Questions tagged [dmarc]
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) is a mechanism by which the owner of a domain uses specially formed DNS records to express domain-level policies and preferences for email validation, disposition, and reporting.
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Mail delivery and DMARC policy
My domain has a valid DKIM record, DMARC record, and SPF record. My DMARC record has p=none. Looking at headers of emails sent to gmail, I see ARC-Authentication-Results showing dkim=pass, spf=pass, ...
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How to forbid a domain to send emails? (Prevent spoofing.)
We have a few domains, which are not expected to send emails, therefore I would like to know if there is a way to effectively forbid those domains to send emails to prevent spoofing my company various ...
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Custom Email Server, gmail and DNS records questions and assistance request [closed]
I host an iredmail email server: mydomain.one It serves emails for domains mydomain.com, otherdomain.org, thirddomain.com, fourthdomain.org. The PTR record resolves to mydomain.one. This is strictly a ...
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Rewritten Return-Path causing DKIM alignment to fail?
I'm debugging DMARC failures on a chain of emails sent by Google to a Google account, forwarded to a Hotmail account, and then forwarded again to a private mail server under my control. The DMARC ...
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Gmail rejecting Microsoft 365 emails with 550 5.7.1 due to poor IPv6 sender reputation – how to mitigate?
We are using Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to send email from our domain techoffice.ca. Over the last several days, emails to Gmail users are being rejected with the following bounce message: 550-5.7....
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How do I prevent this message: "Be careful with this message. The sender hasn't authenticated this message so Gmail can't verify ..."
How do I prevent this message: "Be careful with this message. The sender hasn't authenticated this message so Gmail can't verify ..." I have set up the following DNS TXT records: Name = @ ...
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SPF, DMARC, DKIM records for internationalized domain name (OVH)
I manage multiple domains (through ovh.com) including an internationalized domain (IDN), let's call it ïdn.com. The DNS records of these domains are relatively simple/minimal. They are all configured ...
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Please help me understand a DMARC report
Hopefully someone can clear up my DMARC report confusion. Today, I got a DMARC report from Zoho. I use Zoho for my incoming email but a different SMTP service and I assumed that this means that I sent ...
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How to Prevent DMARC Failures for Forwarded Emails in a Business Email Environment?
We have implemented DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) with a "p=reject" policy to enhance email security and prevent spoofing for our business domain. ...
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Difficulty with DNS records (specifically related to sending email)
I've set up a domain for a friend (maple-tree.co.uk). He wants to be able to send and receive email at this domain, and it seems to be working, mostly, but not fully. Some mail servers (BTInternet in ...
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DMARC Alignment Failure 5% of the time
I am trying to troubleshoot a DNS (DMARC DKIM) issue and am stuck. My gut tells me that its a DNS issue where DKIM is not resolving correctly. But I don't understand how or why? So, we use a 3rd party ...
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DKIM missing and SPF wrong but Gmail not rejecting the E-Mail
https://pastebin.com/raw/yEhGGkSA I sent this email using [email protected] as FROM adress with zoho mail. SPF: "v=spf1 include:spf.mailjet.com include:_spf.google.com include:sender.zohoinvoice....
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Spoofing email address in 2024? How do they do it?
So I think I know the basics of SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and I understand why we can't spoof email addresses like it's 1998. But how does phishing like this, still exist in 2024: It's extremely rare that I ...
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I have not received a single DMARC ruf report in 4 years
My DMARC record looks like: "v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]; fo=1; adkim=s; aspf=s;" I set it up 4 years ago. But I am yet to receive a ...
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550-No Such User Here 550 Sender verify failed (in reply to RCPT TO command))
I have searched and searched and searched on the net and I can't find a solution to debug this definitive SMTP installation. So, I'd like you to help me please. 1. First of all, I have a problem where ...
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If I downgrade my DMARC policy in the future, will it have bad effect on deliverability?
