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DMARC tag names use uppercase

MINOR

DMARC · Minor · costs 8 points · RFC 9989 section 4.8

What it means

Tag names (the offending value) should be lowercase. Most receivers cope, but some do not, and it is a needless risk on a record this important.

How to fix it

Write tag names in lowercase: p, sp, rua, adkim.

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 4.8. 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_UPPERCASE_TAGS

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