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MxToolBox

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What is MxToolBox?

MxToolbox in Austin supports global Internet operations by providing what they describe as free, fast and accurate network diagnostic and lookup tools. The vendor boasts millions of technology professionals using their tools to help diagnose and resolve a wide range of infrastructure issues.

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The expert in email deliverability and blacklists

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Jason Lane
Network Administrator in Information Technology at Precious Moments Inc (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MXToolBox is an invaluable tool for my position as Network Administrator. I use this service at least weekly to verify valid Domains when we are having problems with email delivery to a specific destination. I also use the service often to check current blacklists and see if a company or domain has been found there. I test email health with a service provided here to help me determine what is happening with failed deliveries.

Pros

  • Verify Email Flow.
  • View current blacklists.
  • Test DMARC.

Cons

  • More robust information on test results.
  • A bit clearer instruction for someone new to the interface.

Most Important Features

  • Email flow testing, during upgrades.
  • Determining blacklisted domains.
  • Analyzing headers in email.

Return on Investment

  • This provides a clear view to Email Health.
  • Easy to use most of the diagnostics.
  • Quick access to view current blacklists.

Other Software Used

Spiceworks Help Desk, vSphere, MiVoice Office Application Suite (Mitel Application Suite)

Insuring Customer critical time with Mxtoolbox

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Manishh AroraView profile
Bypass Network Services Limited in Engineering at Bypass Network Services Limited (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Dns records population
  • Email blacklisting details
  • SMTP diagnostics and real time analysis

Cons

  • Identify local dns resolver
  • Dnssec analysis
  • Notification to domain owner in case of missing information or missing records

Most Important Features

  • Dns analysis
  • Email blacklist

Return on Investment

  • Positive, dns analysis while working on real time issues
  • Positive, isolating Email issues which are Purely dependent on the network and help focusing on factors affecting blacklist instead hunting in the network for the issues

Alternatives Considered

SpamTitan Email Security

Other Software Used

LogicMonitor, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Zendesk Support Suite

Best tool for domain related issues

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Umair Ali Khan
Network Administrator in Information Technology at Pak Suzuki Motor Company (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Blacklisted domains
  • DNS resolutions
  • reverse ip lookups
  • mail server health check

Cons

  • pricing
  • dashboard

Most Important Features

  • domain blacklist check
  • email health check
  • DNS records
  • email delivery verification

Return on Investment

  • great features at no cost
  • quick identification of errors in email flow
  • block domains which are blacklisted

Other Software Used

Fortinet FortiGate, FortiClient, Nagios XI, Ubiquiti Wireless WAN, Windows Server

Diagnostic your email problems in one place

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Tomasz LipinskiView profile
Director of New Technologies and Development in Information Technology at Lemon Pro (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Diagnostics of EMAIL servers settings
  • Diagnostics of DNS settings

Cons

  • Adding the ability to send test messages from the site
  • It is possible to create a temporary inbox to check the receipt of e-mails
  • Dark mode

Most Important Features

  • Online tool - no installation required.
  • Simple intuitive interface
  • Monitoring

Return on Investment

  • It saves IT administrators' time
  • Basic IT knowledge is enough to use the tool

Other Software Used

Panopta, Kali Linux

Easy to use and discover the issue at hand.

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Kevin McCuskerView profile
Global Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at EVAPCO, Inc. (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MxToolBox is an invaluable tool for my department. My team uses this service at least weekly to verify valid Domains and to troubleshoot when we are having problems with email delivery. We also use the service often to check current blacklists and see if a company or domain has been found there. In fact, we just used it yesterday to determine one of our location's registration was expired.

Pros

  • Verify DNS records
  • Verify MX records
  • Blacklist lookups

Cons

  • Some "how to" for beginners would provide benefit to my team

Most Important Features

  • Ease of use
  • DNS record propagation
  • analyzing mail flow issues

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use to help find the current issues at hand
  • Doesn't take IT staff long to discover the issues using this tool

Alternatives Considered

Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard, Mailchimp and Emarsys