Enable DKIM for Microsoft 365 Email to Prevent Spoofing and Improve Deliverability

Windows Defender Email authentication settings showing DKIM settings

Enabling DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for an email account is one of the ways to combat email spoofing, and has other security benefits. Spoofing is when someone sends an email that looks like it came from you, but it didn’t. Unfortunately, there is a lot of outdated and inaccurate information online about how to set … Read more

How to Read Other Users’ Email in Microsoft 365 (as an Admin)

Permissions in Outlook 365

There may be legitimate cases where an admin might need to access another Microsoft 365 user’s email. For example, when an employee has left the company. In this article, I’ll explain how to do that Step One: Getting Permissions The first part of this requires granting yourself permission to access the user’s email account. As … Read more

Use Gmail or Microsoft 365 to Reliably Send Email from Your WordPress Site

Laptop and mobile phone

2025 UPDATE I no longer recommend using a Google or Microsoft email account for sending transactional email from a website. The main reason is that I’ve seen these accounts get disconnected for various reasons (i.e., the client changed the password) or sometimes for no apparent reason at all, resulting in no email from the site … Read more