Reading your MailMedic health score

What the number means, how it is weighted, and which findings to fix first.

✉️ MailMedic3 min readUpdated 2026-08-22

The score is a summary, not a verdict. It exists so you can see progress between scans, and so a shop owner who does not read DNS records still knows whether things are getting better.

How it is weighted

What to fix first

Work top down through the failing checks. They are already ordered by impact, and each one names the exact record to add. A shop going from no SPF to a correct SPF record usually sees the largest single improvement, because it moves from unverifiable to verifiable.

A score of 100 is not the goal — a passing authentication chain is. Some perfectly healthy setups sit in the high eighties because of a deliberate choice, such as staying at p=quarantine rather than p=reject.
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