I don't know how to authenticate SPF

Lately my emails have started getting prefixes like [SPAM] and then some numbers. I found this seems to have been the result of two S PF records, but then I ran into a new problem where my S PF and DMARC records are failing.

These are my mail records. Everything else is proxied.

When I send a test email to mxtoolbox, it sees the S PF but fails it because it can’t authenticate the IP it came from: “S PF Authentication S PF Failed for IP - xx.xx.xxx.xxx”

The problem is my mails are coming from a different IP every time. e.g. 53.39.xxx.xx those last numbers change, so I don’t know how to add a range of IP to S PF? Or is there some other thing that this shouldn’t happen and I’m doing this whole thing wrong?

I genuinely don’t know what I’m doing as I’m not a tech person at all.
(Also I had to put spaces in between every instance of SPF because it kept auto-linking them and saying "new members can only post 4 links :smiling_face_with_tear:)

Hi!

The company providing your email services should tell you what SPF record to use.

You can include IP ranges like this: ip4:53.39.0.1/16.
However, you should absolutely not just do that unless you know for certain that the entire IP range belongs to your email provider.

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