I have a domain that is not being used to send email, and so I was planning to just set the DMARC policy to "p=reject", remove everything from the SPF record, etc, to encourage recipients to ...
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Why would Outlook mark the same message sent through SES as DMARC fail or pass randomly?
I have a daily report sent through AWS SES to an Outlook mailbox on workdays. For some reason outlook marked yesterday's and Friday's emails as 'Unverified sender'. Today's email wasn't marked as '...
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Why does an email NOT get delivered to a shared mail box and distribution list, but does to a single user?
We have an issue with (not)receiving email from one particular external sender that we can't figure out. An email gets sent from this sender to three types of emails. A single user email, a shared ...
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SPF - How does it really work?
While investigating DMARC reports I realised I do not really understand some aspects of email. I am trying to make sure I have concepts related to SPF and DMARC correct. If an eMail message passes ...
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SMTP - How to send mail as @example.com when example.com cannot be used as source server/IP
I have run into a bit of an issue when attempting to set up a mail system where the parent domain, example.com, already has A records and a web server as well as many clients utilizing the parent ...
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Should SMTP HELO name be the same as the MX record?
I can't seem to satisfy HELO checks on SPF records in all cases. I have an SPF record for my domain like this: "v=spf1 mx -all" The MX records in the zone are: mx0.mydomain.org.uk. ...
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DMARC Authentication in SendGrid is expecting a different value from the current one
I have one SendGrid account [email protected], I have been using it to send transactional emails from [email protected]. When I check the account [email protected], I realized that ...
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how to add multiple DMARC entries?
I use several different services to send out emails from my domain. I already have a CNAME record for _dmarc.mydomain.com that's set to mydomain.com.dmarc.emldlv.net for one service, however, another ...
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Trying to figure out a DMARC/DKIM situation
I recently helped a friend implement DMARC/DKIM/SPF and got a report that makes no sense to me. Their domain is hosted on SquareSpace, they use Google Apps for email, and Mailchimp for mailing lists. ...
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Understanding DMARC report - DKIM pass on SPF fail
I am looking for some help understanding a DMARC report for my email server. The xml content looks like the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <feedback>...
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"Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender: DMARC check failed" from forwarded mails
I'm using Procmail to forward mails to another server. I'm often getting an error message from the recipient server: host smtp-in.orange.fr[80.12.26.32] said: 501 5.2.0 y8XgrepnBNXb2 Mail rejete. ...
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What are these DMARC failures about?
I've been toying with dmarc off and on for the last couple of months. Currently I have no policy set. I am using URIReports for report collection and analysis. Most of the results are good. We use ...
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DMARC, SPF and DNS wildcards
My domain configuration has one domain and three subdomains, one of which is identical to the mail server's hostname: example.com sales.example.com internal.example.com mail.example.com I initially ...
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How to get SPF alignment to pass DMARC for a subdomain?
I have the following DNS configuration: $ dig +noall +answer -t txt example.com example.com. 626 IN TXT "v=spf1 +a +mx include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com -all" $ dig +noall +...
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AWS-SES sending from one site, from is another site - will DMARC help or hurt
Alright, to keep this simple: I have a project that is using AWS's SES to send transactional emails. The project is hosted on one site (let's call it example-site.com), but for reasons, the From: is ...
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SPF failing even though source IP is in the SPF record
I've seen (and think I understand) when DMARC checks fail on SPF because, e.g. the email has been forwarded and such like. But I don't think this is the case here. All checks on sites like MXtoolbox ...
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Phishing email but with SPF, DKIM and DMARC in "PASS" status
I received an email from a company that looked fine. Gmail deemed it ok. I checked the domain and the various DMARC, DKIM and SPF headers: they are all in "PASS" status. The sender's IP also ...
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SPF spf.protection.outlook.com is invalid for messages within tenant
When sending mails through our Exchange 365 service those mails get through successfully, but if we look at the mail headers we see that where the sender and recipient are in our tenant the mail's ...
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O365/Exchange: Send From: external domain using connector and transport rule?
