Valimail Reviews & Product Details

We used Valimail Monitor (free tier) to take our firm’s domain from DMARC monitoring to enforcement. It was one of two reporting tools we ran side by side, and the one we relied on for the go/no-go decisions.

What worked well: the sender breakdown made it easy to see that our legitimate mail was passing, separate from the spoofing. The Unidentified Senders CSV export was the most useful thing in the product. It gave us every failing IP with no cap, and let us confirm nothing legitimate would be caught before we switched to quarantine. The Email Disposition view then showed receivers actually quarantining forged mail within a day of the change. The numbers matched our other reporting tool within about a point every week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Downsides: the per-message failure detail is paywalled, which we didn’t realize at signup. A few smaller senders we use showed up as unidentified rather than by name. Reports from some large receivers arrive a day or two late, so recent days can look empty until they fill in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that it is free for M365 customers

The simplicity of onboarding and initial setup of domains

The simplicity of most of the UI for reporting the current status of SPF/DMARC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Looking at detailed information about a domain and the emails being sent does not do a great job at getting to an action. Attempting to separate known bad traffic from potential internal misuse takes significant time. No leadership view that would help make a case, it all needs to be reformatted to show a non-technical user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Valimail makes email security much easier to manage. I especially like being able to see who is sending emails using our company domain and quickly identify authentication issues. It saves us time managing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and gives me more confidence that our domain is protected against spoofing. It works well for our email security needs, and the initial setup was easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some reports and settings could be easier to navigate, especially when I’m troubleshooting email authentication issues. I sometimes find it challenging to quickly identify the exact reason behind SPF, DKIM, or DMARC failures. More detailed information about why an email failed authentication and clear steps to fix the issue would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about Valimail is its ability to enhance the monitoring and analysis of DMARC reports, directly contributing to the security and protection of corporate emails against fraud, spoofing, and phishing attempts. The platform offers an intuitive interface, facilitates data visualization and interpretation, and provides detailed insights that help identify authentication issues, track domain performance, and make more assertive decisions. Additionally, its performance in processing information and the intelligence applied to reports optimize my workflow, reduce time spent on manual analyses, and make email security management more efficient. Thus, Valimail adds value both for its ease of use and functionalities, the visibility it provides, and the benefits it offers in risk prevention and continuous improvement of corporate environment security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, Valimail completely meets my demands regarding DMARC, it is the best tool on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about Valimail is how clear and intuitive the platform is. It makes DMARC data easy to understand, even without spending a lot of time digging through technical details. I also appreciate that it offers free DMARC analysis, which makes it a great option for companies that want to improve their email security without a large upfront investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I haven’t come across any significant drawbacks. The platform has been easy to use, clear, and meets our DMARC analysis needs well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an IT consultant managing email security for clients, what I appreciate most is how Valimail handles the technical heavy lifting. Features like Instant SPF completely solve the 10-DNS lookup limit without brittle manual flattening, and the automatic sender classification saves hours of sorting through raw XML reports, making it far easier to move clients safely to full DMARC enforcement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an IT consultant, my main critique is that certain reporting views can occasionally feel unintuitive when trying to break them down for non-technical stakeholders, requiring extra effort to translate the data into clear, client-friendly explanations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Valimail makes it easy to implement and monitor DMARC for free. We started reviewing our DMARC setup when Google strengthened its email authentication requirements for bulk senders, and Valimail gave us a straightforward way to manage DMARC reporting without having to build or operate our own solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There’s very little I dislike about Valimail for our use case. We primarily use it for DMARC monitoring and reporting, and it reliably does what we need without creating much additional operational overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Valimail's automated DMARC enforcement is exceptional. The Instant SPF technology eliminates the 10-lookup limit problem effortlessly, which has saved countless hours of manual DNS management. The pre-decoded service library with over 70 million IP addresses makes identifying all our sending services incredibly fast and accurate. One-click sender authorization dramatically reduces the complexity of managing DMARC across our media organization's multiple domains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing can be steep for smaller organizations, and the learning curve for new team members is moderate. Customer support response times vary — sometimes fast, sometimes slow during peak hours. Also wish the reporting dashboard had more customizable export options beyond standard formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how Valimail is very easy to use and pretty fast to set up. The graphs they provide for the reports are very informative and give GeoIP-based approximations for both legitimate and impostor mail, which is a nice suggestion of locations of people pretending to be us. The stacked bar graphs are also easy to read and being able to view graphs for specific outgoing mail servers is a very nice feature. Overall, it's much easier to parse compared to the raw data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find that the domain insights tab could present some next steps for Essentials, and I find it annoying when senders get lumped into Unidentified senders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Valimail provides automated tools that help with DMARC implementation and ongoing operation, including SPF/DKIM configuration and DNS server updates and management. This removes the need for manual, complex setup and makes day-to-day operation more efficient, even without specialized expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With so many competitors offering DMARC report outputs, dashboards, and monitoring solutions, choosing the right implementation takes careful consideration and a clear understanding of what you actually need, for example, dmarcian for easier setup and user friendliness, Proofpoint for holistic email infrastruture, MxToolbox for simple reputation check. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.