Is my DMARC report saying legitmate emails are failing or illegitimate emails are passing?

I am learning how to improve email deliverability. Along the way, I’m learning about DMARC reports, SPF and DKIM. I have a friend with a small business who said I can practice with this email service which is hosted with Google Workspace… Continue reading Is my DMARC report saying legitmate emails are failing or illegitimate emails are passing?

How To Address Email Deliverability Problems When From Header Doesn’t Match From Envelope?

So I’m using Active Campaign as a CRM and have configured DKIM, SPF, and a DMARC none policy. I am having one particular customer of mine that’s not able to receive my emails despite them whitelisting me. They are using mimecast. I’ve don… Continue reading How To Address Email Deliverability Problems When From Header Doesn’t Match From Envelope?

Spoofed email sent to me from my email address with SPF/DKIM/DMARC passing

I received an email earlier today on my work email address. The email came from the same address—mine—but I didn’t send it.
It was an email claiming that he was a professional hacker who had hacked my operating system and planted harmful s… Continue reading Spoofed email sent to me from my email address with SPF/DKIM/DMARC passing

How can an email forwarding service send email with a "From" from a domain they don’t control, and still pass SPF?

Let’s say:

alice@example.com sends an email to bob@bob.com.

Bob owns the domain bob.com but doesn’t manage an emailing server. Instead he uses an email forwarding service (provided by his registrar / DNS service, for example Cloudflare d… Continue reading How can an email forwarding service send email with a "From" from a domain they don’t control, and still pass SPF?

How can an email forwarding service send email with a "From" from a domain they don’t control, and still pass SPF?

Let’s say:

alice@example.com sends an email to bob@bob.com.

Bob owns the domain bob.com but doesn’t manage an emailing server. Instead he uses an email forwarding service (provided by his registrar / DNS service, for example Cloudflare d… Continue reading How can an email forwarding service send email with a "From" from a domain they don’t control, and still pass SPF?