Problem

Emails from your Account or Rrganization (including notifications and password-reset emails) are not being received by Users or Contacts, and bounce-back emails from notification recipients are not being received.

Root Cause

If your Account or Organization has a Custom From Email Address, either "everbridge.net" or "everbridge.eu" may not be authorized to send emails in your domain name server's (DNS) sender policy framework (SPF) record. An SPF record is a list of all the domains and IP addresses that are permitted to send emails on behalf of your domain.

Solution

If you already have a Custom From Email Address enabled, please take the following steps.

1. Identify/provision the full email address(es) you want to provide to Everbridge as your custom Custom From Email Address (e.g., noreply@alerts.yourdomain.com). The email address must be a valid email inbox.
2. Modify the DNS SPF record to authorize either everbridge.net or everbridge.eu to send e-mails with your domain in the Custom From Email Address. This step cannot be omitted. An SPF record that includes one of these is absolutely required.

Using a subdomain such as "alerts.yourdomain.com" will prevent the need for you to grant one of these mail domains SPF permission for your entire domain.

The example below demonstrates one possible way to modify a DNS SPF record, but might not be the best for all use cases. Everbridge recommends any network configurations be evaluated by your network operations team in order to determine the most effective modification.

Example: "v=spf1 include:everbridge.net -all"

See knowledge article EBS: Changing Email Sender Information in Everbridge Notifications for more information.

Workaround

You can ask to have your Custom From Email Address temporarily disabled so that recipients receive emails in the meantime. Please attach this article to your request.

Be sure to authorize "everbridge.net" in your DNS SPF before re-establishing your Custom From address.