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External authorisation could not be checked

MINOR

DMARC · Minor · costs 8 points · RFC 9990 section 4

What it means

The authorisation lookup for example.net did not answer, so we cannot say whether your reports are being delivered there. This is usually a temporary DNS problem at example.net, not a fault in your record.

How to fix it

Re-run the checkup shortly. If it keeps failing, ask example.net whether their nameservers are healthy.

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_UNVERIFIED

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