The Honesdale National Bank: email security grade F

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The Honesdale National Bank, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, is the 902nd largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets ($1.2bn). On 4 November 2026 the public email records of hnbbank.bank graded F: MX fail, SPF fail, DMARC p=reject, no MX records.

Grade F. Two or more essentials missing or broken. Read by DNS on 4 November 2026; the records are shown as published.

What was found on hnbbank.bank

Check	Result	What was published
MX	Fail	No MX records
SPF	Fail	No SPF record
DMARC	Pass	`v=DMARC1; p=reject; fo=1; rua=mailto:dmarc_rua@encirca.com; ruf=mailto:dmarc_ruf@encirca.com`. Policy p=reject; reports collected (rua= set)
DKIM	Reported, not graded	No key on any of 10 common selectors. This proves nothing: the bank's real selectors may be any name

Where The Honesdale National Bank ranks

The Honesdale National Bank is the 902nd largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets, at $1.2bn as reported to the FDIC (certificate 7526; Honesdale, Pennsylvania). Among the 999 graded banks, The Honesdale National Bank ranks 997th by grade (ties broken by assets, larger first). In its asset band, $1bn to $10bn, it ranks 844th of 846; among the 43 graded banks in Pennsylvania, 43rd. 66% of its band and 60.5% of its state graded A.

What this means for the bank

The checker's own notes on each record:

MX, fail: No MX records, so hnbbank.bank cannot receive mail. Every reply to a cold email sent from it bounces.
SPF, fail: No SPF record on hnbbank.bank. Receivers have no list of the servers allowed to send as you, so they cannot tell your mail from a forgery.
DMARC, pass: Policy p=reject: receivers are asked to refuse mail that fails.
DMARC, info: Reports go to dmarc_rua@encirca.com.
DKIM, info: No DKIM key at the 10 common selectors tried. That does not mean DKIM is missing. Your email provider picks the selector name, and DNS has no way to list them.

What this means if you sell to The Honesdale National Bank

hnbbank.bank publishes no MX records, so it does not receive mail. The Honesdale National Bank's staff mail must run on another domain, which this check did not read. 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 hnbbank.bank now for today's result. The FDIC's record of the bank is at BankFind, certificate 7526.

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 The Honesdale National Bank and the records have changed, email moe@roimaxi.com and we will re-check and update this page.

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