DMARC Goes Live
Yesterday, dmarc.org released the new DMARC standard for email. Contributors to the DMARC standard include Agari, American Greetings, AOL, Bank of America, Cloudmark, Comcast, Facebook, Fidelity Investments, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PayPal, Return Path, TDP, and Yahoo!. DMARC stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance.” DMARC provides important extensions to the existing email authentication standards by providing automated and standardized methods to process messages that fail email authentication. DMARC explains the significance of this enhancement: A DMARC policy allows a sender to indicate that their emails are protected by SPF and/or DKIM, and tells a receiver what to do if neither [...]