{"id":813,"date":"2025-12-19T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/?post_type=manual_kb&#038;p=813"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:51:42","slug":"overview-of-dmarc-quarantine-settings","status":"publish","type":"manual_kb","link":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/knowledgebase\/overview-of-dmarc-quarantine-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview of DMARC quarantine settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"translation-block translation-block-merged\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In your <em><strong>DMARC<\/strong><\/em> record, you have the option to choose one of three options, which are <em><strong>none<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>quarantine<\/strong><\/em>, or <em><strong>reject<\/strong><\/em>, respectively. Below we briefly discuss each of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>p=none<\/strong><\/em> simply means that your mail servers will monitor emails coming from your domain, but they won&#8217;t block any messages that may be fraudulent. This is a good way to start monitoring scams, but it doesn&#8217;t do much to prevent them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"mybox-476035543\" class=\"mybox-content mybox-entity-placement\"><div class=\"early-access-banner-inpost\">\r\n  <div class=\"banner-left-inpost\">\r\n    <div class=\"icon-box-inpost\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/square-info-icon.svg\" alt=\"Info\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"text-box-inpost\">\r\n      <span class=\"label-inpost\"><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Early access<\/span><\/span>\r\n      <h4><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Still need help?<\/span><\/h4>\r\n      <p><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Contact our customer service team.<\/span><\/p>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"banner-right-inpost\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/panel.mybox.com\/helpdesk2\/v\/list\/\" class=\"banner-button-inpost\"><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Message us<\/span><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"translation-block translation-block-merged\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>p=quarantine<\/strong><\/em> is a way to tell the mail server that you want all emails sent from your domain that have not passed <em><strong>SPF<\/strong> <\/em>or <em><strong>DKIM<\/strong> <\/em>checks to be placed in the spam folder instead of the regular inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>P=reject<\/strong><\/em> goes a step further and tells the recipient&#8217;s mail server to reject all emails sent from your domain that have not passed <em><strong>SPF<\/strong> <\/em>or <em><strong>DKIM<\/strong><\/em> checks. This means that such messages will never make it to the inbox (or even spam folder) of the user who receives them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[62,128],"manual_kb_tag":[996,1290,1423,1472,1880,1881,244,1882,246,1883,286,1884,339,1885,341,1886,772,1887,797,1888,798,1889,799,1890,995,1891],"class_list":["post-813","manual_kb","type-manual_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","manualknowledgebasecat-domain-management-in-panel","manualknowledgebasecat-domains","manual_kb_tag-dmarc-policy","manual_kb_tag-inbox-delivery","manual_kb_tag-mail-servers","manual_kb_tag-mail-server-configuration","manual_kb_tag-email-quarantine","manual_kb_tag-reject-policy","manual_kb_tag-spam-filtering","manual_kb_tag-monitoring-policy","manual_kb_tag-email-security","manual_kb_tag-spf-records","manual_kb_tag-mail-server","manual_kb_tag-dkim-checks","manual_kb_tag-email-deliverability","manual_kb_tag-scam-monitoring","manual_kb_tag-spam-folder","manual_kb_tag-inbox-protection","manual_kb_tag-domain","manual_kb_tag-message-rejection","manual_kb_tag-email-authentication","manual_kb_tag-domain-protection","manual_kb_tag-dkim","manual_kb_tag-quarantine-settings","manual_kb_tag-dmarc","manual_kb_tag-none-policy","manual_kb_tag-dmarc-record","manual_kb_tag-fraudulent-emails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}