Email authentication monitoring: why set-and-forget fails
Publishing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records is just the start. Without monitoring, you won't know when authentication breaks, new senders appear, or someone starts spoofing you.
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Publishing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records is just the start. Without monitoring, you won't know when authentication breaks, new senders appear, or someone starts spoofing you.
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Forums show the same anxiety pattern: 'I want p=reject, but I'm afraid I'll block legit mail.' The rollout is mostly about gates: inventory done, alignment fixed, SPF lookup limit avoided, and then staged enforcement.
The biggest practical blocker to moving beyond p=none isn't DNS syntax. It's discovering every legitimate sender. DMARC reports expose these "unknown senders" and Shadow IT that you didn't even know existed.
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