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What is a DNS DMARC record?

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  1. What is a DMARC report? DMARC reports are extremely important because they give administrators the information they need to decide how to adjust their DMARC policies — for instance, if their legitimate emails are failing SPF and DKIM, or if a spammer is trying to send illegitimate emails. The example.com administrator would add the rua part of this policy to send their DMARC reports to a third-party service (with an email address of "[email protected]"):

    In DMARC reporting

  2. What is a DMARC policy? An email either passes or fails SPF and DKIM. Example.com's domain policy could be:

    In Email authentication testing