DKIM, which is an abbreviation for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which prevents email headers from being forged and email content from being modified. This is achieved by attaching an electronic signature to every email message sent from an address under a particular domain. The signature is published based on a private key that is available on the outgoing SMTP mail server and it can be verified by using a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. Thus, any message with altered content or a forged sender can be identified by email providers. This approach will enhance your online security substantially and you will know for sure that any e-mail sent from a business collaborator, a bank, and so on, is an authentic one. When you send emails, the recipient will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that appears to be forged may either be tagged as such or may never show up in the receiver’s inbox, depending on how the particular provider has decided to cope with such messages.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Web Hosting
If you get one of the Linux web hosting service that we’re offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be enabled as standard for any domain that you register under your account, so you won’t need to set up any records or to activate anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS resource records (so that the email messages related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud platform), a private cryptographic key will be issued momentarily on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the DNS database. All addresses created with this domain name will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, so if you send email messages such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the recipients will be sure that the messages are genuine, since the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature makes it impossible for unauthorized people to spoof your e-mail addresses.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated service come with DKIM activated by default, so if you choose a semi-dedicated hosting package and you add a domain name using our name servers through your Hepsia Control Panel, the records required for the authentication system will be set up automatically – a private encryption key on our mail servers for the electronic signature and a TXT resource record carrying the public key for the global DNS database. As the DKIM protection is set up for a certain domain name, all addresses created under it will carry a signature, so you will not need to worry that the emails that you send out may not be delivered to their destination email address or that someone may forge any of your email addresses and try to scam/spam people. This may be extremely important if you use electronic communication in your business, as your partners and/or customers will be able to distinguish legitimate messages from false ones.