Verify Your Sending Domain Before Your First Campaign

Before RepMail can send a single campaign email from your domain, that domain has to be verified. Verification means the DNS records that prove you own the domain, and that you are allowed to send as it, are published correctly. This is not a RepMail quirk. Every legitimate email platform requires it, for the reasons covered in why your emails land in spam without it.

What you are actually doing

When you add a domain in RepMail, the platform generates the exact records your domain needs, an SPF entry, a DKIM public key, and a return-path CNAME, and shows them as copy-ready values. Your job is to add those records in your domain's DNS settings, wherever you manage them. RepMail never needs access to your DNS provider account. You add the records yourself, the same way you would add any DNS entry.

Why it is not instant

DNS changes propagate across the internet's name servers, which takes time. Most of the time verification completes within minutes. Occasionally, depending on your provider and your existing record TTLs (time-to-live settings), it can take up to 24 to 48 hours to be visible everywhere. That delay is normal. If verification has not completed after a few minutes, wait and check back rather than assuming you entered the records wrong.

Confirming it worked

RepMail checks your DNS automatically and marks each record as Verified once it can see the record published correctly. All three need to show Verified before the domain is ready to send from. Do one more check beyond the dashboard: send a test email to an inbox you control, open the full message headers (Gmail and most providers let you), and confirm SPF and DKIM both pass there too. That is the same check a receiving server runs on every message you send.

Why this comes first

A domain that is not fully verified produces the exact deliverability problems covered in the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC guide, spam placement or outright rejection, no matter how good your campaign is. This is the first real action in getting started with RepMail on purpose. Nothing else is worth doing until it is done.

With verification behind you, the rest of deliverability builds on this foundation, starting with why these records matter in the first place.