DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to check that an email has been sent by an authorized email server or individual. A digital signature is added to the email message’s header using a private key. When the message is received, a public key that’s available in the global Domain Name System is used to confirm who actually sent it and if its content has been modified in some way. The essential purpose of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to prevent the widely spread spam and scam emails, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If a message is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for example, but the signature doesn’t correspond, you will either not receive the message at all, or you will receive it with a warning notification that most likely it is not genuine. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email that fails to pass the signature test. DKIM will also provide you with an extra security layer when you communicate with your business associates, for instance, since they can see that all the e-mails that you exchange are genuine and have not been modified on their way.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting
You’ll be able to get the most out of DomainKeys Identified Mail with each Linux shared hosting that we are offering without the need to do anything in particular, because the required records for using this email validation system are created automatically by our hosting platform when you add a domain to an active account via the Hepsia Control Panel. If the particular domain name uses our name server records, a private key will be generated and stored on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the Domain Name System. If you send out periodic emails to clients or business collaborators, they’ll always be delivered and no unauthorized party will be able to forge your email address and make it look like you have written a particular email message.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated packages come with DKIM enabled by default, so if you opt for a semi-dedicated plan and you add a domain name using our name servers through your Hepsia Control Panel, the records required for the email authentication system will be created automatically – a private cryptographic key on our mail servers for the electronic signature and a TXT record carrying the public key for the Domain Name System. As the DKIM protection is set up for a specific domain, all addresses created using it will have a signature, so you won’t need to worry that the emails that you send may not be delivered to their destination email address or that somebody may spoof any of your addresses and try to scam/spam people. This may be quite important if you rely on e-communication in your business, since your partners and/or customers will be able to distinguish authentic emails from false ones.