We sometimes hear from our customers who have problems with how Mailchimp handles SPF. They see the following in their dmarcian dashboard: SPF is not possible as Mailchimp uses their own domain in the bounce address. And sometimes they’ll message us with some variation of the following: I chatted with... Read more »
February 24, 2021
July 31, 2024
For those of you that use Wix as your DNS provider, here are brief instructions for adding a DMARC record. If your domain has been added through one of their partners, you’ll manage your DNS records through that hosting partner. NOTE: It’s always good practice to check the primary instructions... Read more »
February 19, 2021July 28, 2025
Our Account Progress Report provides an overview into different aspect of your monitored domains, including a domain snapshot, a compliance summary, email volume by category, policy progress, and other elements.
January 25, 2021July 14, 2025
Published in the DNS, a DMARC policy allows a domain owner to indicate that their email messages are protected by SPF and/or DKIM and is used to determine what is done to non-compliant email: People often ask us, “What’s the difference between the DMARC policies quarantine and reject, and what... Read more »
December 19, 2020February 29, 2024
For those of you that use DNS Made Easy as your DNS provider, here are brief instructions for adding a DMARC record. If your domain has been added through one of their partners, you’ll manage your DNS records through that hosting partner. NOTE: It’s always good practice to check the... Read more »
December 2, 2020May 30, 2025
For those of you that use DYN as your DNS provider, here are brief instructions for adding a DMARC record. If your domain has been added to DYN through one of their partners you’ll manage your DNS records through that hosting partner. NOTE: It’s always good practice to check the... Read more »
December 2, 2020July 28, 2025
On September 29, 2020 dmarcian’s Robert Roskam, staff engineer, appeared on a GreatHorn podcast to talk about the rise of online attacks. The US presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming holidays and the increase in employees working from home are creating more opportunities for scammers to work their way into... Read more »
November 23, 2020April 18, 2023
In this white paper, we partnered with our friends at SparkPost to discuss why it’s so critical to not only be aware of but understand and implement DMARC best practices to defend your brand’s integrity and overall security posture. Starting small by first communicating the importance of DMARC to stakeholders... Read more »
November 10, 2020April 18, 2023
Amid an incomparable shift in the digital security landscape, Gartner has released its list of critical security projects for 2020-2021 with a focus on driving business value and decreasing risk. Recognizing that email continues to be the top threat vector, one of those priorities is DMARC. Arguably the world’s leading... Read more »
October 20, 2020May 30, 2025
SPF is all about publishing a list of servers that are authorized to send on behalf of a domain. After writing out a list of servers in the form of an SPF record, the right thing to do is to end an SPF record with something that says “and everything... Read more »
October 3, 2020May 14, 2026