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Automated setup and configuration for most of OpenAustralia Foundation's servers
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Setup DMARC records for each of our domains from which we send email #153

Open mlandauer opened 4 years ago

mlandauer commented 4 years ago

It's the right thing to do and should give us a little more visibility on what is happening out in the world with our email

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC

mlandauer commented 4 years ago

We set up a DMARC record for planningalerts.org.au initially just for getting the aggregate reports. This was immediately useful as it showed that we actually had another DMARC problem where the domain alignment was out for SPF. However we received lots of emails to contact@planningalerts.org.au which was annoying but okay in the short term. I've now switched it over to using a free service by postmark.

benrfairless commented 3 months ago

DKIM and DMARC are now mandatory for something bulk email providers (https://dmarcian.com/yahoo-and-google-dmarc-required/).

It's also affecting Right to Know, so a fix ASAP would be appreciated.