guidance from Google Workspace that will help you set up your DNS correctly and authenticate your emails successfully.
1. Add DNS Records for Google Workspace
To ensure proper routing of your emails and improve deliverability, you must correctly configure your DNS settings. Google Workspace provides comprehensive guidance on how to add necessary DNS records, such as MX records, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, to your domain.
Resource: Add DNS records to connect your domain
2. About SPF Records
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) helps prevent email spoofing by specifying the mail servers permitted to send email on behalf of your domain. Correctly setting up SPF records significantly improves your domain’s email authenticity and reduces the likelihood of emails being marked as spam.
Resource: About SPF records
3. Set Up DKIM
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) helps secure your email by authenticating messages with a digital signature, confirming that emails are genuinely from your domain and have not been altered during transit.
Resource: Set up DKIM for your domain
Following these guidelines will strengthen your email infrastructure, enhance your sender reputation, and improve overall email deliverability.
DNS Configuration for Outlook / Microsoft 365 Users
As of v2.38, Revscale also supports a native Outlook integration for email. If you use Microsoft 365 (Outlook) as your email provider, you should configure DNS authentication records through your domain registrar rather than Google Workspace. Microsoft provides guidance on setting up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for Microsoft 365 at the Microsoft Learn documentation portal. Proper configuration applies the same principles described above and is equally important for deliverability and sender reputation.