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The problem with tools like this is that they don't actually check that the mail is sent correctly. You can define security keys, but they don't mean anything if your mail server doesn't use them correctly.
For testing, I use https://www.mail-tester.com/ which you send an email to and it does more thorough tests on the server and email itself.
Yeah and I'm not seeing any mention of blocklist checking. I was sending email for months with no issue then the ISP apparently updated their PBL.
Yah, I don't think this is working. It's failing spf and dkim records that have worked for years
Shows a failure if the DKIM selector isn't on an arbitrary list? What's going on there?
Interesting. I'm getting full marks on mxtoolbox but failing the same tests on this one.
Firefox 149.0.2 (64-bit), Linux Mint, using VPN. I must have settings that are blocking the processing of the domain for whatever reason. I've tried multiple domains including well known domains. No joy. Sorry about that.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
1 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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