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DMARC quarantines instead of rejecting

MINOR

DMARC · Minor · costs 8 points · RFC 9989 section 4.7

What it means

Mail that fails authentication for example.com is delivered to spam rather than refused. Better than nothing, and one step short of protection, a spoofed message still reaches the mailbox.

How to fix it

Once your reports show only legitimate senders passing, change p=quarantine to p=reject.

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 9989 section 4.7. 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_P_QUARANTINE

Every fix on this site is yours to implement. If you would rather someone did it, I take this work directly.