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September 8, 2026 · Attila Domokos · 2 min read
Measurable Impact
Email security is easier to value when you can see the improvement. RefineEmail’s new Sending Sources view shows how a company’s email infrastructure becomes properly authenticated over time, turning technical fixes into measurable progress. Instead of simply saying, “We fixed it,” we can now show the proof.
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August 18, 2026 · Attila Domokos · 2 min read
When Email Authentication Backfires
I check my Spam folder every so often to make sure Gmail hasn’t buried something important. This time it had: an email from my daughter’s school district bookstore with the access codes for this term’s digital textbooks. If I hadn’t looked, she could have shown up to class with no way to open her books. Here’s the interesting part: nothing was broken. The district has told every email provider in the world: if a message claims to be from us and can’t prove it, don’t put it in the inbox; send it to spam instead. (In technical terms, their DMARC policy is set to quarantine, and Gmail followed that instruction exactly.) The problem was that the bookstore was using a mailing service that had never been properly authorized to send on the district’s behalf. Getting to quarantine is the hard part, and this district did it. Most organizations never get that far. But once enforcement is turned on, every new mailing tool someone signs up for can start landing in spam unless it’s properly authenticated. And often nobody notices until the messages matter and people start asking why they never arrived. I wrote up what happened and what organizations should do about it; the link is in the first comment.
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August 4, 2026 · Attila Domokos · 2 min read
Email Spoofing Attempts Are Surging
Email spoofing attempts are increasing across schools and other industries. See how enforcing DMARC helped one middle school keep unauthorized emails out of recipients’ inboxes, and why protecting your domain matters.
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April 25, 2026 · Attila Domokos · 2 min read
How RefineEmail Got Started
Setting up a custom email domain shouldn’t be this hard. That frustration is what led to RefineEmail.
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