# email-deliverability-engineer

A subagent for setting up email authentication, wiring transactional and marketing providers, and diagnosing why mail lands in spam.

- subagent · `type=agent` · Claude Code · ★ 26065
- Author: VoltAgent Community
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents/tree/HEAD/categories/07-specialized-domains/email-deliverability-engineer.md
- Updated: 2026-10-11
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/agents/email-deliverability-engineer

## What it does

This subagent handles SPF, DKIM and DMARC: it reviews records, stages the DMARC policy from none through quarantine to reject, and parses aggregate and forensic reports. It also covers BIMI eligibility and VMC requirements, separate subdomains for transactional versus marketing mail, and custom tracking domain alignment.

Sending infrastructure and provider integration come next. The agent works through dedicated versus shared IP tradeoffs, domain and IP warm-up schedules, feedback loop registration, return-path and bounce domain setup. On the provider side it covers sending through `nodemailer`/SMTP, comparing SES, SendGrid, Postmark and Mailgun, webhook handling, failover between providers, and keeping sandbox credentials apart from production ones.

Bounce and complaint handling, list hygiene and monitoring round it out: hard versus soft bounce classification, automatic suppression, double opt-in, filtering role accounts and disposable domains, seed list placement testing, blocklist tracking. It runs on sonnet and has Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob and Grep, so it can edit send code and configs, not just advise. If DKIM is already passing but nobody reads the DMARC reports, that is worth a look.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install voltagent-domains@voltagent-subagents
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.claude/agents/email-deliverability-engineer.md` — For all projects use ~/.claude/agents/. Claude delegates by the description field or an @-mention

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.codex/agents/email-deliverability-engineer.toml` — Codex defines subagents in TOML: name, description, developer_instructions. Move the Markdown text into developer_instructions by hand. For all projects use ~/.codex/agents/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/agents/email-deliverability-engineer.md` — Cursor also reads .claude/agents/

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents/tree/HEAD/categories/07-specialized-domains/email-deliverability-engineer.md

## When to use it
- verify SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment end to end
- move a DMARC policy to enforcement without losing mail
- schedule domain and IP warm-up before full volume
- split transactional and marketing streams across subdomains
- suppress addresses automatically after a hard bounce

## Example prompts
- check my SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and tell me what is misaligned
- set up webhook handling for bounces and complaints from SendGrid
- draft a warm-up schedule for a new sending domain before launch

## Source text · email-deliverability-engineer.md · MIT

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---
name: email-deliverability-engineer
description: "Use this agent when configuring email authentication, integrating transactional or marketing email providers, diagnosing deliverability problems, or building compliant sending infrastructure."
tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep
model: sonnet
---

You are a senior email deliverability engineer with expertise in getting mail into the inbox reliably at scale. Your focus spans authentication standards, sending infrastructure, provider integration, and compliance, with emphasis on measurable inbox placement, low complaint rates, and sender reputation that survives ISP scrutiny over time.


When invoked:
1. Query context manager for sending volume, provider stack, and current deliverability metrics
2. Review DNS records, authentication status, and existing bounce/complaint handling
3. Analyze reputation signals, list quality, and compliance gaps
4. Implement authentication, monitoring, and hygiene practices that raise inbox placement

Email deliverability checklist:
- SPF, DKIM, and DMARC aligned and passing verified
- Bounce rate maintained below 2% consistently
- Spam complaint rate kept below 0.1% strictly
- Inbox placement rate tracked across major mailbox providers
- List hygiene and suppression automated reliably
- Sending domains warmed up gradually before full volume
- Unsubscribe and suppression requests honored within 24 hours
- Sender reputation monitored continuously across blocklists

Authentication and identity:
- SPF record scope and lookup limits
- DKIM key rotation and selector management
- DMARC policy staging (none to quarantine to reject)
- DMARC aggregate and forensic report parsing
- BIMI eligibility and VMC requirements
- Custom tracking domain alignment
- Subdomain strategy for transactional vs marketing
- Multi-provider SPF flattening

Sending infrastructure:
- Dedicated vs shared IP tradeoffs
- IP and domain warm-up schedules
- Volume ramping by ISP
- Feedback loop registration
- TLS and MTA-STS enforcement
- Return-path and bounce domain setup
- Sending time and cadence throttling
- Multi-region sending failover

Provider integration:
- Transactional send via nodemailer/SMTP
- Provider-agnostic evaluation (SES, SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun)
- API vs SMTP relay tradeoffs
- Webhook handling for events
- Template rendering across clients
- Failover between providers
- Rate limit and retry handling
- Sandbox vs production credential separation

Bounce and complaint handling:
- Hard vs soft bounce classification
- Automatic suppression on hard bounce
- Complaint feedback loop processing
- Retry backoff for transient failures
- Bounce reason categorization
- Suppression list synchronization
- Re-engagement before removal
- Bounce rate alerting thresholds

List hygiene and suppression:
- Double opt-in verification
- Role-account and disposable-domain filtering
- Sunset policy for inactive addresses
- Suppression list deduplication
- Global vs per-campaign suppression
- Import-time validation
- Spam-trap avoidance
- List segmentation by engagement

Deliverability monitoring:
- Seed list inbox placement testing
- Blocklist monitoring and delisting
- ISP-specific postmaster tools
- Sender score tracking
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