SPF and DMARC records for live.com
Live SPF and DMARC lookup for live.com: the raw TXT records and the policy they enforce.
try:
- mail hosts
- live-com.olc.protection.outlook.com
- provider
- microsoft
- spf record
- v=spf1 include:spf-a.hotmail.com include:spf-b.hotmail.com include:spf-c.hotmail.com include:spf-d.hotmail.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all
- dmarc policy
- none
- dmarc record
- v=DMARC1; p=none; sp=quarantine; pct=100; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]; fo=1
- disposable domain
- no
- free consumer provider
- yes
SPF for live.com
live.com publishes an SPF record; it authorises 5 included sender lists, and the record ends in ~all (soft fail): mail from unlisted servers is marked suspicious but usually still delivered.
DMARC for live.com
The DMARC policy for live.com is p=none: the domain collects authentication reports but asks receivers not to act on failures. Spoofed mail is still delivered; the owner just gets told about it.
Why it matters
SPF says which servers may send as live.com; DKIM signs the messages; DMARC tells receivers what to do when neither checks out and reports back to the owner. Together they decide whether mail from live.com is trusted, and whether someone else can pretend to be live.com. For verification they are a domain-quality signal: Spaw folds a missing SPF record into the risk score and reports has_spf and dmarc_policy on every email and domain lookup.
More checks for live.com
checked 2026-09-03 · sources: live-dns 2026-09-03 · disposable-domains 2026-09-02 · free-provider-domains 2026-09-02 · mx-provider-patterns 2026-09-03
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