A new company had just set up Google Workspace on a brand-new domain and needed its email to reach the inbox, not spam, from day one.
What I did: audited the existing MX, SPF and 2048-bit DKIM records, added a DMARC policy (quarantine), and set up Google Postmaster Tools for ongoing monitoring. All mail records were confirmed as DNS-only at Cloudflare. I worked from a separate admin account, so the client kept sole control of the super admin login and recovery options.
Testing: a live message scored 10/10 on mail-tester.com (the target was 9/10), all four records passed every MXToolbox check, and a round-trip test was delivered and answered by Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo/AT&T and Microsoft 365 within four minutes.
Result: a fully authenticated domain, plus a six-week warm-up plan and sending guidelines so its reputation builds safely as volume grows.
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Took a brand-new domain to a 10/10 mail-tester score: added DMARC and Postmaster Tools, and confirmed delivery to Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and M365.
