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DeliverabilityCold email
We find why your cold email lands in spam, fix the cause and protect your domain.
Example from our free diagnosis template. Before the repair: SPF passes only for the vendor's domain, DKIM has no signature, DMARC fails and the email from you@yourcompany.com lands in spam. After the repair: SPF, DKIM and DMARC pass, the domain is not on public blocklists, volume starts at 5 a day per mailbox and the email lands in the inbox.
Most teams first see a deliverability problem as a symptom in their campaign numbers. Pick yours: what it usually means, where we look first and the evidence that settles it.
Low open rates aren't necessarily an accurate indicator of deliverability or spam classification issues.
Our ruleOpens never drive a decision
421 4.7.28 Gmail has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited email originating from your DKIM domain yourcompany.com. To protect our users from spam, email sent from your domain has been temporarily rate limited.
Our ruleVolume holds and the queue slows
550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.
Our ruleThe list pauses at 2%
550 5.7.515 Access denied, sending domain yourcompany.com does not meet the required authentication level.
Our ruleThat sender stops until a new test passes
550 5.7.1 This message is likely suspicious due to the very low reputation of the sending domain. To best protect our users from spam, the message has been blocked.
Our rulePause, fix the cause, delist officially
spf=passdkim=passdmarc=pass250 2.0.0 OK
Our ruleReview the targeting after 100 to 200 contacts
Want a first read on your own setup? Run the free domain check.
An email deliverability consultant diagnoses why messages land in spam or get rejected, then fixes the cause across authentication, sending infrastructure, list quality, volume and monitoring. Growth Cab does this for B2B outbound teams on Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Every finding starts from evidence in message headers, bounce codes and provider data, and the setup stays with your team.
A written rule for every signal that turns red
A slow ramp for every mailbox, raised only on healthy signals
Verified addresses, bounces and opt-outs suppressed at once
Separate sending domains that still carry your brand
SPF, DKIM and DMARC on the domain in your From line
The same check we run on day one: MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, domain age, website and the Spamhaus blocklist. One score out of 100, free, public DNS only.
Then we fix it, test it on the real sending path and let volume back in one week at a time.
Headers, bounce codes, Postmaster data and blocklists. No changes yet.
Each finding with its evidence, an owner and the test that proves it fixed.
DNS, DMARC and mailbox settings. Cold email moves off your main domain.
Tests on the real sending path, then seed tests on Gmail and Microsoft 365.
Volume rises week by week while the signals stay green.
Domains get damaged when volume keeps going through warning signs. Our protocol says what pauses a campaign, what must be green first and which advice we dropped.
Our live DNS records, the reports that showed who was sending email as us, and the outbound we run for clients.
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A worked example of a common failure: SPF passes and DMARC still fails. Download the commented diagnosis and the incident template we use.
Authentication-Results: mx.example.net;spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=
Illustrative example with synthetic header facts. Diagnose your own environment before changing DNS or sending settings. Official references: Google's email sender guidelines, Yahoo's sender best practices, Outlook.com's requirements for high-volume senders and Microsoft's email authentication documentation.
Short answers to the questions B2B teams ask before they hire a deliverability consultant. The first call covers the rest.
Book a callAn email deliverability consultant finds out why email lands in spam or gets rejected, then fixes the cause. The work covers authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC), sending domains and mailboxes, list quality, volume and pacing, and monitoring. Growth Cab does it for B2B outbound teams on Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, starting from the evidence in message headers, bounce codes and provider data.
Falling open or reply rates alone cannot tell you. Check delivery errors, authentication results, domain reputation and spam complaints alongside controlled inbox tests. Google says it does not track open rates, and that low open rates aren't necessarily an accurate indicator of deliverability problems (source: Google, email sender guidelines). When all of those look healthy, review the list and the offer next.
It depends on what burned it. We find the cause first, because the same cause will damage any new domain too. Then we fix it, request delisting through the official channel where there is a listing, and restart at low volume. If outreach ran from your main domain, we move it to a sending domain clearly linked to your company, so the main domain carries far less of that risk.
Both. They filter in different ways, so we test on each one, read each mailbox provider's responses separately and tune the setup for both.
No. No infrastructure can guarantee inbox placement, and a vendor who promises it is usually selling volume. Every finding we report comes with its evidence: what we checked, what we fixed and the tests that show it worked.
After the repairs, plan on about three weeks of ramp: 5 messages per mailbox per working day in week one, up to 10 in week two and up to 15 in week three. Your steady daily volume is then the number of mailboxes times 15. Each step waits for green signals, so the calendar alone never raises volume. The audit comes first, and its length depends on how many domains and mailboxes you run.
We keep outreach off the domain your company runs on, so your sales, support and billing email depend less on how a campaign performs. Sending domains should still be clearly linked to your company, with real people behind every mailbox, because lookalike domains that hide who is writing create a risk of their own.
Not necessarily. Warmup tools create artificial engagement between mailboxes, and their settings come from the vendors that sell them. We treat warmup as optional and judge a mailbox by its real traffic: bounces, complaints and replies.
These rules cover mail sent to personal inboxes. Every sender to personal Gmail accounts needs SPF or DKIM and a spam rate below 0.3%. Bulk senders, around 5,000 messages a day to personal Gmail accounts, also need SPF, DKIM, a DMARC record and a From domain aligned with SPF or DKIM, plus one-click unsubscribe on marketing mail. Google recommends keeping spam rates under 0.1%. Yahoo has similar rules and asks senders to honor unsubscribes within two days, and Outlook.com requires SPF, DKIM and DMARC from senders above 5,000 messages a day. Business mailboxes on Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 filter with their own systems and admin settings, so we test them separately. Sources: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sender guidelines.
B2B teams sending cold email from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365: when replies or meetings fell and nobody can say why, before adding mailboxes, domains or volume, or when the main domain carries sales, support and invoices and outreach needs to stay away from it. It does not fit newsletters to opted-in lists, anyone who wants a guaranteed inbox rate, or hundreds of throwaway domains to outrun the filters. We work with B2B tech companies past product-market fit, selling contracts of $50,000 or more.
Book a callFit check
The first call is a fit check with the founders. Bring your sending setup and your numbers: we tell you what we would check first, and say so when it is not a fit.
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