Pilot Grove Savings Bank: email security grade D

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Pilot Grove Savings Bank, Pilot Grove, Iowa, is the 864th largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets ($1.2bn). On 4 November 2026 the public email records of pilotgrovesavingsbank.com graded D: MX pass, SPF pass, DMARC no record, mail handled by Microsoft 365.

Grade D. One required record missing or broken. Read by DNS on 4 November 2026; the records are shown as published.

What was found on pilotgrovesavingsbank.com

Check	Result	What was published
MX	Pass	`0 pilotgrovesavingsbank-com.mail.protection.outlook.com`. Mail handled by Microsoft 365
SPF	Pass	`v=spf1 ip4:205.139.111.42 ip4:207.211.30.42 ip4:64.197.198.123 ip4:69.18.14.233 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spfref.jackhenry.com include:mailgun.org -all`. DNS lookups: 7 of 10 allowed; ends -all
DMARC	Fail	No DMARC record at _dmarc.pilotgrovesavingsbank.com
DKIM	Pass, not graded	Key found on selector k1 (of 10 common selectors tried)

Where Pilot Grove Savings Bank ranks

Pilot Grove Savings Bank is the 864th largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets, at $1.2bn as reported to the FDIC (certificate 9100; Pilot Grove, Iowa). Among the 999 graded banks, Pilot Grove Savings Bank ranks 980th by grade (ties broken by assets, larger first). In its asset band, $1bn to $10bn, it ranks 828th of 846; among the 27 graded banks in Iowa, 25th. 66% of its band and 51.9% of its state graded A.

What this means for the bank

The checker's own notes on each record:

MX, pass: 1 MX record. Replies have somewhere to land. Mail is handled by Microsoft 365.
SPF, pass: One SPF record, ending in -all (fail): mail from a server that is not on the list should be rejected.
SPF, info: DNS lookups: about 7 of the 10 allowed. This count is an estimate.
DMARC, fail: No DMARC record at _dmarc.pilotgrovesavingsbank.com. Receivers get no instruction for mail that fails SPF and DKIM, and you get no reports.
DKIM, pass: DKIM key found at k1._domainkey.pilotgrovesavingsbank.com, about 1024-bit RSA.

What this means if you sell to Pilot Grove Savings Bank

Pilot Grove Savings Bank receives mail through Microsoft 365, whose Exchange Online Protection checks every inbound message's SPF, DKIM and DMARC and scores the sender's reputation. A clean, warmed sending domain is the minimum; a failed check lands in junk or is dropped. Before you send, run your own domain through the email setup checker and publish a policy with the DMARC record generator. For how a bank buys, see the selling to banks playbook.

Check it live

The records above are from 4 November 2026. Run the same check on pilotgrovesavingsbank.com now for today's result. The FDIC's record of the bank is at BankFind, certificate 9100.

This page is one of 1,000 in the Bank Email Readiness Index Q4 2026, published 4 November 2026 and re-read every quarter; the next edition is due 2 February 2027. If you work at Pilot Grove Savings Bank and the records have changed, email moe@roimaxi.com and we will re-check and update this page.

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