Domain Insights
A quick checkup on your email setup. No strings attached.
By Yanna-Torry Aspraki, Deliverability Specialist & Founder, Review My EmailsWe validate and clean email lists for a living. As part of that, we check the domain side of every email address we process: authentication records, blocklist databases, sending infrastructure. The tools are already running, and the data is right there in front of us.
So we made it a habit: when we come across a domain with things that could be affecting their deliverability, we put together a quick review and send it over. It costs us nothing, and better email practices make the ecosystem better for everyone. Think of it as our version of planting a tree.
acmecorp.com came through one of our checks, and a few things stood out. Everything below is verifiable. We included context so you can check it all yourself.
Report Card
Quick summary of every check. Click a row to jump straight to the detail below.
SPF could use a stricter enforcement policy
Your SPF record uses ~all (soft fail) instead of -all (hard fail). This means unauthorized senders are flagged but not always blocked. Tightening this up would give your domain stronger protection against spoofing.
The difference between "~all" and "-all" is how strictly receiving servers treat unauthorized emails. With "~all", unauthorized emails are marked suspicious but might still be delivered. With "-all", they're rejected outright. Before switching, make sure all your legitimate sending services are included in your SPF record so they don't get blocked.
DMARC policy is in monitoring mode
Your DMARC is set to p=none, which means it's watching and collecting reports but not actually blocking spoofed emails. Moving to p=quarantine or p=reject would actively protect your domain from being impersonated.
What you can do right now
Quick wins pulled from the opportunities above. You or your IT person can knock these out in an afternoon.
- 1
Switch SPF from ~all to -all. One DNS edit. List all your current senders first so nothing legitimate gets blocked.
See the detail→ - 2
Move DMARC from p=none to p=quarantine once your senders are authenticated.
See the detail→
Where next
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