{"id":200,"date":"2020-10-01T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glockapps.com\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=200"},"modified":"2025-06-04T08:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:40:54","slug":"how-dmarc-compliance-calculated","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/glockapps.com\/help\/art\/how-dmarc-compliance-calculated\/","title":{"rendered":"How is DMARC compliance calculated?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DMARC compliance ratio is calculated by dividing the number of emails that passed DMARC authentication by the total number of messages sent from your domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An email is considered passed DMARC when it passes either SPF evaluation and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/How is DMARC compliance calculated?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DKIM<\/a> evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To comply with DMARC through SPF, you need to use a custom SPF domain (Return-Path domain or &#8220;Mail FROM&#8221; domain), because SPF validation requires the domain in the &#8220;From&#8221; address to match the SPF domain. 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