DKIM is a means of authentication using cryptographic techniques designed to combat email spoofing. A DKIM-enabled mail server will generate a hash of the email contents that it wants to sign, use its private key to encrypt it, and sign the outbound message with it. Remote servers receiving email from the DKIM-enabled mail server will […]

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records are intended to fight SPAM and email spoofing. These mechanisms don’t analyse content of the message in search of malicious code, spam-like content, or content that would be used in a phishing attempt. Other dedicated tools should be used to detect viruses & malicious scripts or to flag messages as spam-like or scam-like based on […]