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Mail-Tester

Simple send-to-test-address spam score checks.

overview

Mail-Tester gives senders a generated address, analyzes the received message, and returns a spam score with authentication and content diagnostics. It is not a full monitoring suite, but it is one of the simplest ways to catch obvious DNS, SpamAssassin, and content issues before a campaign sends.

for teams choosing a transactional API

Judged purely as an API. What the request contract guarantees on retry, how complete the webhook event coverage is, whether suppressions are readable and writable programmatically, and how much the message log retains when something needs debugging in production.

Against high-frequency programmatic sends where a missed delivery is a product failure, Mail-Tester covers none of the capabilities this audience leans on (idempotency keys, webhook coverage, event stream, the suppressions API, batch sending, and SDK breadth), so it fits only where those needs are genuinely absent.

  • Idempotency keys: No
  • Webhooks: No
  • Event stream: No
  • Operating since: Not published
  • Suppressions API: No
  • Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
  • Batch sending: No
  • SDKs: None
  • Deliverability: Not a sender. Scores one message at a time and helps identify obvious authentication, blacklist, and SpamAssassin issues.
deliverability

Not a sender. Scores one message at a time and helps identify obvious authentication, blacklist, and SpamAssassin issues.

best for

Developers and marketers who need a quick preflight check for a specific message.

not great for

Teams that need continuous DMARC monitoring or inbox placement reporting.

pros
  • Very fast manual diagnostic
  • Free tests cover occasional checks
  • Paid API and iframe options exist for product integrations
  • Prepaid test packs do not expire
cons
  • No ongoing monitoring unless integrated manually
  • One test does not represent every mailbox provider
  • Interface is intentionally simple rather than polished

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP No
SDKs None
Webhooks No
Templates none
React Email No
Batch send No
Scheduled send No
Suppressions No
Multi-tenant No
Inbound parsing No
Event stream No
Idempotency keys No
Dedicated IP No

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