DMARC for Developers

Stop Fighting Email Authentication. Ship It.

PowerDMARC gives you hosted DNS records, real-time reporting, and a full REST API, so you can deploy a compliant DMARC infrastructure in days, not months.

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REST Request
Live Response
curl -X GET \
  "https://api.powerdmarc.com/v1/domains/example.com/reports" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
Endpoint Ready
{
  "domain": "example.com",
  "total_messages": 48231,
  "spf_pass": 46981,
  "dkim_pass": 47110,
  "dmarc_pass": 46587,
  "unauthorized_sources": 3
}

Fetching authentication matrix payload...

Email Authentication Is a Developer Problem Now

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft now require DMARC for bulk senders, making email authentication a business requirement rather than a security nice-to-have.

When attackers spoof your domain, users lose trust, deliverability suffers, and legitimate messages may never reach inboxes. Yet developers are often expected to solve these problems while managing infrastructure, applications, and security priorities.

PowerDMARC removes the complexity so you can deploy email authentication correctly and move on to building your product

Why SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Are Harder Than They Look

Manual DNS records are a liability.

A single misconfigured SPF record with one extra space, or one “all” mechanism in the wrong place, can break email for your entire domain. There's no staging environment for DNS.

DMARC aggregate reports arrive as raw XML

Parsing, normalising, and storing RUA reports across hundreds of domains is a multi-sprint project before you've written a single alert rule.

You can't enforce DMARC safely without full source visibility

Moving to p=reject before you've identified every legitimate sending source from your CRM, your transactional provider, to your billing system, means rejecting real mail. The only safe path to enforcement is complete coverage first.

What PowerDMARC Does for You

PowerDMARC handles the implementation layer so you can focus on your product.

Hosted DNS Records - No Manual Edits

Publish and update DMARC, SPF, DKIM, BIMI, and MTA-STS records through the dashboard or API. Changes propagate without touching your DNS provider directly.

  • Record validation runs before every publish
  • Misconfigured records get caught before they go live
  • No DNS provider credentials required
  • Changes are versioned and reversible

Aggregate Report Parsing

DMARC aggregate reports arrive as raw XML compressed in ZIP attachments. PowerDMARC ingests, parses, and normalises every report into structured human-readable versions across 7 query categories.

  • No XML parsing infrastructure required
  • Structured reporting across domains
  • Source-level authentication visibility
  • Easy integration into internal workflows and SIEM platforms

Real-Time Monitoring and Alerts

Every source sending from your domain appears in your monitoring feed. Alerts fire when failure rates spike, a new unauthorised sender appears, or your DMARC policy status changes. Route alerts straight to your workflow via Webhooks.

  • Source-level visibility & authentication pass/fail tracking
  • Unauthorized sender detection
  • Real-time alerts and notifications for faster incident response

Safe Policy Enforcement

Moving from p=none to p=reject without full source visibility breaks legitimate mail. PowerDMARC tracks every sending source and surfaces a readiness score before you tighten enforcement. You get a clear signal when it's safe to proceed.

  • Reduce risk during enforcement
  • Track readiness across domains
  • Validate sender alignment
  • Move confidently from monitoring to protection

Two Ways to Integrate: REST API and MCP Server

PowerDMARC offers two programmatic access modes depending on how your team works.

REST API

Full REST API covering record management, report retrieval, domain monitoring, and multi-tenant organization management. The right choice for SIEM pipelines, CI/CD hooks, internal dashboards, and any automation script.

API at a Glance
Base URL
App URL: https://api.powerdmarc.com/v1 (v2 also available)
MSSP base url: https:///api/v1
Auth
Bearer token (per API key)
Response format
JSON
Spec
OpenAPI 3.0 (Swagger UI available)
Rate limiting
60 per minute per key; batch endpoints available for bulk operations
Multi-tenancy
Organisation-scoped keys; full MSSP/tenant management
Webhooks
Supported for alerts and report ingestion events

MCP Server

If your team uses AI coding tools, the PowerDMARC MCP (Model Context Protocol) server lets you query DMARC data, manage records, and investigate authentication failures directly from your editor, without switching context to a dashboard or writing one-off scripts.

