Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC)

We suggest you set up a Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) record to monitor your domains. DMARC helps monitor for both fraudulent email that may hurt your brand, as well as legitimate traffic for Sender Policy F...

There are many tags you can include in your Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) record. For help creating a DMARC record, use Kitterman's DMARC Record Assistant.Required tags v: This is the version tag that ident...

There are three different types of Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) policies that you can include in your DMARC record. These policies tell mailbox providers how to handle your email if it fails authentication....

Domain alignment is important for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) to work properly. Domains out of alignment may cause the DMARC check to fail. DKIM alignment is when your email's parent domain of the DKIM sign...

Domain alignment is important for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) to work properly. Domains out of alignment may cause the DMARC check to fail. With Sender Policy Framework (SPF) alignment, there is a match bet...

To pass DMARC, your email must pass either or both of the following: SPF authentication and SPF alignment DKIM authentication and DKIM alignment A message will fail DMARC if it fails both SPF and SPF alignment and DKIM and DKIM alignment.

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is a technical specification designed to reduce the potential for email-based abuse by solving operational, deployment and reporting issues related to email authentication prot...

Yes, you can rely solely on Sender Policy Framework (SPF) while implementing Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC). However, it is important to ensure you pass SPF and are aligning correctly. If SPF fails and you ...

We believe this partially because existing solutions are not easy to use or understand. It is our focus to drive more DMARC adoption by making it easier to understand and making the data more actionable. Additionally, the focus has been largely c...

The first step in leveraging DMARC involves using “observation” mode – in other words, simply viewing the data available through DMARC. By doing this, you will be able to see exactly what email would be rejected if you implemented a DMARC reject p...

What is DMARC? DMARC, also known as Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance, is a DNS-based email security policy that standardizes the operation and interpretation of the well-known and widely-deployed email authentication...

Either of the DMARC lookup tools below are helpful if you are unsure if you currently have a DMARC record, or if you want to validate that it is up to date with your most current policy. The tools can be found here: MXtoolbox Proofpoint How to u...

Yes, the default behavior for a domain's Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) record is inherited by any of its sub-domains that do not have their own explicit DMARC record. An explicit DMARC record for a sub-dom...

There are two different tactics to take if you do not want the same policy level on a parent domain's sub-domains:  Create an explicit Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) record for any sub-domain and specify t...

Yes, you can have multiple reporting addresses in your DMARC record. According to the DMARC specification, there is no limit to reporting addresses. However, Validity recommends you only include two reporting addresses in your DMARC record as it h...

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) aggregate reports are usually generated once a day. However, you can request more frequent reports by configuring your DMARC record with the ri tag with a shorter time interv...