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DMARCIAN: How Email Forwarding Affects DMARC
- August 18, 2023
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: DMARC DMARCIAN Email Authentication Email Services Industry News
DMARCIAN just released another interesting write-up:
Email forwarding can sometimes throw a wrench in DMARC authentication results, and we often get questions about how to manage forwarded emails, especially with mailing lists. Emails are forwarded automatically all the time, more so than most people expect. Forwarding happens automatically when you send an email to myfriend@example.com and that person has set up their email to be forwarded to a separate inbox, like myfriend@dmarcian.com. Another common instance of automatic forwarding is a mailing list, like Google Groups. From the perspective of the email receiver—the one that is generating DMARC XML reports—your email appears to be coming from an infrastructure that has nothing to do with you. In Google Groups, DMARC data that displays forwarding will show your domain as a sender, a Google IP as the sender, and a variety of receivers who send the DMARC report as part of their DMARC check. This number can increase quite
Read more from the original source: How Email Forwarding Affects DMARC
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