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No SPF record is published

Anyone can send mail that claims to come from your domain, and your own mail is more likely to land in spam.

Last updated September 20, 2026

This week · About ten minutes

Why AI-built apps get this

Mail records live in DNS, not in your code, so no coding agent touches them. The result is a password reset that lands in spam and a domain anybody can send mail as. It is one of the few serious items on a result that is fixed entirely outside the app.

What it affects

Anyone can send mail that claims to come from your domain, and your own mail is more likely to land in spam.

What the evidence line looks like

no TXT record beginning v=spf1 found for example.com

Every finding on a result carries a line like this one: the request that was made and the answer that came back. You can run the same request yourself and get the same answer, which is the point.

The fix

Add a TXT record at the root of the domain listing your sending services, for example v=spf1 include:yoursender.com -all. Observed: {value}.

Prompt for your coding agent

The domain {domain} has no SPF record. Add a TXT record at the root listing the services that send mail for you, ending in -all.

A result gives you this prompt written for your builder, in its own dialect, and a batch prompt that carries every fix at once.

Incidents that involved this

  • Not verified

    First-quarter 2026 assessment of 200 apps

    183 of 200 vibe-coded apps, 91.5 percent, contained at least one vulnerability traceable to AI hallucination or missing security context.

    2026-04
    Read the incident
  • Declared

    CVE growth in AI-generated code

    CVE entries attributed to AI-generated code rose from 6 in January 2026 to more than 35 in March 2026.

    2026-03
    Read the incident
  • Observed

    5,600 vibe-coded apps scanned

    More than 2,000 vulnerabilities and more than 400 exposed secrets found across vibe-coded apps.

    2026-02
    Read the incident
  • Not verified

    Tenzai study of AI-built apps

    69 vulnerabilities across 15 apps built by five AI coding tools.

    2026-02
    Read the incident

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Last updated September 20, 2026