DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a validation system used to certify that an e-mail has been sent by an authenticated person or server. An e-signature is attached to the header of the email by using a private encryption key. When the email message is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to verify who exactly sent it and if the content has been changed in some way. The primary job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to hinder the widespread spam and scam 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 or financial institution, 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 alert that most probably it is not authentic. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also supply you with an extra security layer when you communicate with your business partners, for example, since they can see that all the email messages that you send are authentic and have not been meddled with in the meantime.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting
You’ll be able to take full advantage of DomainKeys Identified Mail with each Linux shared hosting that we offer without doing anything in particular, because the obligatory records for using this authentication system are created automatically by our website hosting platform when you add a domain to an active hosting account using the Hepsia Control Panel. If the specific domain name uses our NS records, a private encryption key will be created and kept on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the global DNS database. If you send regular messages to customers or business collaborators, they’ll always be received and no unsolicited person will be able to spoof your email address and make it seem like you have composed a certain email message.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers
The DomainKeys Identified Mail protection service is offered by default with any domain name that is registered through a semi-dedicated server account with our company. It should also use our name servers, so that its DNS records are managed by our system. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT record to be set up, which is in fact the public cryptographic key that verifies if a certain message is legitimate or not. This record is set up when a domain is added to an account through the Hepsia Control Panel and at the same time, a private key is generated on our mail servers. If you use our web and email hosting services, your messages will always reach their target destination and you won’t need to worry about unauthorized persons spoofing your email addresses for scamming or spamming purposes, which is something rather important if you use email messages to communicate with your business associates.