Email authentication guides
Practical, sourced guides for small businesses on SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the Gmail and Yahoo sender rules.
- Google and Yahoo bulk-sender rules: what small businesses need to do
Plain-English guide to the Gmail and Yahoo sender requirements: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, one-click unsubscribe and spam-rate limits, and what applies to small senders. - DMARC basics: none, quarantine, reject and a staged rollout
What DMARC does, what p=none, p=quarantine and p=reject mean, how alignment works, and how to move to enforcement safely in stages. - How to check your SPF, DKIM and DMARC records
Step-by-step: look up SPF, DKIM and DMARC with dig or nslookup, read the results, and spot common errors like multiple SPF records or too many lookups.
Check your own domain in seconds. The free ExclusiveTrust scan looks up your SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and tells you, in plain English, what is missing.