Starting in February 2024, Gmail and Yahoo require those who send bulk email to have a DMARC record associated with their sending domain.
This DMARC record does not have to be complicated.
A minimal DMARC record will meet the standard set by these providers.
When editing your DNS, create a TXT record for your sending domain.
It's very similar to creating an SPF record.
In the type of record, you will choose or type:
TXT
For most provider's the value for the Host field will be:
_dmarc
In rare exceptions, you may need to set the value to be:
_dmarc.<sendingdomain>
Value: v=DMARC1; p=none;
To illustrate, this screenshot is from the provider GoDaddy.
If a provider wanted the sending domain and it was being set up for FeedBlitz.com, it would look like this:
_dmarc.feedblitz
Here are instructions for creating TXT entries by provider.
- 1&1
- BlueHost
- Cloudflare - please note that they have a DMARC generator, linked in the article. That will create a strict DMARC policy and the ability to create a TXT record, as illustrated in this article. Do not use the proxy setting on any records created for authentication.
- DreamHost
- GoDaddy
- Hostgator
- Hostinger
- Hover
- Namecheap
- NameHero
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