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Make sense of a message.

Paste original headers to inspect reported authentication, DKIM signing identities and the claimed transit path. The parser does not send your headers to a DNS resolver or any third party.

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In Gmail: open the message → More → Show original. In Outlook: view message details or internet headers. Remove personal or sensitive data before submitting.

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Mail authentication, explained
From record to next step

Evidence, not guesswork.

Not by itself. Authentication-Results and Received fields can be forged. Trust only verdicts inserted by your own receiving mail service. This analyzer parses reported evidence; it does not verify DKIM signatures, ARC chains, server identity or organizational-domain alignment.

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Start with original headers

Copy the full original header block. Remove sensitive identifiers and the message body; the parser stops at the first blank line.

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Read the finding, not just the badge

“Inspected” means evidence was parsed, not that delivery is guaranteed. “Needs review” explains a policy trade-off; “Issue found” identifies a configuration problem. Resolver errors stay distinct.

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Verify in your mail workflow

Confirm findings with your receiving provider and real message headers. After DNS changes, allow caches to expire. Review legitimate senders before enforcing stricter policies.

A closer look

The right tool for each record.

Email health check

One place for your mail infrastructure. Inspect public DNS, trace sender policies, understand message headers and draft your DMARC setup. No signup. No email sent.

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MX lookup

See mail servers ordered by preference and resolve their IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Distinguish a working DNS route, broken destinations and a domain that intentionally refuses email.

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SPF checker

Inspect your published sender policy. Find duplicate records, overly permissive endings and common syntax mistakes before they affect authentication.

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DMARC checker

Inspect the policy at the exact _dmarc name and decode its tags. For inherited policy discovery and external-report authorization evidence, use the full DMARC inspector.

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DKIM checker

Enter your domain and signing selector to inspect the published DKIM key. See common format issues, key strength and revoked or testing-mode selectors.

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DNS lookup

Inspect address records, aliases, nameservers and mail-security discovery records. For reverse DNS, choose PTR and enter a public IP address.

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SPF dependency lookup

Go beyond a single TXT record. Explore nested sender policies, see the referenced domains and understand where lookup-limit risks come from.

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DMARC draft generator

Build a copy-ready DMARC draft, understand every setting and start with monitoring. Nothing is published automatically; you remain in control of your DNS.

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DMARC inspector

Find the policy behind a domain, translate every tag and inspect reporting destinations. Clear evidence and repair guidance, without a misleading “fully protected” badge.

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DMARC report analyzer

Open an uncompressed aggregate XML report to understand receiver observations. See which sources need investigation and how aligned SPF and DKIM contributed to the result.

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MTA-STS — DNS discovery

Inspect the public DNS signal for MTA-STS, a transport-security policy for mail delivery. This check does not fetch the HTTPS policy, test its certificates or verify MX enforcement.

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TLS-RPT — DNS discovery

Discover the DNS record that requests mail-transport failure reports. TLS-RPT complements MTA-STS, while DMARC aggregate reports describe a different layer: sender authentication.

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BIMI — DNS discovery

Inspect the default BIMI DNS selector for your domain. Logo display also depends on receiver support, authentication, eligible assets and any required certificate; a TXT record is not a display guarantee.

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Good questions

Before you change DNS.

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Can an email header prove that a message is authentic?

Not by itself. Authentication-Results and Received fields can be forged. Trust only verdicts inserted by your own receiving mail service. This analyzer parses reported evidence; it does not verify DKIM signatures, ARC chains, server identity or organizational-domain alignment.

Is this free, and will you send email?

The public tools are free and do not require an account. No email is sent, no SMTP session is opened and no recipient mailbox is probed. DNS tools query public records; header analysis and policy generation make no external requests. Up to 12 checks per minute are allowed per network address.

What happens to the data I submit?

Submitted headers, XML reports and draft settings are processed by Maail to render this report, not stored as application history and not sent to external resolvers. Reports and headers may contain personal data: remove sensitive content first. In-page history and lookup sharing are disabled for these tools. Rate protection stores short-lived hashed network counters; infrastructure logs may contain request metadata. Clipboard and downloaded reports can contain the information you submitted.

Does a good DNS result guarantee delivery?

No. DNS is one part of mail delivery. Server availability, sender reputation, authentication of actual messages, spam filtering and recipient policies also matter. Findings describe the inspected records, not a delivery guarantee.

Build it into your workflow

Go beyond a manual lookup.

Explore Maail’s email intelligence API for address-level signals, or use these free tools whenever you need to inspect public DNS.

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