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Alexandre B
Alexandre B

Posted on Originally published at deliverability.mailtester.ninja

State of email: 80.8% mail-enabled, 76.9% SPF, 65.1% DMARC

By the team at MailTester Ninja, a real-time email verification API that stores nothing.

A quick pulse on 50,000 of the world's most-linked domains:

  • 80.8% are mail-enabled (publish MX)
  • 76.9% publish SPF
  • 65.1% publish DMARC, but only 23.2% enforce p=reject

The headline barely moves year to year: adoption is high, enforcement is low. Most domains do the easy part (publish a record) and skip the part that actually stops spoofing (enforce it). Top MX providers right now: Other / self-hosted (32.5%), Google Workspace / Gmail (28.2%), Microsoft 365 / Outlook (22.7%), Proofpoint (5.6%), Mimecast (3.1%).


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Source: MailTester Ninja's open Email Infrastructure Index, a live DNS scan of 50,000 of the world's most-linked domains, updated daily, aggregate only. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:19:04 GMT.

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