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<indicator name="Faults">[[File:Menu-email.svg\|link=:Category:Email\|30px\|Back up to the Email Category]]</indicator> Support staff can help in adding DKIM signing for domains we host. ~~'''WORK IN PROGRESS~~ ~~'''~~ ~~'''Currently being trialled by staff, not available to customers yet'''~~ ~~'''Examples and confg is likely to change before customers are able to use DKIM~~ ~~'''~~ == Important: == As with SPF, if you use DKIM/DMARC then you will also want to make sure that all email that you send from your domain is sent through email servers that will sign Also see [[SPF Record]] DKIM is one of many methods which tries to protect email senders and recipients from spoofing/spam. and to proove that an email hasn't been tampered with. A domain owner can add DNS records which will publish a public key in a specially formatted Even if messages are just signed, then this can help them not to be marked as spam by the recipient. This can help prevent messages that our customers send to gmail/outlook being put in to spam folders. ====Long txt records?==== If you are adding your own txt records and they are over 256 characters long, see [[Domains:DNS_Types]] for details on how to 'split' the record in to separate chunks. == Signing by smtp.aa.net.uk == =DMARC= This is just a brief overview of ~~DKIM~~DMARC, you can read more about DKIM on other place or RFC7489 Adding a DMARC DNS record is optional, but can be beneficial. If you add DMARC records then you also need to make sure that all the email you send is being sent through smtp relays which will sign your messages. ie, '''all your email for your domain would want to be sent through smtp.aa.net.uk''' There are various online generators for creating a dmarc record, but the contents of the record will cover the following basic settings: