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So after about 60+ hrs of setting up DMARC, our account was finally re-enabled to allow Email2Fax functionality. Many of our users have access to update their email addresses that are allowed to send faxes via email. What will happen when one of them enters an email address that is not setup with DMARC? For example, they could enter their own personal ISP-provided email address that could easily not have DMARC setup. Will this trigger our entire account and stop all users from being able to send email2fax again?? I need to know what is triggering this and how to manage it.

We had the same issue and from our investigating, testing, calling, etc. - this is what I believe has occurred (would be nice if RC would publish something?!):

On Apr.15th, it looks like RC network security was changed and it was rolled out over several days to make SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email policies MANDATORY for all email addresses being used for Email2Fax. Their published article from May.21.2021 ( link ) explains this as a recommended best practice for improved email reliability, BUT I never saw anything published since that indicated they were making this mandatory on any scheduled date - maybe I missed it.

As part of activating this security policy, any accounts (not just extensions, but entire accounts) had their Email2Fax settings on all user extensions disabled and disappeared. This was a planned network change, not an outage issue - thus it is not showing on the system status portal.

RESOLVE: To re enable the functionality, you have to setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC for your email domain of the email addresses setup to send faxes from. Then you have to open a case to get it re enabled. It took us 5.5 days to get ours re enabled. When it was re enabled, we were not notified and our open case was not updated or closed - we just found out by testing several times every day until it started working again (and the ext settings reappeared)

OUTSTANDING: Since some users and admins may set "allowed email addresses" as ones that they cannot setup SPF, DKIM, and DMARC (eg. ISP-provided free email accounts, etc.) there could be problems with re enabling the functionality or the functionality be disabled again in the future? I have submitted a case requesting what is going to trigger this problem again in the future so that we can manage it better, but have not received any response yet.

Having the exact same issue with missing section in user acount settings (email addresses to fax) and not being able to send email to fax. Ticket No. 15094547. Spent almost an hour on the phone yesterday with support who rendered no assistance whatsoever. I've learned more in this thread than I did with the hour conversation. Ticket was being escalated but I have not received a call back.

Hi @zkv1, please make sure your email domain complies with the policies so that the Support Team can turn back your Email-to Fax feature. For your guide, check the KB article below. I will also follow up with your ticket.

https://support.ringcentral.com/au/en/article/Best-Practices-to-Prevent-RingCentral-Email-to-Fax-Service-from-Blocking-Faxes.html

our email is hosted through microsoft cloud. Its my understanding there isnt anything for us to do on our end.

I see. The Support Team will verify it for you. I already made a follow up.

Support sent me back the link Mary posted. I don't remember ever receiving a notification this was coming so this is a big issue for us.

Setting up SFP, DKIM and DMARC is going to be required for email to fax to begin again. Support is stating we will need to have our domains validated before they allow faxing.

I received a response from RC tech support that specified that they would re-enable email-to-fax functionality on my account AFTER I enabled DMARC on my email domain. BUT, RingCentral is making a HUGE ASSUMPTION that all of my users are sending faxes via email using the a single company domain - which they are not. Some use their gmail address, others use one of our companies 5 different email domains, etc. I have requested that the admin portal be re-enabled so that as an admin, I can confirm what email domains our users were using for email-to-fax, then I can confirm which of them have or don't have dmarc setup. We have setup DMARC (and the required spf and dkim) for our main company domain and am now waiting to see if they will re-enable the feature or not??

Have you tried reaching out to your account manager?

We are having the same issue and our RC support tech (we had to contact via phone because the new-case portal is broken) is indicating/confirming that they are having a system wide issue with email-to-fax functionality.

Even if the the SFP,DKIM,DMARC were required, the list of allowed email addresses function under the "Outbound Calls/Faxes > Fax Settings" should not have disappeared.

I'll post any updates we get via our support - this is urgent for us, 80% of our users do not login to any RC account, they only use email-to-fax and currently have not been able to send any outgoing faxes for 2 - 3 days!!

I had tickets open and now my service is working again and I can see all users with ability to send faxes via email.

Did you have to provide any information for RC to validate your domain? How was your issue resolved?

We asked support to revalidate the domain. It took a couple of hours but your mileage may vary depending on who is working the ticket.

After implementing DKIM with our email security provider and updating DNS we have had email to fax enabled on our account again. Support and Account Managers have no idea of what is actually going on and the process to get this resolved takes a very long time. There is a massive lack of communication going on here within RingCentral and to the customers.

Why they couldn't just safe list a clients domain is beyond me... that's what the other 3 providers have done - and no issues. (although we already had the spf, dkim, dmarc set)

What I have had trouble with is when faxing via email fails and they say to use the RC web app - and then Support tells you that doesn't work unless you go into every users settings and put their email in the 'approved fax sender' field.

What part of 'I'm the fax sender' do we have to tell the system that already knows our email address?!?

Yeah, that's what they told me, too. I can't find any notification about the change, and even the link they sent says "best practices", not "required or we're removing the feature from your account". And every recommendation for DMARC says to run it for a while on p=none to monitor before setting it to quarantine or block to make sure there aren't issues, so with no warning we either have to jump in and hope it works, or go another week or two without faxing while testing DMARC.

I agree. I asked for an extension so we can set up a maintenance period since deploying DKIM is not something that is "push and button and it works".

Same issue. This has been going on for 24 hours why has this not been posted to the service status page?

I have not been able to send a fax since Friday

I am having the same issue and was never notified. I was able to use all services daily for 7 years and it stopped last week. My case #s 15086731 and15090245

Ring Central support has confirmed there is an outage and this is being escalated up.

Have you heard any more on this? I was just told that it's because our email domain is not DMARC compliant, no mention of an outage.

Hi Travis, have you heard anything back from RingCentral? Any idea when the feature will be restored?

I have not and am unable to get any response from our account manager or their supervisor.

Thanks for the information, Travis. This is not yet up in the status portal. We'll wait for more updates.

This is also happening to mine as well, from what I am seeing. If you go in the portal for RC you'll see the options to add or remove users to send faxes no longer are there. I have also submitted a request myself and have not heard back from them.

Following the outage, are you able to pull any call logs, (fax), prior to the outage? Ours appears to be gone...

I see those options are missing from ours as well. Our users are sending from their primary accounts which is the email address on the user account itself. Everything appears to have been working last week but nothing today. We have a backlog of a few hundred faxes at this point and I am really hoping I don't have to ask 400 users to resubmit faxes.

The same thing is happening to us as well... All of my users have disappeared, and we are not able to send faxes via @rcfax.com. I cannot get a real person on the phone to assist, just told to go to the website... We have been a customer since 2015- THIS IS VERY FRUSTRATING!!!