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Emails going to junk? Send one email from your usual inbox to a test address. You get a score out of 10, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blocklist checks, the spam filter rules it trips and a step-by-step list of what to fix.

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Your test address works for one email. The report is kept for 7 days, then deleted with the email.

Example report

news@brightwell.co.uk

9.2
Should reach the inboxOne small fix: add an unsubscribe link to newsletters.
✓SPFpass
✓DKIMpass
✓DMARCpass
✓Reverse DNSmatches
✓Spam filters-0.4
!List-Unsubscribemissing
✓Links4 safe

What it checks

Did it prove it's you

SPF, DKIM and DMARC as the receiving server saw them, and whether they line up with your From address.

What spam filters think

The rules your message trips, the score each one costs and Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft's sender rules.

The sending server

Its reverse DNS, its place on the main blocklists and every link in the message.

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