BIMI record checker

Problems this finds

Optional: show your logo next to your emails

Some inboxes can show your logo beside your emails. It doesn't affect delivery. It requires blocking fake emails first, and some inboxes, including Gmail, also require a paid certificate.

Your logo setting has a typo, so your logo isn't shown

Inboxes can't read the setting, so they ignore it. It doesn't affect whether your emails are delivered, only whether your logo appears.

Your logo won't show until fake emails are blocked

Inboxes only show your logo once your instructions for fake emails tell receivers to block them. Switch that on only after confirming your own emails pass, or real ones could be blocked.

Your instructions for fake emails only cover some of them

Receivers apply your instructions to only a share of fake emails. That's normal while testing. Once you're confident, covering all of them finishes the job.

Fake emails pretending to be you are still delivered

Your instructions for fake emails are set to watch only. That's the right first step, but fakes in your name still get through. Once your real emails are confirmed to pass, you can tell receivers to block fakes.

Your instructions for fake emails have a typo

Receivers can't read them, so they may throw them out entirely. Fake emails in your name then aren't blocked, even though your settings look like they should be.

You're not getting reports on who sends email as you

Without reports you can't see which services send in your name, or know when it's safe to start blocking fakes. Adding an address for reports doesn't change how your email is delivered.

Your instructions for fake emails use the standard matching setting

Emails from variations of your address, like news.yourbusiness.com, count as yours. This is the default and suits most businesses. Nothing to do.

Your reports are going somewhere that hasn't agreed to accept them

Your reports are addressed to another domain that hasn't confirmed it accepts them, so receivers quietly don't send them. The fix is made on that other domain; if it's a reporting service, ask them.

Your instructions for fake emails are being ignored

You have two sets of instructions where only one is allowed, so receivers ignore both. Any protection you set up is effectively switched off, and your reports stop arriving.

Nothing tells receivers to block fake emails pretending to be you

Without instructions for fake emails, scammers can email your customers in your name with nothing from you standing in the way, and you get no reports showing who is sending as you.

Fakes from addresses like billing.yourbusiness.com aren't blocked

Your main address is protected, but variations of it have weaker instructions. Scammers can invent one (it doesn't need to exist) and use it to send fake emails in your name.