How important is SPF records

[Moto Guzzi]

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=hardocp.com

WARN SPF record Your domain does not have an SPF record. This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that looks like it came from your domain, which can make your domain look bad (if the recipient thinks you really sent it), and can cost you money (when people complain to you, rather than the spammer). You may want to add an SPF record ASAP, as 01 Oct 2004 was the target date for domains to have SPF records in place (Hotmail, for example, started checking SPF records on 01 Oct 2004).

 

[oakfan52]

I don't think that record is widely used yet. But i'm not 100% sure.

 

[JTY]

It's not very important at the moment, however several large ISPs are looking for the record. Before I added the records, e-mail from my domain was placed in the junk folder for AOL users, now it's delivered properly.

Depending on how you setup the record, for ISPs that check for the record, they will be unable to receive spoofed mail from your domain.