Email Sources - Compliance Dashboard

Sendmarc provides a Compliance dashboard that will allow you to see authentication results for a specific domain in your account

Compliance Dashboard

The compliance dashboard is your primary and default dashboard when navigating to the email sources overview, this dashboard is designed to show your overall DMARC compliance ratio and the authentication results that helped you achieve a DMARC authentication across various email sources.

Dashboard Filters

You can filter the view based on what the email-sending sources are currently categorised as:

You can change this filter by selecting a different option in the menu.

ALL

By default, you will always land on the "ALL" view which will show all sending sources regardless of categorisation.

AUTHORIZED

This view will only show you email-sending sources that are categorised as authorized.

UNCATEGORIZED

This view will show you any email-sending sources that are uncategorized or sources that cannot be grouped.

FORWARDERS

This view will show you any email-sending sources that are categorised as a forwarding source.

UNAUTHORIZED

This view will show you any email-sending sources that have been categorized as unauthorized.

SUSPICIOUS

This view will show you any email-sending sources that have been categorized as suspicious.

Quick Insight Cards

Compliance

The compliance card will show you the overall compliance ratio of all email-sending sources on this domain.

The doughnut chart will show you the authentication technologies that were used to achieve the DMARC authentication.

Volume

The volume card will show you the overall mail volume sent by this domain over the selected time period on this domain.

The chart will show you graphs with the mail volume per day.

Sources

The sources card will show you the overall sources on this domain over the selected time period with a lookup on the number of unique IP addresses across all of these sources.

The chart will show you graphs on which day the most sources were seen sending emails.

Detailed Insight Cards

Sources

This sources view will show you in great detail how many email-sending sources we have seen over the time period of data we are looking at. This view can be expected to go over many pages.

This view is where the majority of the analysis and interpretation of data will be completed.

Authentication & Compliance Legend

You will have a legend displaying the meaning of the colours in the bar graphs showing compliance status.

Source Grouping

You can change the source grouping of any source to your desired grouping by clicking on the drop-down menu on the right-hand side.

Source Overview

On the Sources page, you will see many unique sending sources grouped by name, these values are by default filtered to show the top sending sources from the most amount of mail volume to the least amount of mail volume sent over the data period.

There are multiple headings above each value:

• Source
  
  • This will contain the name of the source and its categorisation of what type of email-sending system it may be.
• Compliance
  • This compliance bar graph will track your overall compliance percentage while also displaying the authentication technologies used to achieve DMARC authentication.
• Volume
  • The amount of email this source has sent over the data period.
• Failing DMARC
  • The amount of emails that have failed DMARC authentication.
• Passing DMARC
  • The amount of emails that have passed DMARC authentication.
• Category
  • The category applied to this specific email-sending source.

Source Details

You can expand each source to view the IP addresses and the Hostnames of the servers that sent these emails.

This displays additional information in the header columns:

• IP Address 
  • The IP Address of the server that sent this email.
  • This will also show the country flag of the country that this IP address is located in.
• Host 
  • The hostname of the server that sent this email.
• Volume 
  • The amount of email volume sent by this specific server.
  • This is also the default filtering, showing the biggest sender to the smallest sender.
• Failing DMARC 
  • The amount of emails from this specific server that failed DMARC  authentication.
• Passing DMARC 
  • The amount of emails from this specific server that passed DMARC authentication.
• Passing DKIM & SPF 
  • The amount of emails from this server that passed both SPF and DKIM authentication.
• Passing DKIM Only 
  • The amount of emails from this server that passed DKIM authentication only.
• Passing SPF Only 
  • The amount of emails from this server that passed SPF Authentication only
• Forwards 
  • The amount of emails from this server that were forwarded.

Detailed Source Overview

You can expand the data even further by clicking the IP Address. This will open a menu with more detailed contextual information about this specific IP Address and host.

This menu has multiple headers looking at various pieces of information.

Overview

The overview page has general information about this specific sending IP and host server.

• ISP (Internet Service Provider)
• Host
• Country
• Group
  • This is what Sendmarc has source grouped this specific senders service as.
• Organisation
• Volume
• Compliance Ratio
• Deliverability Ratio
• Blacklists
• Threat Level

Reporters

The reporter's section tells us who sent us these DMARC reports.

This menu has multiple headers looking at various pieces of information.

• Volume
• Reporter
  • The company or infrastructure that sent us these DMARC reports.
• % of Total
  • The percentage total that these amounts of DMARC reports make up.
• Compliance

Results Summary

The results summary page shows us the alignment and authentication details of these senders unique to this specific IP address.

This menu has multiple headers looking at various pieces of information.

• Volume
• DKIM Result
  • DKIM pass or failure.
  • DKIM Alignment.
  • DKIM Signing domain.
• SPF Result
  • SPF pass or failure.
  • SPF Alignment.
  • SPF Return Path domain.
• DMARC Result
• Published Policy
  • What was the DMARC policy active when this mail was validated.
• Policy Applied
  • What policy applied to this email.
  • This is dependent on the published policy and the authentication results.

SPF Results

The results summary page shows us the SPF alignment and authentication details of these senders unique to this specific IP address.

This menu has multiple headers looking at various pieces of information.

• Volume
• Return -Path Domain
• Alignment
• SPF Result
• DMARC via SPF
  • Was DMARC via SPF achieved?

DKIM Results

The results summary page shows us the DKIM alignment and authentication details of these senders unique to this specific IP address.

This menu has multiple headers looking at various pieces of information.

• Volume
• Signing Domain
• Selector
  • The specific selector key used to sign this specific email.
• Alignment
• DKIM Result
• DMARC via DKIM
  • Was DMARC via DKIM achieved.

Overrides

Were any overrides applied to these emails, such as ARC (Authenticated Receivers-Chain)

This menu has multiple headers looking at various pieces of information.

• Volume
• Reporter
• DMARC Result
• Published Policy
• Policy Applied
• Override Type
• Comment
  • This is where you can see any ARC comments that would be present in the headers of this email, such as ARC=FAIL or ARC=PASS.

Timeline

The timeline will show you your DMARC authentication & failure rate across the selected time period we are looking at the data.

Source Countries

The source countries card will show you the top 5 sending countries that are sending emails across all of your domains with a world map showing where the countries are located.

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