Email reports and digests
Dashboards are pull; digests are push. If you'd rather have DMARCmetric tell you how your domains are doing than remember to check, you can have a summary of your whole workspace delivered by email — daily, weekly or monthly. Digests are off by default: we will never start emailing you because you signed up. You opt in, and opting back out takes one click.
Turning digests on
In your account settings, the Email notifications & reports section has a Report frequency selector with four options: Off, Daily, Weekly or Monthly. Pick a cadence and save — that's the entire setup.
Two things to know about scope:
- The setting is workspace-level. One cadence covers all the domains in the workspace, and the digest goes to every member of the workspace whose email address is verified. It isn't a per-person subscription — it's the workspace's reporting rhythm.
- Each cadence carries a matching window. A daily digest covers the last day, weekly the last 7 days, monthly the last 30 — so the numbers in each email describe the period since the previous one, not an arbitrary snapshot.
Digests are only sent when there is something to report on: a workspace with no domains yet is skipped rather than emailed an empty table. And if a scheduled send fails, it is retried within the same period instead of silently disappearing.
What's in a digest
The digest is the all-domains overview, compressed into an email you can read in the time it takes the lift to arrive. From top to bottom:
- The KPI strip — Domains, Messages, Compliance and Failing, aggregated across the workspace for the period, mirroring the dashboard's overview KPIs.
- A "needs attention" box — only when something needs it. Threats come first, then advance-the-policy nudges for domains still below
p=reject; domains simply awaiting their first reports are collapsed into a single quiet line rather than dressed up as problems. - A per-domain table — each domain's policy, message count, compliance percentage and a short status:
ok,advance policy,no reportsorthreats.
The colour language is deliberately calm: red is reserved for genuine threats and spoofing, an amber nudge means "improvable", and a domain waiting on its first reports is neutral grey. A digest that's all green genuinely means nothing needs you. Every digest also includes a plain-text version and a button straight into your dashboard.
Unsubscribe that actually works
Every digest carries a one-click unsubscribe — both a footer link and a standard List-Unsubscribe header, so the native unsubscribe button in Gmail, Apple Mail and friends works too. What happens when you use it is worth spelling out, because we built it differently from most:
- It takes effect immediately. Report frequency for the workspace is set to Off; no further digests are sent.
- It changes only that one setting. Your address is not added to any suppression list, your account is untouched, and transactional email (password resets, verification) is unaffected.
- Re-enabling is instant. Because there is no suppression-list purgatory, flipping Report frequency back on in your settings simply works — the next digest arrives on schedule, with no support ticket required.
Since the setting is workspace-level, one member unsubscribing turns the digest off for the whole workspace — the unsubscribe link leads to a confirmation page that says exactly this before anything changes.
Digests versus dashboards
A digest tells you whether to look; the dashboard is where you look. The email deliberately stops at per-domain summaries — sources, countries, charts and the policy advisor live in the product, one click away via the digest's dashboard button. If you're choosing a cadence: weekly suits most workspaces in steady state, daily earns its keep while you're actively fixing alignment or advancing a policy, and monthly fits a fleet that's already at p=reject.
For the wider picture of what DMARCmetric does beyond email, see What is DMARCmetric?