Email authentication

DMARC checker

Inspect the DMARC policy that tells receivers how to handle mail that fails SPF or DKIM alignment.

Quick guide

What DMARC adds to SPF and DKIM

DMARC checks whether the domain visible to the recipient aligns with SPF and/or DKIM authentication. It also lets a domain publish a handling policy and reporting addresses.

A p=none policy is normally used for monitoring. p=quarantine and p=reject ask receivers to take progressively stronger action on messages that fail DMARC.

p=none

Collect reports and observe failures without asking receivers to quarantine or reject them.

p=quarantine

Ask receivers to treat failing messages as suspicious, often by sending them to spam.

p=reject

Ask receivers to reject messages that fail DMARC.

How it works

The _dmarc TXT record is parsed into its policy, alignment settings, reporting addresses, percentage and other DMARC tags.

Terminal shortcut

Prefer the command line?

Read a DMARC policy from the Terminal.

> dmarc example.com Run in Terminal ->