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Namecheap Private Email email authentication

Namecheap’s bundled mailbox product, usually bought alongside a domain.

SPF record

Add Namecheap Private Email to your domain's SPF record with this include:

include:spf.privateemail.com

A complete record for a domain sending only through Namecheap Private Email:

v=spf1 include:spf.privateemail.com ~all

What it costs you

4 of your 10 DNS lookups. The include: itself costs one, and Namecheap Private Email's record chains to 3 more. Behind it are 16 IP ranges.

Live record

This is what spf.privateemail.com published when this page was generated:

v=spf1 include:ips1.privateemail.com include:fbrelay.privateemail.com include:spf-pe.jellyfish.systems ~all

DKIM

Enable DKIM inside Namecheap Private Email and publish the selector record it generates. DKIM matters more than SPF for deliverability, because a DKIM signature survives forwarding while SPF does not — see how selectors work.

DMARC

Neither SPF nor DKIM protects the address your recipients actually see until DMARC ties them to it. Once Namecheap Private Email is authenticating, publish a DMARC record — start at p=none with a reporting address and tighten from there.

Generate a DMARC record →

Check it worked

DNS changes take minutes to hours to propagate. Once published, run the domain through the checker — it resolves the full include chain and reports the real lookup count.

Official documentation

Namecheap Private Email setup docs →