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Email authentication: DKIM

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Email authentication: DKIM

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Hello everyone, welcome back. Now that you are aware of SPF, let's talk about the other important e-mail authentication protocol which is DKIM. DKIM stands for Domain Keys Identified Mail. It helps protect your domain against spoofing by authenticating your e-mail with a DKIM signature. You need to set up DKIM by generating a public DKIM key and adding it to your domain. When receiving servers get your public DKIM key, they use it to read the DKIM signature and authenticate e-mail. So in simple terms, SPF verifies authorized IP addresses sending emails for a domain, while DKIM uses digital signatures to verify e-mail content and domain authentication, ensuring emails have not been tampered with. Now let's understand how DKIM works. So for example, when you send an e-mail, your outgoing mail server generates a digital signature based on the message content and headers. This signature is attached to the email's header. The recipient's mail server looks up your DKIM public key in your…

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