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by toast0 1766 days ago
It's been years since I did it, but I added DMARC to a high volume domain and the reports were useful while I was adding it, to help make sure I didn't forget any authorized senders, but once I got that finalized, the reports were totally unactionable.

I can't do anything about the attempted spoofs; I'm not going to track down everyone's open relays, and if I would, DMARC reports aren't really enough anyway.

At the time, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft all sent reports, which is a good portion of email, although certainly missing a lot. I think there were a few other smaller names, which I no longer remember.

Of course, it almost doesn't matter. Spam/phishing mail to our users still continued, they just stopped spoofing our address. It's not like very many people look at the domain mail claims to be from anyway; modern clients hide it, too.

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> they just stopped spoofing our address.

This also means that emails from your domain is less likely to get marked as spam, which can be a significant win for smaller domains.