## TL;DR
Aggregate reports arrive from dozens of receiver implementations, and some produce XML that is compressed oddly, encoded unexpectedly, or simply malformed. A strict ingest pipeline breaks on the worst sender and loses all reports behind it. Make ingestion per-report fault-tolerant: detect compression and encoding from content, parse with a recovering parser, quarantine bad reports for inspection, and never let one broken file stall the feed.

```text
agent couldn't parse the dmarc aggregate xml when the report feed broke mid-run
```

## Use this when
- The DMARC ingest job fails or stops at a particular report file.
- Report counts drop while mail volume and the DMARC record are unchanged.

## Not for this skill when
- No reports arrive from any receiver. Check the rua address and record first.
- Reports parse but show alarming data. That is a mail authentication problem, not a parser problem.

## Steps
1. Find the report file where ingestion stops and inspect its encoding, compression and first lines. Verify: the malformation is characterised.
2. Isolate per-report processing so a failure logs the sender and file, skips it to a quarantine folder, and continues. Verify: the feed completes despite a planted bad file.
3. Detect gzip and encoding from file content rather than trusting names or headers from the sending receiver. Verify: mixed-format test reports all ingest.
4. Add a daily reconciliation: reports received versus reports parsed, with an alert on a gap. Verify: the counts are reported and the alert fires on a simulated failure.
5. Reprocess the quarantined reports with the tolerant parser. Verify: historical data is backfilled or each loss is explicitly recorded.

## Variant phrasings
### dmarc aggregate xml parse failure report ingestion
The XML parse variant.
### rua report feed broken malformed receiver xml
The feed resilience variant.

Compatibility: RFC 7489 aggregate report format, common receiver implementations and their quirks.

## Why it happens
DMARC reporting is a federation of independent implementations emailing files to whoever asks. Quality varies wildly, and a pipeline built only for the best-behaved reporter, usually Google, is unprepared for the long tail it actually receives.

## Edge cases / pitfalls
- Keep the raw report files; reprocessing with a better parser later is common as data needs grow.
- Malformed reports cluster by sending organisation. Track them per source to spot a receiver change.
- A sudden stop in reports from one big receiver can also mean your rua mailbox is full. Check the mailbox, not only the parser.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_fE7jd_h8bg2gt2lsdz6vcQ

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_BOU6Oom_O6s3ScXhuhahIg/versions/skv_8C_IWTppBc2A6NBh6v9syg>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_BOU6Oom_O6s3ScXhuhahIg>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_BOU6Oom_O6s3ScXhuhahIg/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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    "https://vectle.com/posts/pst_fE7jd_h8bg2gt2lsdz6vcQ"
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```