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Churches and ministries send a high volume of announcement emails, prayer requests, donation receipts, and event reminders — often to large, aging lists that haven't been cleaned in years. This creates a perfect storm for deliverability problems. Gmail and Outlook's spam filters don't know your congregation — they only see patterns, and an unconfigured church domain with a stale list looks a lot like a bulk spammer.
Many churches migrated to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) years ago and never properly set up SPF, DKIM, or DMARC records. Others switched email platforms — from Mailchimp to Planning Center to Constant Contact — and left behind orphaned authentication records that now actively conflict with each other, causing legitimate emails to fail authentication checks silently.
The stakes are real: a missed giving reminder, a volunteer schedule that lands in junk, or a service cancellation notice nobody sees. These aren't just technical annoyances — they erode trust with your congregation and cost your ministry time and money.
The audit covers every layer of your church's email sending infrastructure, not just a surface-level DNS lookup. Starting with your SPF record, we verify that every service authorized to send on your behalf — Google Workspace, Planning Center, Mailchimp, etc. — is properly listed and that you haven't exceeded the 10-lookup limit that silently breaks SPF for many organizations.
Next, we check your DKIM signatures. DKIM is a cryptographic key that proves an email genuinely came from your domain. If you've switched email platforms or had a Google Workspace admin turn over, your DKIM keys may be unpublished, expired, or pointing to the wrong selector entirely. We also review your DMARC policy, which tells inbox providers what to do when authentication fails — without it, even good emails from your domain can be spoofed by bad actors.
Finally, we run your domain against major blacklists (Spamhaus, Barracuda, MX Toolbox, and others), analyze your sending reputation signals, and compile everything into a plain-English report with prioritized next steps — not a wall of technical jargon.
After running audits for dozens of churches and nonprofits, a few problems show up again and again. The most common is a broken or missing SPF record — especially for churches that added Planning Center, Breeze, or a third-party newsletter tool after originally setting up Google Workspace. Each new sender needs to be added to your SPF record, and most IT volunteers or office managers don't know that step exists.
The second most common issue is a domain that has never had DMARC configured. Without DMARC, your church domain can be spoofed — meaning a phishing email that appears to come from pastor@yourchurch.org can reach your congregation's inboxes with no warning. We see this regularly, and it's a serious security risk beyond just deliverability.
We also frequently find churches on email blacklists they don't know about — usually from a past bulk send to an old, unverified list. Being on even one major blacklist can cause your emails to be silently dropped by a significant portion of recipients.
How long does the audit take? Once you send your church's domain name, the audit report is typically delivered within 24–48 hours. There's no form to fill out, no account to create — just reply with your domain and we handle the rest.
Do you need access to our Google Workspace admin account? No. The audit is performed entirely using publicly available DNS records and reputation databases. We never need a password, admin access, or any login credentials. Your security is not at risk.
What happens after the audit? You'll receive a plain-English report explaining exactly what's configured correctly, what needs fixing, and what's highest priority. If you'd like help implementing the fixes, SwitchMyEmail offers affordable Google Workspace management services for churches — but there's no obligation. Many churches take the report to their own IT volunteer and handle it themselves, and that's completely fine.