I have a successful and working 365 install (it's just family, but we're an Enterprise tenant because we have multiple domains.) Everything is working fine and I've recently been reviewing and ...
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Is it a good idea to add `calendar-server.bounces.google.com` to my SPF record?
I'm trying to maximize my company's email deliverability and DMARC reports tell me we are failing DMARC SPF alignment with calendar-server.bounces.google.com which I suspect is the email server ...
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Why does my DMARC report from Google have "<dkim>fail</dkim>" when all auth_results have "pass"
We're using Microsoft 365 (outlook.office.com) for our company emails and have had DKIM set up for a while, but recently added a DMARC record. I now got a DMARC report from Google where every record ...
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DMARC without rua... proper format?
Yahoo and Google are now requiring DMARC according to Shopify. I have been setting them up for my clients, but I don't need the aggregate reporting. I only need it so that these companies can verify ...
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Incorrect dmarc record landing some mail in spam
I have just received notice from one of our partners that some of our emails sent via AWS SES are being flagged by their email provider as potential spoof DMARC. We used route 53 to add all our DNS ...
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Postfix - Only allow relaying when sent from local user
At the moment, our Postfix + Dovecot mail system has two types of users: those with a full account and those with only a forwarder. Users with a full account are in the virtual_aliases table pointing ...
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Should we add SPF records of popular email providers?
DMARC is reporting that a small fraction of our emails originate from google, microsoft, and some other providers. DMARC is also reporting that a good chunk of those emails fail both SPF and DKIM, and ...
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Sendmail unable to email to specific domain
I have a server running Sendmail and is able to email to all domains except my company's email (company1.com). I have tested to sending to gmail and other email providers with no issues. Sendmail is ...
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A Non-MX mail server + Google Workspace, is this viable?
I have a domain (example.com) configured for sending and receiving mail using Google Workspace. I need to launch additionally a separate (own) mail server. Switching completely to the new server is ...
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Should HELO, MAILFROM and From use the same domain?
I configured a mail server a couple of times before and I believe back then I thought that the answer is "yes." But I'm about to configure another one, and it seems that I was wrong. Let's ...
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Getting Spoofed - DMARC , DKIM and SPF are properly setup (AFIK)
I have been testing my DMARC policy for some weeks and I ran into this issue. Background: SPF - setup and working DKIM - set up and working (AFIK) DMARC - set up and working - looking for alignments ...
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Email message headers pass SPF check after failing earlier SPF checks. Will this result in spam?
I have an issue where email is being marked as spam by Gmail/Google Apps systems. When reading the mail headers, the most recent SPF check in the mail chain passes, but earlier checks fail. That is, ...
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DMARC reports no longer being received from google
We are seeing a large number of DMARC rejects from google from emails that have both a valid DKIM signature and a valid SPF sender. We have validated this by sending the same emails to other ISPs and ...
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Mail server running on a subdomain - how could email acceptance by other servers be influenced by dns records for different ips?
I started to run a self-hosted mail server which I want to be reachable via a subdomain only. I have an A record for mail.sub.domain.tld and an MX record for sub.domain.tld /edit: which points to mail....
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How to setup DMARC for both AWS SES and Office 365
I'm trying to get DMARC working for the emails I send via Office 365 as well as Amazon SES. It's working for Office 365 because I setup the SPF and DKIM records in my DNS but it's failing for the ...
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Changing SPF record from ~all to -all where employee inboxes are with Google and Amazon SES is used for website transactional emails
I'm interested in moving from ~all to -all in my SPF record in order to lock down my domain emails a bit more, but I want to know what the impacts might be (I do understand at ~ is SOFTFAIL and - is ...
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Why does DMARC fail for forwarded emails from this particular domain when it passes for all other domains?
I run a virtual mail server that forwards emails to my domain to a Gmail address, and I use PostSRSd to rewrite the addresses. For example, if someone sends an email to [email protected], my mail ...