DKIM, which is short for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which impedes email headers from being spoofed and email content from being tampered with. This is achieved by adding an e-signature to every email message sent from an address under a certain domain name. The signature is published based on a private encryption key that is available on the SMTP server and it can be verified by using a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. In this way, any message with modified content or a spoofed sender can be spotted by email service providers. This technology will enhance your web safety greatly and you will know for sure that any e-mail message sent from a business ally, a bank, etc., is a legitimate one. When you send out messages, the recipient will also be sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that appears to be forged may either be marked as such or may never appear in the recipient’s mailbox, based on how the given provider has decided to cope with such email messages.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Hosting
When you get any of the Linux cloud hosting packages that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be enabled as standard for any domain name that you register under your shared account, so you will not have to set up any records or to enable anything manually. When a domain is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS records (so that the emails associated with this domain name will be handled by our cloud platform), a private cryptographic key will be issued momentarily on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the Domain Name System. All email addresses created with this domain name will be protected by DKIM, so if you send out email messages such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the recipients will know that they are authentic, as the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature makes it impossible for unauthorized people to spoof your email addresses.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our Linux semi-dedicated packages come with DomainKeys Identified Mail enabled by default, so if you opt for a semi-dedicated server package and you add a domain using our name servers via your Hepsia Control Panel, the records needed for the validation system will be set up automatically – a private key on our mail servers for the electronic signature and a TXT record carrying the public key for the global DNS system. As the protection is set up for a specific domain, all addresses created with it will have a signature, so you won’t have to worry that the messages that you send out may not be delivered to their target address or that somebody may fake any of your email addresses and try to scam/spam people. This may be quite essential when you use e-communication in your business, since your associates and/or customers will be able to distinguish authentic emails from fake ones.