Suggest that folks enable DMARC reporting

SNM supports DMARC reporting, but it's disabled by default. For email
greybeards, that's fine, but I think it would be useful to teach email newbies (as I was a few
months ago) that this is something you should seriously consider
enabling.

refs: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/pull/635
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score, and let `mxtoolbox.com <http://mxtoolbox.com/>`__ take a look at look at your setup, but if you followed the steps closely then everything
your setup, but if you followed the steps closely then everything should should be awesome!
be awesome!
Consider enabling `DMARC reporting <options.html#mailserver-dmarcreporting>`_
to be a good citizen in the mail ecosystem.