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caymanjim • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

No. You're supposed to understand how mail works on the Internet, and configure it correctly so that everyone else accepts it.

Go to https://mail-tester.com. Send a test email. If you don't get 10/10, fix your shit.


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datfrojo • yesterday at 9:16 PM

This seems overly dismissive especially for individuals who send emails from custom domains at low volumes. DMARC has previously been seen to only be really needed for high-volume senders. The mail testing service linked still gives 10/10 for emails received without DMARC (but with SPF and DKIK). My email is setup via Fastmail and I followed all the recommendations they provided (which didn’t include DMARC)

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saghm • yesterday at 9:21 PM

I just tried this out now with an email from my personal domain that I have configured to send via my gmail account. I got a 10/10, but DMARC does not seem to be required for this. It shows a yellow checkbox for me on this, the same as it shows for me not having an unsubscribe button, which hardly gives the impression of it being necessary, given that I would not expect an unsubscribe button to make sense for most people manually sending emails to their customers from corporate email accounts.

svdr • yesterday at 10:40 PM

This service is not accurate, it cannot handle multiple dkim keys.

daneel_w • yesterday at 10:33 PM

Not enough. O365 still discard/lose e-mails.