DMARC Report Received from Campaign Monitor: What You Need to Know
February 17, 2025 | 3 min read
Understanding DMARC Reports from Campaign Monitor
Campaign Monitor is a leading email marketing platform used for sending large-scale marketing campaigns. To ensure that your emails sent through Campaign Monitor are properly authenticated and protected from spoofing or phishing, DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) reports provide crucial insights. These reports help you understand how recipient servers process your emails based on SPF and DKIM checks, which helps you maintain a strong sender reputation and ensure high deliverability.
Key Components of Campaign Monitor DMARC Reports:
1. Source IP Address: This shows the IP address from which Campaign Monitor sent your email. Monitoring this helps ensure that your emails are originating from authorized Campaign Monitor IP addresses, protecting your domain from unauthorized use.
2. DKIM Alignment Results: Indicates whether the DKIM signature in the email matches the domain specified in the “From” header. Campaign Monitor supports DKIM signing for authenticated email delivery, making proper DKIM alignment critical for DMARC compliance.
3. SPF Alignment Results: Ensures that the sending IP address from Campaign Monitor is authorized by your SPF record. SPF alignment helps prevent unauthorized IPs from sending emails on your domain’s behalf.
4. Disposition: Tells you how the recipient server treated the email (e.g., delivered, quarantined, or rejected), based on the DMARC policy you have implemented.
5. Message Count: Provides the number of emails that were sent from a particular IP address, helping you monitor email volume and detect any unusual activity or unauthorized sending.
Automating DMARC Parsing for Campaign Monitor
Due to the high volume of marketing emails typically sent through Campaign Monitor, manually parsing DMARC XML reports can be tedious and error-prone. Automating this process with tools like Skysnag helps streamline DMARC management and ensures quicker response times to potential issues.
– Data Aggregation Across Multiple Providers: If you’re using multiple email providers alongside Campaign Monitor, Skysnag aggregates DMARC reports from all sources into a single, unified view. This gives you comprehensive insights into the email authentication status of all your platforms.
– Visualizing Key Metrics: Skysnag transforms complex DMARC XML data from Campaign Monitor into visual dashboards, displaying critical metrics such as DKIM/SPF pass rates, unauthorized email attempts, and top-sending IPs. This makes it easier to identify and respond to issues related to email security and performance.
– Automated Incident Response: Skysnag offers real-time alerts for failed DMARC checks. If Campaign Monitor emails fail SPF or DKIM alignment, you’ll receive immediate notifications, allowing you to take swift corrective action, such as updating DNS settings or blocking suspicious IP addresses.
– Forensic Reporting: Some DMARC reports provide forensic data, such as full headers of failed authentication attempts. For Campaign Monitor users, this detailed information can help you investigate why certain emails didn’t pass authentication checks and make adjustments to your email infrastructure to improve deliverability.
Ensuring Proper DMARC Alignment for Campaign Monitor
To ensure DMARC compliance and optimal deliverability for Campaign Monitor, it is important that DKIM and SPF are aligned with the domain in the “From” header. If there’s a misalignment, emails may be quarantined or rejected by recipient servers, even if other checks pass. Proper alignment ensures that your marketing campaigns are successfully delivered and protects your domain from being flagged or abused.
Skysnag’s Custom Solutions for Campaign Monitor:
– DKIM Key Management: Skysnag helps ensure that your DKIM keys are properly aligned with your domain when sending emails through Campaign Monitor. If there are any misalignments or outdated DKIM keys, Skysnag alerts you, allowing you to quickly fix issues before they affect email delivery.
– SPF Flattening: Using multiple email services, including Campaign Monitor, can result in complex SPF records, which may hit DNS lookup limits (10 DNS lookups). Skysnag automates SPF flattening, optimizing SPF records to ensure they remain within DNS lookup limits and prevent authentication failures.
– Policy Recommendations: Based on your Campaign Monitor DMARC reports, Skysnag can suggest DMARC policy changes, such as moving from “none” to stricter enforcement modes like “quarantine” or “reject.” This enhances your domain’s protection against phishing and spoofing attacks while maintaining email deliverability.
By automating DMARC parsing and providing tailored solutions for Campaign Monitor, tools like Skysnag help ensure that your marketing emails are properly authenticated, securely delivered, and protected from unauthorized use, maximizing both your domain’s reputation and email deliverability.
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