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One reporting destination has a malformed authorisation record

ATTENTION

DMARC · Needs attention · costs 15 points · RFC 9990 section 4

What it means

The authorisation record at example.com._report._dmarc.example.net exists but does not start with v=DMARC1, so receivers treat it as absent and drop reports addressed to example.net. Your own address still receives, so this costs you a copy rather than the whole picture.

How to fix it

Ask example.net to republish that TXT record containing exactly v=DMARC1, with nothing before it.

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the DMARC test or the full checkup, which examines every record at once.

Understand it properly

This page covers one condition. For the whole picture, The DMARC guide, from a first record to enforcement, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against RFC 9990 section 4. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other DMARC conditions

DMARC_EDV_MALFORMED_PARTIAL

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