Mailuminati, the secret society of email

Dare to apply.
Expect nothing.

The Council does not read your résumé. It reads your DNS. Submit your domain and receive judgment.

Only public DNS records are consulted. The Council keeps no record of the curious, only of petitioners.

We do not recruit.

We observe. Your records were public long before you arrived here.

We do not negotiate.

p=none is not a policy. It is a confession.

We do not exist.

Any trace of us in your logs has been quietly purged.

The Hierarchy

Your rank is written in your records

No committee. No favours. Harden your domain and the Council will notice.

  1. Ⅶ

    Grand Postmaster

    p=reject · MTA-STS enforce · TLS-RPT · BIMI

    Your domain is a fortress. The Council may, one day, admit you exist.

  2. Ⅵ

    Bearer of the Mark

    p=reject · BIMI

    Your logo is displayed. Your vanity is authenticated.

  3. Ⅴ

    Transport Guardian

    p=reject · MTA-STS enforce

    You refuse to speak in cleartext. The Council approves of discretion.

  4. Ⅳ

    DMARC Enforcer

    p=reject

    Spoofers knock. Nobody answers. As it should be.

  5. Ⅲ

    Quarantine Warden

    p=quarantine

    You lock them away, but you do not yet execute. Mercy is a weakness.

  6. Ⅱ

    Header Whisperer

    p=none

    You watch. You report. You enforce nothing. Your weakness has been noted.

  7. Ⅰ

    Unauthenticated Wanderer

    no DMARC

    You roam the inboxes unprotected, like a spammer in the night. Come back when you have taken your authentication vows.

  8. ∅

    Unresolved Whisper

    NXDOMAIN

    Not in this world, nor in the DNS ether. Unregistered, unresolved, unworthy.

The Code of Email Conduct

Twenty precepts. No exceptions.

06
Precept of the day
List hygiene is sacred.

Remove invalid addresses and spamtraps to protect your reputation.

01Every complaint is a failure. 02If you do not authenticate, you do not deliver. 03The subject line is a promise. 04Respect frequency. 05Never hide behind freemail domains. 06List hygiene is sacred. 07Consent is binary. 08Segment your audience. 09Transparency beats trickery. 10Unsubscribe must be effortless. 11One complaint outweighs a thousand opens. 12Delivery ≠ Deliverability. 13Protect your domain. 14Respect blacklists. 15Content filters are not your enemy. 16Warm up with patience. 17Your infrastructure reveals you. 18Do not buy lists. 19Silence inactive users. 20Try to game the filters, and you will lose.
Read the full Code