DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an authentication system used to prove that an email has been sent by an authorized person or mail server. An electronic signature is added to the header of the email using a private encryption 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 edited in some way. The essential job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to impede the widely spread scam and spam email messages, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank, for example, but the signature does not correspond, you will either not get the email message at all, or you’ll get it with a warning notification that most probably it’s not authentic. It depends on mail service providers what exactly will happen with an email message that fails the signature examination. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also supply you with an additional protection layer when you communicate with your business associates, for example, since they can see that all the emails that you send are legitimate and haven’t been tampered with in the meantime.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Website Hosting
You’ll be able to take advantage of DomainKeys Identified Mail with each Linux cloud website hosting that we are offering without the need to do anything specific, because the necessary records for using this email validation system are created automatically by our hosting platform when you add a domain name to an active account through the Hepsia Control Panel. As long as the particular domain uses our NS records, a private cryptographic key will be issued and kept on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the Domain Name System. In case you send regular messages to customers or business allies, they will always be received and no unauthorized party will be able to spoof your email address and make it look like you have sent a particular message.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our Linux semi-dedicated hosting come with DKIM enabled by default, so in case you choose this type of hosting and you add a domain name using our name servers through your Hepsia Control Panel, the records needed for the email authentication system will be set up automatically – a private key on our email servers for the electronic signature and a TXT record carrying the public key for the global DNS system. Since the DKIM protection is set up for a given domain name, all addresses created using it will have a signature, so you won’t need to worry that the email messages that you send out may not reach their destination address or that somebody may spoof any of your email addresses and try to spam/scam people. This may be really important when you rely on e-communication in your business, since your associates and/or clients will be able to distinguish authentic email messages from counterfeit ones.