If you send email marketing campaigns using FreshMail, you already know how powerful and flexible the platform is. However, to ensure your emails actually reach the inbox and don’t get blocked, flagged as spam, or rejected outright, you need to authenticate your domain properly. That’s where SPF and DKIM come in — two critical email…
A DMARC record is a DNS TXT policy that tells receiving mail servers how to handle emails that claim to be from your domain by verifying SPF/DKIM alignment, and it matters because it prevents spoofing, improves deliverability, and gives you visibility through reports to enforce authentication safely. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) builds…
Email authentication is no longer a luxury — it’s a critical part of protecting your domain from abuse, spoofing, phishing, and deliverability issues. At DMARCReport, we help thousands of organizations understand and resolve technical email security problems every day. One of the most common issues domain owners encounter when managing DMARC records is an error…
To create a DMARC record, you publish a DNS TXT record at _dmarc.yourdomain.com containing at least v=DMARC1 (this must be first) and p=(none|quarantine|reject), and you typically add optional tags like rua, ruf, pct, adkim, aspf, sp, fo, and ri to control reporting, alignment, rollout, and subdomain behavior. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) tells…
To set up DMARC for stronger email authentication and trust, correctly configure SPF and DKIM for every sending source, publish an initial monitoring DMARC policy (p=none) with aggregate/forensic reporting, analyze alignment and failure data, then progressively enforce to p=quarantine and p=reject while maintaining DKIM key hygiene and continuous monitoring. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and…
As email threats continue to grow, protecting your domain from phishing, spoofing, and fraudulent use of your brand is no longer a “nice-to-have” — it’s essential. And at the heart of strong email defense is DMARC — Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance. When implemented correctly, DMARC empowers domain owners to take control over how…
Publish a TXT record at _dmarc.yourdomain.com with the value “v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:rua@dmarcreport.com; ruf=mailto:ruf@dmarcreport.com; fo=1; pct=100; adkim=r; aspf=r; sp=none” to begin DMARC monitoring for Office 365 safely and effectively. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) builds on SPF and DKIM to tell receivers how to handle messages that fail authentication. In an Office 365 tenant,…
You can monitor, analyze, and protect your domain for free by implementing SPF, DKIM, and an initial p=none DMARC record with RUA/RUF pointing to DMARCReport, then using DMARCReport’s free analyzer to visualize alignment, tune policies toward quarantine/reject, handle third‑party senders, and integrate alerts and privacy controls at scale. Modern email authentication hinges on three open…
In today’s highly digital world, email remains one of the most essential communication channels for businesses — especially in the insurance industry. Unfortunately, as the industry embraces digital transformation, it also becomes an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals leveraging email to defraud companies and unsuspecting policyholders alike. Email-borne insurance scams aren’t just an annoyance. When…
To set up DMARC for your Google Workspace domain without breaking delivery, publish SPF (v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all), generate and enable 2048‑bit DKIM in the Google Admin console, start with DMARC at p=none with rua/ruf to DMARCReport for monitoring, fix and align all third‑party senders via DKIM or aligned SPF, then progressively move to quarantine and…
Email security is among the most critical aspects of modern digital communications. Every year, organizations lose money, time, and reputation due to email fraud, phishing attacks, and domain spoofing. Studies show that even small breaches can cost businesses tens of thousands of dollars, while larger enterprises can lose millions per incident. With email-based threats rising…
Start by publishing a DMARC TXT record with aggregate (RUA) and optional forensic (RUF) destinations, ingesting those reports into a parser like DMARCReport, and then reading the aggregate XML fields—policy, alignment, SPF/DKIM results, source IP, and message counts—to correlate failures with your SPF/DKIM/DNS configuration and remediate misconfigurations before gradually tightening policy. DMARC is an authentication…
You should expect initial DMARC-driven delivery effects as soon as DNS caches refresh your new TXT record—typically within 5–60 minutes, broad enforcement by major mailbox providers within 1–24 hours, and full stabilization (including report-based visibility) within 24–72 hours. DMARC is evaluated in real time on each message, but its input—the DMARC TXT record at _dmarc.yourdomain—travels…
The best tools for validating and analyzing a DMARC record example are a combination of web validators (DMARCReport Validator, MXToolbox, dmarcian, DMARC Analyzer), command-line utilities (dig/host/nslookup, OpenDMARC), open-source parsers (parsedmarc), and APIs (DMARCReport API, SecurityTrails, WhoisXML) supplemented by deliverability testbeds (Gmail/Outlook header analysis, Mail-Tester, GlockApps) to cover both syntax accuracy and real-world enforcement outcomes. Why…
In today’s digital ecosystem, email remains one of the most vital communication channels for organizations worldwide. Yet, without strong safeguards in place, email domains can be abused by attackers to send phishing, spoofing, and other fraudulent messages that harm your brand, customers, and internal users. To protect your domain and ensure only authorized email senders…
DMARC is important for protecting emails sent from G Suite (Google Workspace) because it verifies your domain’s messages via SPF/DKIM alignment and tells receiving servers to quarantine or reject spoofed mail, which dramatically reduces phishing while improving deliverability and visibility through standardized reporting. G Suite’s native security (SPF and DKIM) prevents many spoofing attempts, but…
