{"id":39430,"date":"2024-01-19T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=39430"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:20:42","slug":"what-are-dmarc-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/email\/what-are-dmarc-records\/","title":{"rendered":"What are DMARC records?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) record<\/strong> is a TXT record published in the DNS. This record instructs email receivers on how to handle emails that do not pass DMARC authentication and specifies the destination for reports on email authentication statistics. Emails typically fail authentication on the receiver’s side when SPF<\/a> or DKIM<\/a> failures occur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The DMARC record comprises of various tags, each providing instructions to the email receiver on authentication policies. <\/span><\/p>\n

Below are the commonly used tags<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

v (Version)<\/b>: Specifies the DMARC version being used. Example: v=DMARC1.<\/span><\/p>\n

p (Policy):<\/b> Instructs the email receiver what to do with email that fails authentication. Possible values include none, quarantine, or reject.<\/span><\/p>\n

rua (Aggregate Reporting):<\/b> Specifies the email addresses to which aggregate DMARC reports should be sent.<\/span><\/p>\n

ruf (Failure Reporting):<\/b> Specifies the email addresses to which forensic (failure) DMARC reports should be sent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Follow the steps below to add a <\/strong>DMARC record<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"A DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) record<\/strong> is a TXT record published in the DNS. This record instructs email receivers on how to handle emails that do not pass DMARC authentication and specifies the destination for reports on email authentication statistics. Emails typically fail authentication on the receiver's side when SPF<\/a> or DKIM<\/a> failures occur.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/span>The DMARC record comprises of various tags, each providing instructions to the email receiver on authentication policies. <\/span>\r\n\r\nBelow are the commonly used tags<\/strong>:<\/span>\r\n\r\nv (Version)<\/b>: Specifies the DMARC version being used. Example: v=DMARC1.<\/span>\r\n\r\np (Policy):<\/b> Instructs the email receiver what to do with email that fails authentication. Possible values include none, quarantine, or reject.<\/span>\r\n\r\nrua (Aggregate Reporting):<\/b> Specifies the email addresses to which aggregate DMARC reports should be sent.<\/span>\r\n\r\nruf (Failure Reporting):<\/b> Specifies the email addresses to which forensic (failure) DMARC reports should be sent.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFollow the steps below to add a <\/strong>DMARC record<\/strong>.<\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DMARC records instruct email receivers on how to handle emails that do not pass DMARC authentication and specifies the destination for reports on email authentication statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[20980,20971,20974,20977,20183],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-39430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","tag-dmarc-authentication","tag-dmarc","tag-add-dmarc-record","tag-what-are-dmarc-records","tag-authentication"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":119,"name":"Email","slug":"email","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":119,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Learn the basics and get going with our easy to set up email guides","parent":0,"count":125,"filter":"raw","term_order":"62","cat_ID":119,"category_count":125,"category_description":"Learn the basics and get going with our easy to set up email guides","cat_name":"Email","category_nicename":"email","category_parent":0}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":20980,"name":"DMARC authentication","slug":"dmarc-authentication","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20980,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1140"},{"term_id":20971,"name":"dmarc","slug":"dmarc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20971,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1141"},{"term_id":20974,"name":"add dmarc record","slug":"add-dmarc-record","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20974,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1142"},{"term_id":20977,"name":"What are DMARC records?","slug":"what-are-dmarc-records","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20977,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1143"},{"term_id":20183,"name":"authentication","slug":"authentication","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20183,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1402"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Alexia Papadatos","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/alexia\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9dc491b1be8ef5ac4a33e742399256d17daf7e6fe70bc88cce1a7bbc06c1a406?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39430"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=39430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}