Enabling DKIM signing for your domains can help you keep your email content intact throughout the delivery process, barring threat actors from accessing and altering your emails. This helps preserve your identity and eradicate spam and phishing attacks
Creating DKIM Record for EmailOctopus
EmailOctopus uses Amazon SES as their email system
- Login to your AWS dashboard
- Scroll down to Verified Identities
- Click on Create Identity
- If you scroll down on this page, you should be able to see the DKIM CNAME records that you need to publish
Publishing your DKIM public key for EmailOctopus
After you get your public key from EmailOctopus:
- Login to your DNS provider’s management console as the admin
- Navigate to the DNS records section
- Create CNAME records
- Copy and paste the hostnames and values
- Save changes to your record and wait for 48-72 hours for your DNS to process these changes
Lookup and validate the published DKIM DNS record using our free DKIM record lookup tool. Enable DMARC for your domains to protect against spoofing. Sign up for a DMARC trial today!
