DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a method for confirming the authenticity of an email message by using a digital signature. When DomainKeys Identified Mail is activated for a particular domain, a public cryptographic key is published to the global DNS system and a private one is kept on the email server. When a new message is sent, a signature is issued using the private key and when the message is received, that signature is ‘scanned’ by the POP3/IMAP server using the public key. In this way, the receiver can easily distinguish if the email message is legitimate or if the sender’s address has been spoofed. A mismatch will occur if the content of the email has been altered on its way as well, so DKIM can also be used to make sure that the sent and the received emails are identical and that nothing has been attached or removed. This validation system will boost your email safety, as you can validate the legitimacy of the important email messages that you get and your colleagues can do the same with the emails that you send them. Depending on the particular mail service provider’s adopted policy, a message that fails to pass the check may be removed or may emerge in the receiver’s inbox with a warning notification.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Website Hosting

You will be able to make full use of DomainKeys Identified Mail with each Linux shared website hosting that we’re offering without needing to do anything in particular, since the required records for using this validation system are set up automatically by our website hosting platform when you add a domain name to an active hosting account using the Hepsia Control Panel. As long as the domain in question 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 DNS database. If you send out periodic emails to clients or business partners, they’ll always be received and no unauthorized party will be able to spoof your address and make it seem like you’ve sent a certain email message.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you pick any of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we’re offering, you will be able to use the DKIM feature with any domain that you add to your brand new semi-dedicated server account without any manual setup, as our advanced cloud platform will set up all the compulsory records automatically, as long as the domain uses our name servers. The latter is needed for a TXT resource record to be set up for the domain, since this is how the public key can become available in the global Domain Name System. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so whenever you send a new email, it will carry our platform’s electronic signature. The number of junk messages continues to increase every year and rather often phony email addresses are used, but if you use our hosting services, you and your customers or partners will not need to worry about that.