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Aggregate report (RUA)

DMARC aggregate (RUA) reports are daily XML summaries from receivers showing how your mail authenticated and aligned.

Aggregate reports are the feedback loop that makes DMARC usable. Set the rua= tag in your _dmarc record to one or more mailto: addresses, and participating receivers will send you a periodic summary, usually once per day, as defined in RFC 7489.

Each report is an XML document covering all mail a receiver saw claiming to be from your domain. It does not contain message content or recipient details. Instead it groups messages by sending IP address and tells you the volume, the policy applied, and the SPF and DKIM results together with whether each was aligned.

This is how you discover every system sending on your behalf, including forgotten marketing platforms and outright spoofers, before you move from p=none to enforcement. Raw XML is hard to read, so parse it into a dashboard.

To collect reports for a domain you do not own, the receiving domain must publish an authorisation record at yourdomain._report._dmarc.theirdomain. Our report analyser turns these XML files into a clear view of sources, and DMARC Engine ingests and interprets them for you as part of its done-for-you enforcement.

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Written and reviewed by the DMARC Engine team · Last reviewed June 2026

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