Making Those DMARC XML Reports Human-Readable After donning my propeller beanie and carefully researching everything that was researchable about SPF, DKIM and D A!", I #umped through the hoops on the G Suite Admin panel and then headed over to our domain registrar %easyD&S) to add some ()( entries via their D&S panels* Fortunately, they have a pre+y good ,here-s how you do it. section to coach customers along* After ge+ing SPF and DKIM set up %and chec/ed using G Suite (oolbo0 %h+ps1//toolbo0*googleapps*com/apps/main2', I proceeded to add the D A!" record* Rather than #ump into the deep end of the pool, I decided to wade in the shallows for a while and #ust set the policy to simply report what-s going on and email it to me %v3D A!"45 p=none5 rua3mailto1myemail@mydomain*org'* After pu+ing this in place and double7chec/ing with the G Suite (oolbo0 %which, by the way, told me that my D A!" is 8K, but I have another problem with an ) elsewhere on another server', I waited for the 9rst report* :e ne0t morning, it arrived as a zipped 9le a+ached to an email from noreply7dmarc7 support@google*com* <hen un;ipped, there-s an ) L 9le contained within %see below'1 ) L is not the easiest 9letype to read and digest, so with the assistance of Google, I found that Libre8>ce "alc %the spreadsheet application' does a very nice #ob of importing ) = and ma/ing it ,digestible. for human consumption* Libre8>ce "alc also #ust happens to be the de facto standard 8>ce suite on many Linux distributions* 8n the ne0t couple of pages are screenshots that show how to import the D A!" ) L 9le that $oogle sends you and #ust how nice Libre8>ce "alc displays the information contained within* 1 Step 1: 8pen =ibre8>ce "alc, pull down the Data menu and select ) L Source * * * 2 Step 2: "lic/ the Source File icon in the upper left of the ) = Source window, 9nd the ) L 9le in your 9lesystem, select it, then scroll down, 9nd and select the ,record. container* It will highlight everything within it. Finally, type in ,A1. in the Mapped cell 9eld* If all appears as it does below, you-re ready to clic/ the ?Import] bu+on* 3 Step 3: All it ta/es is a li+le forma+ing and you have a bona 9de spreadsheet of useful information* Aust li/e the G Suite (oolbo0 B "hec/ ) tool told me, I have a mail exchanger issue with my list7server, so I need to do a li+le ) surgery and modify its ,header from. code on that beast. Addendum: icrosoft C0cel probably also has this capability, but since I rarely use computers that operate with that company-s 8S, I can-t spea/ to how it works* Perhaps another ($ can do a how-to for icrosoft Cxcel* 4.