Works with:
What you can do from your editor
  • Ask "Why is sending source X failing DMARC for client.com?" and get structured report data back inline.
  • Generate and publish a corrected SPF or DMARC record without leaving the terminal.
  • Investigate a spoofing alert mid-incident without opening a browser.

How Teams Use the PowerDMARC API

MSSP & Multi-Tenant Automation

Managing DMARC for 50+ client domains manually doesn't scale. With the API, you can provision new domains, push record updates, and retrieve per-org reporting data programmatically, all under a single API key with org-scoped access control.

Useful for White-label resellers, MSSPs managing client email security, platforms embedding DMARC into products.

SIEM Integration

Feed authentication failures and DNS change events directly into Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or any SIEM that accepts webhook or REST input. Correlate DMARC failure spikes with other security events to detect active spoofing campaigns.

Useful for SOC teams centralizing email authentication telemetry, security teams correlating threat signals.

Infrastructure-as-Code & CI/CD Pipelines

Use the API to validate DNS record state as part of your deployment pipeline. Before a domain goes live, assert that DMARC, SPF, and DKIM are correctly configured. Catch misconfigurations early.

Useful for DevOps teams enforcing security as a deployment gate, IaC workflows managing large domain fleets.

AI-Assisted Workflows with MCP Server

For teams using Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, the MCP server removes the context-switching tax. Instead of opening a dashboard mid-incident, query PowerDMARC directly from your editor in plain language.

> Investigate DMARC failure spikes...
> Validate DNS record changes...
Typical Use Cases Investigating incident spikes, production validation, generating corrected records in-terminal.

Set Up in Minutes, Not Weeks

Most teams don’t need another infrastructure project. They need email authentication to work correctly.

1
Connect Your Domain

Add your domain and verify ownership.

2
Publish Authentication Records

PowerDMARC generates and manages the required records for DMARC, SPF, DKIM, BIMI, and MTA-STS.

3
Monitor Email Sources

View authentication activity across all sending sources from a centralized dashboard.

4
Enforce When Ready

Move toward quarantine and reject policies with confidence backed by real reporting data.

What Developers Say

"The API made it possible for us to integrate DMARC management directly into our client onboarding workflow. What would have taken us months to build in-house was running in production within a week."

"Simple but powerful. The reporting API is the part I didn't expect to be this clean, structured JSON responses meant we could pipe data straight into our dashboard without any transformation layer."

"The dual strengths here are security depth and simplicity of setup. We had multi-domain monitoring running for our clients in a single afternoon."

Frequently Asked Questions

What is DMARC, and why do I need it as a developer?
DMARC is an email authentication standard that helps prevent domain spoofing and improve email deliverability. If your organization sends email, DMARC helps ensure recipients can trust messages originating from your domain. Learn more about what DMARC is and how it works.
Does PowerDMARC work with any DNS provider?
Yes. PowerDMARC supports environments regardless of the DNS provider. Hosted record options and validation tools simplify deployment across different infrastructures.
What is the difference between p=none, p=quarantine, and p=reject?
p=none monitors email authentication without enforcement.

p=quarantine sends failing messages to spam or junk folders.

p=reject blocks failing messages from being delivered.

Most organizations begin with monitoring before progressing to enforcement.
How do DMARC aggregate reports work?
Mailbox providers send DMARC aggregate reports containing authentication results for email claiming to originate from your domain. PowerDMARC parses these XML reports and presents the data through dashboards and APIs.
Can I manage multiple domains?
Yes. PowerDMARC supports centralized management of multiple domains, making it suitable for enterprises, MSSPs, and multi-tenant environments.
Is there an API?
Yes. PowerDMARC provides REST API access for domain management, reporting, monitoring, and automation workflows. API access is available through custom plans.
How long does setup take?
Most organizations can begin monitoring email authentication activity within minutes after domain verification and record publication.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. You can start with a free plan to gain visibility into your email authentication posture before scaling to advanced capabilities.

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