https://blog.laneful.com/archive Deep dives into email infrastructure, deliverability, and the future of communication technology https://blog.laneful.com/state-of-email-authentication-august-2026 https://blog.laneful.com/state-of-email-authentication-august-2026 DANE posted its fastest month yet, and 85% of it was one German host flipping a switch. Plus a new measurement: we asked 290,000 mail servers whether they actually refuse unencrypted mail. Two in a thousand do. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://blog.laneful.com/state-of-email-authentication-july-2026 https://blog.laneful.com/state-of-email-authentication-july-2026 Month two, and the first set of deltas. Every protocol grew except DANE — and the entire decline traces to one Swiss host deleting the TLSA records for its whole customer fleet. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://blog.laneful.com/state-of-email-authentication-june-2026 https://blog.laneful.com/state-of-email-authentication-june-2026 Our first monthly reading of DMARC, BIMI, DANE and MTA-STS across the top million domains. DMARC sits at 64% of mail-eligible domains; the other three are all under 5% — and no single provider ships all four. Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT