MailTested Email Report: mxg8b62e

Email Deliverability Report — MailTested.com

Auth: 6 DNS: 10.0 Spam: -3.6

ID: mxg8b62e From: <sales@protectedname>

Envelope: sales@protectedname

Your email score is 7.0/10

🟠 Not good. Authentication or DNS issues found. Fix SPF, DKIM, or PTR to avoid spam placement.

7.0/10

Overall Score

Status: DONE

Component Scores

Authentication

6/10

SPF & DKIM validation

DNS Hygiene

10.0/10

PTR & Blacklists

Spam Risk

-3.6

SpamAssassin analysis

Deliverability Chain

rDNS

Reverse DNS (rDNS)

A Record

Hostname Resolution

SPF

Sender Policy

DKIM

Email Signature

DMARC

Policy Framework

Blacklist

IP & Domain Rep

Authentication

SPF Validation

Sender Policy Framework verification

PASS sender SPF authorized

✅ SPF passed. The sending IP is authorized to send mail for this domain.
SPF confirms that the sending IP 172.236.31.20 is authorized to send mail for protectedname, based on the envelope sender domain (Return-Path).
This means the domain listed in your Return-Path explicitly allows this mail server to send on its behalf.

Checked SPF domain: protectedname

From domain: protectedname

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Current TXT (local)	`v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:151.236.221.112 +ip4:172.236.31.20 ~all`
SPF TXT (public)	`v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:151.236.221.112 +ip4:172.236.31.20 ~all`
Redirect Tree

DKIM Validation

DomainKeys Identified Mail signature

FAIL d=None, s=None

❌ Your DKIM signature is not valid.
This usually means the public key for selector None on domain None could not be found or didn't match.

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⚠️ DKIM Diagnostic:

We were not able to retrieve or verify your public key.

💡 Suggestion: Verify that None._domainkey.None has a correct v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=... record.

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DKIM Signature
Public Key TXT	No public key found

DMARC Policy

Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting

Policy: none

⚠️ Your DMARC policy is set to "none". Mail servers only monitor — they do not reject spoofed emails.
This means mail servers will only monitor reports — not reject spoofed emails.
Consider upgrading your policy to p=quarantine or p=reject once SPF and DKIM are properly configured.

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Alignment	SPF: Pass • DKIM: Fail
Mode	adkim=relaxed / aspf=relaxed
DMARC TXT	v=DMARC1; p=none
DMARC Raw	v=DMARC1; p=none

Header Consistency

Email header alignment verification

FAIL From vs DKIM: Mismatch, Return-Path: Missing

❌ Misalignment detected: "From" domain doesn't match DKIM or Return-Path.

Notes: Return-Path missing; DKIM signature missing

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From Domain	protectedname
DKIM Domain	N/A
Return-Path Domain	Missing

DNS Hostname & MX Checks

Reverse DNS (rDNS)

IP → Hostname association

PASS 172.236.31.20 → srv12.protectedname

✅ Reverse DNS is correctly configured. The IP resolves to a valid hostname matching the HELO value.
The IP address resolves to a valid hostname and matches the HELO value used by your server.

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IP	`172.236.31.20`
HELO	`srv12.protectedname`
rDNS	`srv12.protectedname`
Forward match	Yes
Matches HELO	Yes

MX Record Check

Mail exchange record validation

PASS protectedname

✅ Domain has active MX records.
Your domain correctly points to a mail server that can receive messages.

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Domain	`protectedname`
MX Records	`0 srv12.protectedname.`

A Record Check

Hostname resolution verification

PASS srv12.protectedname

✅ Hostname resolves correctly.
The sending hostname is bound to a valid IP address and reachable.

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Hostname	`srv12.protectedname`
A Records	`172.236.31.20`

Blacklist

IP Blacklist Check

Reputation of sending IP address

✅ CLEAN

CLEAN 172.236.31.20 → srv12.protectedname

Checked: 23 lists

✅ Your IP is clean. No blacklisting detected across 23 major DNSBL databases.

Blacklist Zone	Status
`Spamhaus SBL`	Clean
`Spamhaus CSS`	Clean
`Spamhaus XBL`	Clean
`Spamhaus PBL`	Clean
`Barracuda`	Clean
`Hostkarma`	Clean
`IMP-SPAM`	Clean
`BACKSCATTERER`	Clean

Blacklist Zone	Status
`⚠️ China Anti-Spam Alliance: The resolution lifetime expired after 5.403 seconds: Server Do53:127.0.0.53@53 answered The DNS operation timed out.; Server Do53:127.0.0.53@53 answered The DNS operation timed out.; Server Do53:127.0.0.53@53 answered The DNS operation timed out.`	Timeout
`LashBack`	Clean
`Mailspike`	Clean
`REDHAWK`	Clean
`SORBS (Relay)`	Clean
`SORBS (last 48h)`	Clean
`SORBS (last 28d)`	Clean
`SPAMCOP`	Clean

Blacklist Zone	Status
`SEM-BACKSCATTER`	Clean
`SEM-BLACK`	Clean
`RATS-ALL`	Clean
`PSBL`	Clean
`SWINOG`	Clean
`GBUdb Truncate`	Clean
`Weighted Private Block List`	Clean

Domain Blacklist Check

Reputation of sender domain

✅ CLEAN

CLEAN protectedname

Checked: 3 lists

✅ Your domain is clean.
No blacklisting detected across 3 major domain-based reputation lists.

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Blacklist Zone	Status
`dbl.spamhaus.org`	Clean
`multi.surbl.org`	Clean
`uribl.com`	Clean

Email Content

SpamAssassin Check

Spam filter scoring and rule analysis

PASS Score: -3.6 / 5.0

✅ SpamAssassin likes you. Score -3.6 / 5.0 (PASS).

Score	Rule	Description
-0.0	`SPF_HELO_PASS`	SPF: HELO matches SPF record
0.1	`MIME_HTML_MOSTLY`	BODY: Multipart message mostly text/html MIME
0.0	`HTML_MESSAGE`	BODY: HTML included in message
1.3	`RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL`	RBL: Relay in Validity RPBL,
-2.0	`RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE`	RBL: Sender in Validity Safe - Contact

Score	Rule	Description
0.0	`URIBL_BLOCKED`	ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked.
-0.0	`DMARC_PASS`	DMARC pass policy
-3.0	`RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED`	RBL: Sender in Validity Certification -
0.0	`T_REMOTE_IMAGE`	Message contains an external image

Content Structure & Signals

Body format, text-to-HTML ratio, and embedded content indicators

Has Text	yes
Has HTML	yes
Text Ratio	0.5%
Subject	`[Ticket ID: 202266] test-mxg8b62e@srv.mailtested.com`

External links	6
Link domains	`client.protectedname`, `www.w3.org`
HTML href/src counts	href: 3 • src: 1
Plain-text part missing	no
Subject flags	ALL_CAPS: no • Emoji: no

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test-mxg8b62e@srv.mailtested.com

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Technical Diagnostics

Envelope From	`sales@protectedname`
Recipient	`"test-mxg8b62e@srv.mailtested.com" <test-mxg8b62e@srv.mailtested.com>`
Peer IP	`172.236.31.20`
HELO	`srv12.protectedname`
rDNS	`srv12.protectedname`
Date	`Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:10:27 +0000`