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by HeapsGood 107 days ago
Good luck with your updates.

It’d be nice to be able to click on subordinate nodes in the visualization and drill-down into that domain.

Also, be cautious with calling ‘soft fail’ as “safe” and ‘hard fail’ as “secure”. Hard fail is often not the recommended configuration these days, as DKIM can been more appropriate and you may be missing invalidation metrics in DMARC reports due to SMTP connections bailing-out early. Check out M3AAWG guidance.

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Thanks for the M3AAWG reference—that is a great catch.

You are spot on regarding the DMARC interaction. I used 'Safe/Secure' as simplified shorthand for the UI, but you're right that -all can sometimes pre-emptively kill connections before DMARC/DKIM evaluation, causing a loss of reporting data.

I will update the UI labels to be more technical ('SoftFail' / 'HardFail') rather than editorializing them as 'Safe/Secure' to avoid misleading users.

Love the idea of clickable nodes for the visualization drill-down. Adding that to the roadmap for the next sprint.