DMARC


DMARC For Shopify Users

DMARC For Shopify Users

 

DMARC isn’t a new regime; however, regulations and email service providers have now made it mandatory. This exercise is meant to reduce phishing and spoofing by filtering genuine and fraudulent emails. DMARC works in accordance with SPF and DKIM to instruct recipients’ servers to either reject or mark illegitimate emails as spam, reducing the likelihood of victims engaging with such emails and getting manipulated. 

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How does Microsoft 365 Manage Inbound Email Messages that Don’t Pass the DMARC Checks?

How does Microsoft 365 Manage Inbound Email Messages that Don’t Pass the DMARC Checks?

How does Microsoft 365 Manage Inbound Email Messages that Don’t Pass the DMARC Checks?

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Microsoft refrains from rejecting emails that don’t pass the DMARC checks even if the sending domain’s DMARC policy is set to ‘p=reject.’ This is because it is considerate of the legitimate emails that get false positives. So, to avoid disrupting genuine conversations, Microsoft takes a different route.

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Microsoft’s 000 Reason for Email Failure With DMARC

Microsoft’s 000 Reason for Email Failure With DMARC

 

If you notice outgoing emails going to spam folders of only Outlook recipients and reflecting a ‘000’ reason, then it means your messages failed DMARC with ‘quarantine’ or ‘reject’ effects. You are likely to see the following snippet from the headers of email messages getting dumped in the spam folders-

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A Guide to Advancing DMARC Policies for Enhanced Email Deliverability

A Guide to Advancing DMARC Policies for Enhanced Email Deliverability

In theory, implementing DMARC is as simple as publishing a DMARC record with your DNS. Well, only if things were this straightforward. As businesses expand and email ecosystems become more complex, it becomes challenging for security teams to prevent email-based attacks and ensure that no legitimate emails are marked as spam. 

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DMARC Relaxed Vs Strict Alignment

DMARC Relaxed Vs Strict Alignment

 

Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance or DMARC alignment verifies that an email message’s ‘From’ header domain aligns with the authenticated domain used in the DKIM and SPF protocols. There are two DMARC alignment modes: SPF identifier alignment and DKIM identifier alignment.

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Understanding DMARC Percentage Tag for Advancing Policies

Understanding DMARC Percentage Tag for Advancing Policies

 

So, you have decided to jump on the DMARC bandwagon? As mail providers like Google and Yahoo have made DMARC a standard practice starting in 2024, many organizations are now recognizing the importance of implementing the email authentication protocol to mitigate the risks of phishing and spoofing and enhance security. 

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The Silly Case of Unenforced DMARC

The Silly Case of Unenforced DMARC

If you have any kind of alarm in your home, like a smoke detector or burglar alarm, you probably don’t think about how it works very often. As it turns out, every alarm, to be effective, actually has to do two things: it has to sense something bad and then it has to take action. In most cases, that action is to blast a really loud signal. Loud enough to wake you up from a sound sleep.

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Yahoo DMARC Update 2016

You may already know that Yahoo.com has a DMARC policy in place that prevents mail with yahoo.com in the from address from being delivered if it is sent from outside Yahoo’s infrastructure.

Yahoo is expanding this policy to their lower-volume Yahoo international domains below on Mar 28, 2016.

The list of domains that will become unusable is as follows:

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What is DMARC and Does It Protect Email Recipients From Fraud?

What is DMARC and Does It Protect Email Recipients From Fraud?

Discover how an innovative approach to email security protects against phishing

What if there was a way to protect your brand from bad actors using your email address for fraudulent activity?

It’s a well-known fact that cybercriminals impersonate trusted contacts in order to commit fraud. In fact, 70 percent of all email fraud is sent from a domain name that doesn’t match the one named in the email header.
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Gmail DMARC Update 2016

Gmail DMARC Update 2016

Google is constantly trying to fight both incoming and outgoing spam. Incoming spam is easy to combat because you can build tools and software at the gateway to manage and mitigate these vectors, however until now Google has allowed people to send email with an @gmail.com email address from any ISP’s server.

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