Create SPF And DKIM Records For Your Domain Name

Create SPF And DKIM Records For Your Domain Name Make Money Online Queries? Struggling To Get Traffic To Your Blog? Sign Up On (HBB) Forum Now!Create SPF And DKIM Records For Your Domain NameUpdated On 10/02/2016Author : Pradeep KumarTopic : BloggingShort URL : http://hbb.me/1WelF2D CONNECT WITH HBB ON SOCIAL MEDIA Follow @HellBoundBlogIf you are confused why you should create SPF and DKIM Records for your domain name (or email address), then you are not alone. We got plenty of similar questions with the word WHY? In short, this is for avoiding/preventing spam emails. This isnt actually enabled by default, but you can do this via your web hostings cPanel account easily. You can create SPF and DKIM records with the help of TXT record. You can do this via your web hosting server panel or your domain registrar account.An SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record is a DNS record that verifies which mail servers are allowed to send email(s) associated with your domain name.A DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) record is a DNS record that pr events forged emails by adding a digital signature to outgoing message headers.The steps are almost the same, but in some domain registrars like GoDaddy, you cant access/edit the DNS records if you are not hosting with them. If your web hosting server has a cPanel then we have an easy way to fix this. In this article Ill share the simple steps to create DKIM and SPF records for your domain name.DO YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR EMAILS? THEN YOU SHOULD USE GOOGLE APPS:How To Set Up Google Apps Email (Gmail) Address For Your DomainREADIs Your Business Making Any Of These Costly Blogging Blunders?Create SPF And DKIM Records On Your cPanelLog in to your domain names cPanel account, navigate to Email section and click on the icon Authentication.You are now in the Authentication page. In this page you can Enable or Disable SPF and DKIM records for your domain name. You can click on the Enable button for both the records. Thats all.Itll show the status as Enabled (DNS Check Passed) Active (DNS Check Passed) for SPF Record and Enabled Active (DNS Check Passed) for DKIM Record.By this you can do email authentication for your domain name, which helps you to prevent spam emails.Sometimes you would have got an email from email address like name@example.com, but it wasnt actually sent by name@example.com, this is where spammers show their tactics to forge messages. By configuring SPF and DKIM records you can prevent such things to happen for your email address.ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR A GOOD AFFORDABLE WEB HOST WITH CPANEL?Check Out InMotion Hosting With cPanel Access (25% OFF For HBB Readers)If you have any issues with the configuration or steps, do kindly let us know in the comments below, well be happy to help you with that.