Mailprotector

06/18/2026

Should email services without DKIM be avoided entirely?

Not necessarily. Some systems simply don’t support DKIM. Multifunction printers and older applications are common examples. That doesn’t automatically make them unsafe or unusable.

In those cases, SPF alignment may be enough to satisfy DMARC. Another option is routing those messages through a relay that can apply DKIM on their behalf.

DKIM is a best practice, but the lack of DKIM alone doesn’t mean a service has to be ripped out.

This comes up more often than you’d expect. We break it down here: https://hubs.la/Q04lD68K0

06/17/2026

School’s almost out, but how are your grades?

Get your email report card, minus the judgment.
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06/12/2026

Remember when email security took shape in the early 2000s?

The model was simple. Spot a threat, block it, wait for the next one. Spam filters gave way to antivirus, then link scanning, and every new attack got its own patch.

Twenty-five years later, we're still playing an endless game of whack-a-mole. Attackers move first, the industry reacts, leaving us all a step behind.

What if the target stopped moving?

Traditional email security keeps chasing the next threat. Shield flips that, starting from a fixed target: what users actually want in their inbox. Read now.

06/12/2026

We're back at SecureIT Summit in Tampa this June, and yes, there's a yacht.

A yacht party on Tampa Bay to close out the week might be over the top, but that's sort of the point.

CyberFOX's SecureIT Summit is a small room of MSP owners and leaders who take the work seriously and the company even more seriously. When you're that focused, sometimes you need a break from the norm.

Two and a half days of keynotes and real peer conversations. The kind of room where you actually solve something instead of collecting brochures.

Ty Smith, Jason Samples, and Kate Schlarf from the Mailprotector team are making the trip. Catch them between sessions, or on the boat.

We have a few tickets to give away and we're picky about who gets them. If you're an MSP leader eyeing SecureIT Summit, DM us and we'll set up a quick call.

06/11/2026

Tech for 11,000 kids. All because of a conference built entirely around rejection.

RejectionCon 2026 set out to raise $75,000 for the Rural Technology Fund. The community raised over $80,000!

WOW.

Our CTO Ben Hathaway argued that phishing sims are mostly theater. Eyebrows were raised, and that session turned into one of the liveliest debates of the event.

Then our VP of Marketing, Kate Schlarf. challenged the audience to donate before her marketing session even began, and it helped raise almost $3,000.

** Full recap in the comments **

06/10/2026

Encrypting an email shouldn't take a manual.

"You sell it, you turn it on, and it just works." That's Mike Wilson at Databranch, on Bracket.

All it takes is two [brackets] to encrypt. That's the only thing anyone needs to learn. Write your message from your go-to email client, on any device. Hit send, and it's encrypted.

Don't worry, your recipient won't need an account, a password, or an app. A secure link lands in their inbox, they click once, and they're reading.

Now's the time to try it! Get 3 months free on any new domain. Offer ends in June, so don't wait.

Claim it in the comments.

06/08/2026

"When a security tool doesn't do the right job, users just go the other direction."

Ben Hathaway said it at RejectionCon, and we lived through this in 2017 with email encryption. To be honest, most of the MSPs we talk with today still live through it.

When a tool gets in the way, people route around it. That's not a user problem. That's a product problem.

We built Bracket so that wouldn't happen. No passwords, no plugins. Type [bracket] in the subject line and it encrypts.

Add a new Bracket domain by June 30, 2026, and it's free for three invoice periods. A low-risk way to see what painless email encryption feels like. https://hubs.la/Q04kmxH00