
Introducing Inbox Monitors (beta)
Inbox Monitors are live in beta: recurring delivery checks that alert you when an inbox stops receiving mail. Free account, no password required.
Delivery knowledge base

Inbox Monitors are live in beta: recurring delivery checks that alert you when an inbox stops receiving mail. Free account, no password required.

An ordered procedure for finding a missing email — baseline test, folder search, rules, quota, bounces, forwarding, MX records, and message tracing.

Email testing tools handle your address, your IP, and delivery callbacks. What they must keep, what they choose to keep, and how to tell before you use one.

Where filtered mail actually goes in Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo, how spam decisions are made, and which fixes genuinely change the outcome.

How DNS, MX records, SMTP, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC combine to route email — including MX priority, TTL caching, and the misconfigurations that break delivery.

The real reasons email stops arriving — filtering, rules, quotas, forwarding, MX errors, authentication failures — and how to tell which one you have.

What an inbox test can and cannot prove, how to build one that gives usable evidence, and how to read SMTP acceptance, rejection, and deferral codes.

Test whether your catch-all or wildcard email address really receives mail — including the silent failure where mail is accepted and then quietly discarded.