DomainKeys Identified Mail
Find out more about DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and in what ways this option will help your business.
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an authentication system used to verify that an e-mail message has been sent by an authenticated person or email server. A digital signature is attached to the email’s header by using a private key. When the email message is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to verify who exactly sent it and whether the content has been changed in some way. The principal function of DKIM is to prevent the widespread spam and scam email messages, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for example, but the signature doesn’t correspond, you will either not get the email at all, or you’ll get it with a warning note that most likely it’s not an authentic one. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email that fails the signature check. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also supply you with an extra safety layer when you communicate with your business associates, for example, since they can see that all the email messages that you exchange are genuine and haven’t been modified in the meantime.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Web Hosting
In case you host a domain in a shared web hosting account with us, all the necessary records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality will be set up by default. This will happen once you add the domain in the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, on the condition that your domain also uses our NS resource records. A private encryption key will be generated on our mail servers, whereas a public key will be published to the DNS database automatically using the TXT record. In this way, you won’t have to do anything manually and you will be able to make use of all the benefits of this validation system – your emails will be sent to any destination without being discarded and no one will be able to send out email messages forging your e-mail addresses. The latter is very important if the type of your worldwide web presence suggests sending periodic offers or newsletters via email to potential and existing customers.
