SPF TempError
Temporary DNS or evaluation failure during SPF checks.
- Reading time:
- 5 min
- Difficulty:
- Intermediate
- Estimated duration:
- 5 min
- Prerequisites:
- None
- Last updated:
- 2026-07-15
- Author:
- empire
Related Concepts
Related Problems
- Broken SPF includeAn included SPF domain is missing, invalid, or fails closed.
- Forwarded email fails SPFForwarding paths break SPF because the forwarder is not authorized.
- Incorrect IP authorizationSending infrastructure IPs are not authorized by SPF.
- Invalid SPF mechanismSPF record contains unsupported or malformed mechanisms.
- Multiple SPF recordsMore than one SPF TXT record exists, causing evaluation failure.
- SPF passes but DMARC failsSPF authenticates a domain that does not align for DMARC.
- SPF PermErrorSPF evaluation fails permanently due to policy or lookup errors.
- SPF record missingNo SPF TXT record is published for the sending domain.
- Too many DNS lookupsSPF evaluation exceeds the ten-lookup limit.