Email authentication error glossary
Paste the exact error your validator reported and find out what it means, what causes it, and how to fix it. Covering BIMI, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and more.
BIMI
Brand Indicators36 errorsErrors raised when a BIMI record, logo file or Verified Mark Certificate fails validation.
Record & policy
9Logo & SVG
4Certificate & VMC
14- Authority URL Scheme is Not HTTPS
- Certificate Can't Be Accessed Automatically
- Certificate Not Valid for the Domain
- Failed to Fetch Authority Certificate
- No VMC in Record
- Non-HTTPS URL Encountered While Fetching the VMC Certificate
- VMC Certificate Chain Does Not Terminate at a Trusted BIMI Root CA
- VMC Certificate Chain Ordering Does Not Match Expected Issuance Order
- VMC Certificate Chain Signature Verification Failed
- VMC Leaf Certificate Selection is Ambiguous
- VMC PEM Bundle Contains Only the Leaf Certificate
- VMC PEM Bundle Omits the Root CA Certificate
- VMC PEM Starts with UTF-8 BOM
- VMC Validation Errors




