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Installing DomainKeys and SPF Records

Posted by Vanessa | Posted in Misc | Posted on December 31, 2009

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DomainKeys (DKIM) and SPF records are becoming a common, and annoying, demand among email providers, mainly Yahoo and Hotmail. In short, both are methods of email authentication designed to verify email integrity, by linking a sender to a specific server or hostname. In other words, DomainKeys and SPF records specify what servers can send email on behalf of a domain name.

You’ll want DomainKeys and SPF records if your users have trouble sending email to certain providers, or they are having issues with spoofed (forged) email. CPanel currently allows two easy ways for you or your users to set up email verification. This is supported at least from cPanel 11.18 onward.