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Not only that, but this will also result in land emails in the SPAM box when SPF missing.

spf-vulnerability

Lately, I performed a Vulnerability Scan on my website through Detectify and found this critical item to fix.

Lets take a look at the following online tools to test the SPF records.

MX Toolbox

MX Toolboxis another SPF record checker tool along with many other emails related lookup.

cloudflare-add-spf

Some more here you may try out.

How to mitigate the risk?

Fixing vulnerability requires you to add SPF details on your domain as a TXT record.

spf-test

Your hosting oremail solutionprovider will share the SPF details.

If you dont have one, you may want to check with your hosting provider.

Here are some examples.

The below example covers Google, Mailgun, and Zendesk.

after you snag the SPF details, login to the domain registrar and add them as the TXT record.

However, if you are using Cloudflare then here are the quick instructions.