For Marketers or Non-Technical Users:
To use Valimail Monitor, you'll first need to make some DNS changes so that you can get visibility into your domain. If you're unfamiliar with making DNS updates, we recommend sharing this article with your IT team to set this up correctly
Valimail Monitor is used solely to provide our customers visibility into their DMARC data through Valimail robust DMARC reporting capabilities. Valimail Monitor does not provide the ability for customers to manage their DMARC policy and senders through SPF and DKIM configuration. DMARC policy and sender management are a few of many features of Valimail Enforce product.
Follow these steps to point your DMARC record to the Valimail Cloud.
Update your _dmarc TXT record.
This allows Valimail to receive your DMARC aggregate reports.
If you already have a _dmarc TXT record: add mailto:[email protected] to the "rua" parameter. Your TXT record should look as follows:
"v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected];" |
If you don't have a _dmarc TXT record: create the following TXT record in DNS:
Type | TXT |
Host/Name | _dmarc.<your domain name> |
Value | "v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected];" |
Example: If your domain name is vmcs1.com, the host/name value to create for the TXT record would be _dmarc.vmcs1.com
⚠️ Note:
If a _dmarc TXT record already exists, be sure to only add [email protected] to the "rua" parameter; do not modify any other parameters in the record unless you're sure of what you're doing, you may impact email deliverability for your organization.
No change to your email flow will occur. Valimail will see no PII.
NOTE: We do not recommend pointing your DMARC record via NS to Valimail. For our Monitor users pointing via TXT will suffice.