How to Create Email With Custom Domain Names, From DNS to Inbox
The three ways to get email on your own domain, and a tested walkthrough from MX
How your messages find their way home.
The three ways to get email on your own domain, and a tested walkthrough from MX
How to get business email on your own domain for free, why forwarded mail lands in spam, when to upgrade from a free plan, and which option fits your situation.
Forwarded emails are increasingly landing in spam because DMARC enforcement breaks SPF authentication at the forwarding hop. ARC signing preserves the authentication chain, so Gmail and Yahoo still trust forwarded mail even when SPF fails.
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all pass and your email still ends up in the spam folder. I ran into this exact problem with an announcement for our email forwarding service, so I dug into the headers and the broader reasons authentication alone is not enough.
Your email doesn't just fly from your screen to someone else's inbox. It passes through four workers, each with a specific job. The Postmaster introduces them one by one.
How email was born in 1971 — nearly two decades before the web — and grew into the world's most enduring communication system.