# Domain Email Security Auditor (`contributive_naiad_wgt/domain-email-security-auditor`) Actor

Audit public MX, SPF, DMARC, CAA, and nameserver records for spoofing risk and email-authentication posture without an API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/contributive\_naiad\_wgt/domain-email-security-auditor.md
- **Developed by:** [Through My Own](https://apify.com/contributive_naiad_wgt) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Marketing, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 domain audits

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Domain Email Security Auditor

Audit public DNS records for email-delivery and anti-spoofing posture: MX, SPF, DMARC, CAA, and nameservers. The Actor produces a deterministic score, spoofing-risk level, parsed evidence, and prioritized fixes without an API key, browser, proxy, SMTP probe, or uploaded data.

### Use cases

- Find domains vulnerable to straightforward email spoofing.
- Audit client or company domain portfolios before outreach campaigns.
- Check staged SPF and DMARC rollouts on a schedule.
- Feed compact domain-security evidence to automation and AI agents.

### Input

Provide 1–100 domains, website URLs, or email addresses. Only the domain portion is used.

```json
{ "domains": ["example.com", "https://apify.com", "hello@github.com"] }
```

### Output

One dataset row per resolving domain, including posture score, spoofing risk, MX hosts, SPF validity and approximate DNS-lookup terms, DMARC policy/percentage/reporting, CAA and nameserver counts, raw public policy records, and recommendations. Non-resolving domains and transient DNS failures are uncharged errors.

### Pricing

Pay per event: a small Actor-start event plus `$0.005` per resolving domain audited. Platform usage is included.

### Important limits

This is a DNS configuration audit, not a deliverability guarantee or legal/compliance certification. Generic DKIM validation is impossible without knowing each sender's selector, so the Actor does not guess DKIM status. It does not connect to mail servers or send email. SPF lookup counting is a useful static approximation; nested includes require a full recursive evaluator.

### Changelog

- `0.1.0`: Initial production release.

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

Domains, website URLs, or email addresses, one per line.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum time allowed for each DNS record lookup.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of domains processed at once.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "example.com"
  ],
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 8,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

## `errors` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("contributive_naiad_wgt/domain-email-security-auditor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("contributive_naiad_wgt/domain-email-security-auditor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call contributive_naiad_wgt/domain-email-security-auditor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,contributive_naiad_wgt/domain-email-security-auditor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YrRWIooz7WwFAplnQ/builds/6UpMGNAk5mRzdgYwu/openapi.json