DMARC record without rua or ruf entry

Question

I have set up my server with SPF and DKIM and activated DMARC with

v=DMARC1; pct=100; ruf=mailto:[email protected]; rua=mailto:[email protected]; p=reject

So far everything works perfectly, I get reports for ± all emails send via the server (not everyony seems to have implemened DMARC reports) and reports for emails failing the SPF/DKIM checks.

As far as I understand DMARC does many things:

1. Tells servers what do do with emails failing SPF/DKIM checks (reject them in my case)
2. Tells servers do send reports for email received (rua)
3. Tells servers do send reports for email received which failed SPF/DKIM checks (ruf)

The documentation on dmarc.org seems to imply that I should only activate rejected reports if I'm willing to possibly get spammed. In my experience the normal reports fir successful mails seem to be a lot more spammy, and less helpfull, and the few

My question is: Do I need the rua and ruf parts of DMARC at all, once I confirmed that all legitimat emails are propperly received, and I don't experience problems with falsly spammed emails? Is my DMARCentry still valid, and will it be propperly applied, if it simply says:

v=DMARC1; pct=100; p=reject

Answer 1

In DMARC, rua and ruf are optional. In addition, pct defaults to 100.

So your record is valid, but you can further condense it without changing its meaning: v=DMARC1; p=reject.

Personally I feel safer collecting the reports somewhere in case there is some weird failure, but that's up to you.