Free Tool — Email Spam Checker
Are your emails landing in junk?
Gmail and Outlook now junk — or flat-out reject — email from domains missing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Most owners find out from a customer saying “I never got your quote.” This checks your domain's real DNS records live, in seconds, and tells you exactly what's missing in plain English.
Live check of your real DNS records — takes a few seconds, nothing stored, works for any domain you own.
Why this matters
For a local business, a quote in the junk folder is a job that went to whoever answered first. The frustrating part is that nothing looks broken on your end — the email says “sent”, and the silence reads as a customer who changed their mind. Here's why business email goes to spam — and the 2026 rules behind it.
Once the records pass, the next lever is what you send: follow-ups, reminders, and newsletters that actually get read. That's what email marketing for Kamloops businesses covers — deliverability included, because a list you can't reach is just a spreadsheet.
Questions
Why are my business emails suddenly going to spam?
Most often because your domain is missing the authentication records — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC — that Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo started enforcing in 2024 and now enforce strictly. Mail from an unauthenticated domain gets junked or rejected outright, even when every message is legitimate. It usually happens quietly: you only find out when customers say "I never got your quote."
What do SPF, DKIM, and DMARC actually do?
SPF lists which servers are allowed to send email as your domain. DKIM adds a cryptographic signature proving a message wasn’t altered. DMARC ties the two together and tells receivers what to do with mail that fails. Together they prove you are you — without them, a receiving server can’t tell your real invoice from a scammer spoofing your address.
Is this check safe? What does it look at?
It reads your domain’s public DNS records — the same public information any mail server checks before accepting a message from you. It runs in your browser, touches nothing on your website or inbox, sends no email, and stores nothing.
The check passed — why do my emails still go to junk?
Authentication is the entry ticket, not the whole game. If your records pass, the usual remaining causes are sending habits: a purchased list, no unsubscribe link on newsletters, spammy subject lines, or a burst of mail from a domain that normally sends little. Google Postmaster Tools (free) shows your actual spam-complaint rate — keep it under 0.1%.
I don’t manage my own domain — what do I send my IT person?
Run the check, unlock the fix guide, and you’ll get an email you can forward as-is: which records are missing, the exact record text to add, and where it goes. For most DNS hosts it’s ten minutes of work.