Email Service Configuration

Allowing your Domain

Reasons to Allow

1. Remove the "Sent via Gainsightapp.com" tag.
2. Increase the deliverability of the emails to Inbox instead of the Spam folder.
3. If you have DMARC setting on, you will have to allow to send emails using Gainsight Email Infrastructure.
4. If you have "-all" option at the end of your SPF setting, allowing is mandatory for using Gainsight email infrastructure.

What is Allowing?

Allowing is a functionality that shows ISPs for which SendGrid (Gainsight's ESP) has your permission to send emails on your behalf. This permission is given by the act of pointing very specific DNS entries from your domain registrar to SendGrid. Once these DNS entries are entered and propagated, recipient email servers and services will read the headers on the emails you send and check the DNS records to verify if the email is initiated from a trusted source. This drastically increases your ability to deliver email and allows you to begin building a sender reputation for your domain and for your IP addresses.

Types of Allowing

• Domain Allow: This type allows recipient email servers and services to verify the identity of the email sender back to the domain that the sender controls. This provides a layer of email authentication that helps in email deliverability. With only the domain allow, you are still subject to the reputation of your IP address.
• Email Links Allow: When you put a link or an image into an email and have the click or the open tracking turned on, then the click tracking links and the images will point to your domain. This tells the recipient email server that you are not trying to hide anything behind the links, and that you control the content of your emails. A few bad actors will use 3rd party link shortening services to populate the domains they list in their email content, and they do not include their own domain in those links. This practice is a red flag to spam filters.