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Looks like you have no dmarc record. Highly recommended and easy to do in cpanel.

https://blog.mailtrap.io/dmarc-explained/

It’s worth signing up for a free account at mxtoolbox.com so you can go through and really get everything 100% with dns, mx, spf, dkim, dmarc, cname, aaa etc etc. At some point, you’ll get a popup to sign up for a free trial of a more advanced set of tools. Might not be a bad idea also but I don’t know if they ask for cc/paypal info. Probably so.

I used completely free services for dns and email stuff last time but I don’t remember who and didn’t notice them in search results. If I remember or run across them, I’ll post here. Seems like it was two sites, one for dns and one for email.

It shows one of my domains as not having a “Dmarc quarantine/rejection policy” so I need to look into that. I found out the hard way that my last host’s servers were email blacklisted which got my domain name blacklisted. No email was getting through at all so I had to request removal. It was shared hosting so someone else was a spammer and got everyone on that server blacklisted. I had everything 100% earlier this year on my end but swapped/upgraded hosting so I didn’t have to worry about it happening again. Email works on the new hosting so I never did a check of any sorts.

At some point, all this stuff might be used to block websites/email, selectively of course, just like big social media is doing now to conservatives. Best to not give them any excuses. The downside of the internet is that traffic, dns lookups, email etc goes through several systems.

Naturally, keep a good record of any change you make so that if it breaks something, you can reverse what you did. With dns stuff, if that happens, there’s that 12-36 hour wait for things to propagate again. Email records aren’t so bad as having a website unavailable.