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State of email: 80.6% mail-enabled, 76.5% SPF, 64.6% DMARC

A one-glance snapshot of how the internet configures email right now.

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

80.6% are mail-enabled (publish MX)
76.5% publish SPF
64.6% publish DMARC — but only 22.7% 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 (28.3%), Microsoft 365 / Outlook (22.6%), Proofpoint (5.5%), Mimecast (3.1%).

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Data: MailTester Ninja Email Infrastructure Index — 50,000 domains, snapshot Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:16:19 GMT. Reuse freely under CC BY 4.0.

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