bird email tools audit
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bird email tools audit [flags]Description
Audit a domain's email-authentication setup. Resolves the domain's live DMARC, SPF, DKIM, BIMI, and MX records, validates each, checks how they work together (whether SPF or DKIM can produce a DMARC-aligned pass, whether DMARC is only monitoring, whether SPF exceeds the 10-lookup limit), and returns severity-tagged findings plus prioritized recommendations. It answers whether a domain's email is set up correctly, and why its mail might land in spam. DKIM needs a selector and selectors cannot be discovered from DNS: the selector parameter supplies one, and without it the DKIM check reports unknown. Resolution is live DNS only and no message is sent. Public: no authentication required.
Examples
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bird email tools audit <domain>Options
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| --response-schema | Print the fields this command returns, then exit |
| --selector | The DKIM selector to check (the label before ._domainkey). DKIM selectors cannot be discovered from DNS; omit it and the DKIM check reports the selector as unknown. |
Related
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| bird email tools analyze-dmarc-report | Analyze a DMARC aggregate report |
| bird email tools analyze-headers | Analyze raw email headers |
| bird email tools split-dns-record | Split a long DNS TXT value into 255-octet chunks |
| bird email tools validate-bimi | Validate a BIMI record |
| bird email tools validate-dmarc | Validate a DMARC record |