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Reporting address is not a valid email address

URGENT

DMARC · Urgent · costs 25 points · RFC 9989 section 4.6

What it means

the offending value cannot receive mail as written, so those reports are dropped silently. You would never know the difference between this and nobody spoofing you.

How to fix it

Correct the address in the rua tag to a mailbox that exists and is monitored.

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 4.6. 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_RUA_MALFORMED

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