by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
You may have published SPF, DKIM and DMARC. You have therefore settled the question of who is allowed to write in your name. You have settled nothing at all about whether your messages travel encrypted, or whether someone can deprive you of that. Two standards address...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
There is a protocol that has been presented for seven years as the solution to the oldest problem in email authentication. It has a serious name, an RFC, and the backing of Google, LinkedIn and Valimail. In May 2026 the IETF published the new DMARC standard. It...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
Someone will sell you a certificate. They will explain that it makes your logo appear in the inbox, and that this appearance buys trust, therefore opens, therefore revenue. All of that may happen. None of it depends on you. The mechanism is called BIMI, and the only...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
Sometimes a standard and its usage drift apart slowly, without anyone noticing. In email there is one case where the divergence is total, documented on both sides, and perfectly visible: you only need to read two documents published four months apart. The first...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
There is one deliverability indicator everyone watches, everyone comments on, and nobody knows what to do with. It is called domain reputation. Google has been showing it in Postmaster Tools for ten years, in four words: Bad, Low, Medium, High. Google is going to...