What is DMARC?

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is an email authentication system that protects your organization’s domains from spoofing, phishing and other cyber attacks. It builds on the widely deployed email verification techniques, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail).

Configuring DMARC for your organization can be the best thing you can do for your business. DMARC is an email authentication protocol that helps you protect your domain from BEC and impersonation attacks, while improving your email delivery rates. If your use DirectAdmin as your DNS hosting provider, you can follow these steps for your DirectAdmin DMARC setup: 

DirectAdmin DMARC Setup Guide

• Generate your custom DMARC record for your domain using free DMARC record generator 

• Login to your DirectAdmin 

• Navigate to "DNS Management"

• The DNS Editor will open up

• Click on Add to add a new DMARC TXT record 

  • In the Name field enter _dmarc 

  • In the resource type select TXT

  • In the Value field enter the DMARC record value generated for your domain, example: 

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  v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:rua@example.com; pct=100;

   

  • Hit the Save button to publish your DMARC record on DirectAdmin

  Note: It will take DirectAdmin 24-48 hours to process your record and enable DMARC authentication for your domain. Make sure you are publishing a single DMARC record per domain as more than one record will break the protocol. 

   

  Finally,  DMARC record checker will lookup the DMARC record from the DNS