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email-security deliverability

Why Are My Emails Going to Spam? A Developer's Deliverability Triage Guide

A step-by-step deliverability triage for developers covering SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment, IP and domain reputation, blocklists, and bulk-sender rules.

7 min read
email-security dkim

DKIM Key Rotation: Selectors, 2048-Bit Keys and Zero-Downtime Swaps

How DKIM signing and selectors work, choosing 1024 vs 2048-bit keys, and a dual-selector DKIM key rotation process that swaps keys with zero downtime.

6 min read
email-security spf

The SPF 10-DNS-Lookup Limit: Why Your Email Authentication Silently Fails

The SPF 10-DNS-lookup limit silently breaks email authentication with permerror. How includes stack up, how to count lookups, and the fixes that work.

6 min read
email-security dmarc

Moving DMARC from p=none to p=reject: the Safe Migration Path

How to move a DMARC policy from p=none to quarantine to p=reject safely, with aggregate reports, pct= ramping, forwarder breakage and a realistic timeline.

6 min read
email-security deliverability

Gmail and Yahoo's New Sender Requirements — Your Four-Month Prep Checklist

Google and Yahoo will require SPF, DKIM, DMARC, one-click unsubscribe and sub-0.3% spam rates for bulk senders in February 2024. A prep checklist.

5 min read

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