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Email is still how the web talks to people. Deliverability is whether the messages you send actually land in the inbox rather than the spam folder — and whether spammers can forge email in your name. This chapter makes your mail arrive, look professional, and resist abuse.
Prevent unauthorized relay and help receivers reject exact-domain spoofing by restricting outbound relay and publishing correctly aligned SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in your DNS.
Treat inbox placement and abuse resistance as separate jobs — verify aligned authentication, protect sending reputation, run a secure accessible contact form to a role alias, and assume any published address can be harvested.
Use a you@yourdomain address instead of a free ISP or webmail account — a domain you control lets you choose and authenticate your own mail services, carries your brand on every message, and stays portable as long as you keep the domain.
Getting off a blocklist means finding which list actually affects your delivery and why — using the rejection text and your provider's logs — fixing the root cause such as a compromised account, then following that list's own removal process and keeping your sending reputation clean.
GuideA bounce is a delivery-status notification explaining why your message could not be delivered — reading the enhanced SMTP code and full diagnostic usually tells you whether to fix an address, involve your email provider, or let the automatic retries do their work.
GuidePaste this into a general-purpose AI assistant (for example ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini) and fill in the [bracketed] parts with your own details to go deeper on email & deliverability.
Copy it, then open your assistant:
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Perplexity
Copilot
Grok
AI can be confidently wrong — treat the reply as a starting point and verify anything important, especially legal or security points.
