InboxAudit

SurveyMonkey email authentication

Survey invitation mail.

SPF record

Add SurveyMonkey to your domain's SPF record with this include:

include:spf.surveymonkey.com

A complete record for a domain sending only through SurveyMonkey:

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

What it costs you

1 of your 10 DNS lookups. That is the cheapest an include can be — the record it points at contains only IP ranges, with no further includes to follow. Behind it are 6 IP ranges.

Live record

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

v=spf1 ip4:66.179.50.160/27 ip4:67.217.237.192/27 ip4:75.98.93.0/24 ip4:173.226.199.130 ip4:64.74.209.0/24 ip4:64.191.16.0/24 -all

DKIM

Enable DKIM inside SurveyMonkey 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 SurveyMonkey 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

SurveyMonkey setup docs →