DMARC Report Received from SiteGround: What You Need to Know
February 17, 2025 | 3 min read
Understanding DMARC Reports from SiteGround
SiteGround is a popular web hosting provider that offers domain-based email services, making it essential for users to ensure that their emails are properly authenticated. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) reports from SiteGround provide valuable insights into how recipient servers handle your emails based on SPF and DKIM checks. By monitoring and acting on these reports, you can protect your domain from email spoofing, phishing, and improve deliverability, ensuring that your emails land in the inbox instead of the spam folder.
Key Components of SiteGround DMARC Reports:
1. Source IP Address: Displays the IP address from which SiteGround sent your email. Monitoring this ensures that emails originate from authorized SiteGround IP addresses, protecting your domain from being misused by unauthorized sources.
2. DKIM Alignment Results: Indicates whether the DKIM signature in the email aligns with the domain specified in the “From” header. SiteGround supports DKIM signing, and ensuring proper alignment is crucial for passing DMARC checks and maintaining email security.
3. SPF Alignment Results: Verifies whether the sending IP address from SiteGround is authorized by your domain’s SPF record to send emails. Proper SPF alignment helps prevent email spoofing by ensuring that only authorized IP addresses can send emails from your domain.
4. Disposition: Tells you how the recipient server treated the email (e.g., delivered, quarantined, or rejected) based on your DMARC policy settings.
5. Message Count: Shows how many emails were sent from a specific IP that matched certain criteria, helping you monitor email volume and detect suspicious activity or unauthorized email attempts.
Automating DMARC Parsing for SiteGround
Manually parsing DMARC XML reports, especially if you send a high volume of emails through SiteGround, can be complex and time-consuming. Automating this process with tools like Skysnag simplifies DMARC management, allowing you to monitor and act on email authentication issues more efficiently.
– Data Aggregation from Multiple Providers: If you use SiteGround alongside other email services, Skysnag can aggregate DMARC reports from multiple providers into a single, unified dashboard. This allows you to easily track and manage email authentication data across all services.
– Visualizing Key Metrics: Skysnag transforms the raw DMARC XML data from SiteGround into visual dashboards that highlight key metrics such as DKIM/SPF pass rates, unauthorized email attempts, and active sending IP addresses. This makes it easier to monitor your email security and take action where needed.
– Automated Incident Response: Skysnag provides real-time alerts when SiteGround emails fail DMARC checks (such as DKIM or SPF misalignment). You’ll receive notifications, allowing you to take prompt action, such as updating your DNS records or blocking malicious IP addresses, ensuring your email security remains intact.
– Forensic Reporting: DMARC reports often include detailed forensic information, such as full email headers from failed authentication attempts. For SiteGround users, this forensic data can help diagnose why certain emails are failing DKIM or SPF checks, allowing you to troubleshoot and improve email security effectively.
Ensuring Proper DMARC Alignment for SiteGround
For optimal protection and deliverability of emails sent through SiteGround, it’s crucial that both DKIM and SPF are aligned with the domain used in the “From” header. Misalignment can result in emails being quarantined or rejected by recipient servers, even if other checks pass. Ensuring proper alignment protects your domain from being spoofed and enhances the chances that your emails are delivered successfully.
Skysnag’s Custom Solutions for SiteGround:
– DKIM Key Management: Skysnag helps ensure that your DKIM keys for SiteGround emails are properly aligned and up-to-date. If there are any misalignments or outdated DKIM keys, Skysnag will alert you, allowing you to quickly resolve the issue and maintain DMARC compliance.
– SPF Flattening: When using multiple services, SPF records can become overly complex and exceed DNS lookup limits. Skysnag automates SPF flattening, optimizing your SPF record to ensure that it stays within DNS lookup limits, preventing any potential failures in email authentication.
– Policy Recommendations: Based on patterns observed in your SiteGround DMARC reports, Skysnag can suggest adjustments to your DMARC policy, such as moving from “none” to stricter policies like “quarantine” or “reject.” This enhances domain protection against email spoofing and phishing while maintaining deliverability.
By automating DMARC parsing and providing customized solutions for SiteGround users, Skysnag helps ensure that your emails are properly authenticated, securely delivered, and protected from unauthorized use, ultimately enhancing your domain’s reputation and email performance.
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