DMARCbis reports are now supported

Starting today, DMARCwise fully supports parsing DMARC reports that contain fields introduced in the new DMARCbis specification.

DMARCbis is an updated DMARC specification that is expected to be published as a Proposed Standard in the next few months. DMARCwise is now gradually adding support for DMARCbis, since the new specification is in the final stages before publishing.

We’re starting with an updated report parser that takes into consideration the new fields, which were previously ignored and not shown in the user interface.

The following information is now shown in the dashboard for each report:

• Report generator (generator field).
• Non-existent subdomain policy (np).
• Testing mode (testing), which replaces pct in DMARCbis.
• Discovery method (discovery_method), which determines whether the DMARC record was discovered with the old PSL-based approach (psl) or the new tree walk algorithm (treewalk).
• Human result for SPF (human_result).

Additionally, the “disposition” (i.e. the policy applied by a receiver on a set of messages) now accepts the value of pass, which helps distinguish between no action being taken because of a none policy and no action being taken because of a DMARC pass with an enforcing policy. You can find detailed data about the policies being applied by selecting a DMARC source in the dashboard.

Most report generators don’t support DMARCbis yet, so you will not see this data populated most of the time.

You can read more about the status of DMARCbis support in this documentation page. Find more information about what’s changing with the new specification in our dedicated article.