ParseDMARC is an open-source, self-hosted DMARC report analyzer. For those who don’t know, DMARC is an email security standard that can protect your domain name from email spoofing and also identify incoming spoofed emails to protect end users. In a previous article, we discussed how to create DMARC DNS record for your domain name and in this tutorial, we are going to set up ParseDMARC on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 server so we can analyze DMARC reports.

Prerequisites
It is assumed that you have created a DMARC DNS record for your domain name.

To generate visualized data, ParseDMARC relies on Elasticsearch and Kibana, both of which are RAM hungry. They will use about 2G RAM after installation and require more RAM to process data. So you need a server with at least 3G RAM. You can click this special link to get $100 free credit on DigitalOcean. (For new users only). If you are already a DigitalOcean user, then you can click this special link to get $50 free credit on Vultr (for new users only). Once you have an account at DigitalOcean or Vultr, install Ubuntu 18.04 or 16.04 on your server and follow the instructions below.

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