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 domains delivered by email — daily, weekly or monthly. Digests are on by default: Report frequency starts at Weekly, for a new account and for anyone invited to a workspace. You can pick another cadence or Off at any time; from an email, your mail client's unsubscribe button opts you out in one click, and the footer link asks you to confirm first.
Choosing a cadence
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 personal. On your own account, one cadence covers all your domains, in every workspace, and the digest goes to you once your email address is verified. Anyone you share a workspace with picks their own cadence, and their digest carries only the domains of the workspaces shared with them.
- 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: when a digest would cover no domains — none in your account yet, or none in the workspaces shared with you — it is skipped rather than emailed as 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 domains the digest covers 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 an unsubscribe — a footer link, which asks you to confirm first, and a standard List-Unsubscribe header, so the unsubscribe button in mail clients that support one-click unsubscribe (such as Gmail) works too. What happens when you use it is worth spelling out, because we built it differently from most:
- It takes effect immediately. Your Report frequency is set to Off; no further digests are sent to you.
- 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.
Because the setting is personal, unsubscribing turns off only your own digests from that account: if you own it, people you've shared a workspace with keep their own settings, and if a workspace was shared with you, the owner and everyone else keep theirs. The footer link leads to a confirmation page that says so before anything changes; your mail client's unsubscribe button sends the standard one-click request instead, which applies the change at once.
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?