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It builds on the widely deployed <a href="/wiki/Glossary#SPF">SPF</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glossary#DKIM">DKIM</a> protocols, adding linkage to the author (“From:”) domain name, published policies for recipient handling of authentication failures, and reporting from receivers to senders, to improve and monitor protection of the domain from fraudulent email.</p> <h2>Overview of DMARC</h2> <p>An overview of how DMARC works is available <a href="https://dmarc.org/overview/">on this page</a>.</p> <h2>Status of DMARC</h2> <p>The IETF RFC Editor published RFC 7489, “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)” on the Independent Submission stream on March 18th, 2015. 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