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DMARC configuration

DMARC configuration

Hello everyone, let's look into the configuration part of DMARC. As stated earlier, if you don't set up SPF or DKIM before enabling DMARC, messages sent from your domain will probably have delivery issues. Similar to SPF and DKIM records, your DMARC policy is defined in a line of text values called a DMARC record. So for us to configure the DMARC records, we will first check if there are any DMARC entries in my domain provider DNS settings. So I will come to the Google admin toolbox and click on this dig option over here. In the dig option, we have to select txt because DMARC records are also type of txt records similar to SPF and DAIM. Now I'll add the name as underscore DMARC dot my domain name and we see record not found. That means there is no entry of DMARC record in my domain provider DNS settings. What we need to do is that we have to go to GoDaddy, in my case, since it is my domain registrar and add the record there in the DNS settings. Before that, let's look into the syntax…

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