Receivers overrode your policy

What it means

Receivers recorded N kinds of override on N messages, most often "local_policy". An override means the receiver decided its own judgement beat your published policy, usually for forwarded or list mail it already trusts.

How to fix it

Read the reason against each source in the table. These are informative, not errors: they explain why a message you expected to be blocked was delivered, or the reverse.

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the RUA 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, including how reporting works, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against RFC 9990 section 3.1.6. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other RUA conditions

• You are ready to turn enforcement on
• Some of this is forwarded mail, not an attack
• Somebody is sending as you, and it is being delivered
• Unauthenticated mail is getting past your policy
• Your policy stopped forged mail
• Your own mail is failing authentication