By cjfl0res
Hi! Newbie here,
I followed this tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-iredmail-on-centos-6-3-x64
but all mails I sent using john@mydomain.com are being marked as spam. Then I realized I forgot to do one step, that is to add a SPF Record containing DKIM key in the Droplet. But the tutorial doesn’t go too much detail on how to do this.
I checked iRedMail.tips and found these lines:
DNS record for DKIM support:
; key#1, domain dealwithin.com, /var/lib/dkim/dealwithin.com.pem dkim._domainkey.dealwithin.com. 3600 TXT ( “v=DKIM1; p=” “MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDSiChwVXgufTwQyzTi8ICof3X8” “FIB3QS1er/HlMkiWG5jAuc6ByAd01Zcmc6crH15uukTu8a/sH0brnuMAwY6XouMc” “ENncPQOrCGUf5m529K7Rt/jgnOf7stfF0Z0XvN99BkcFaA6oAw5yzQ5rEB2k/jih” “8IroFqS7R2yJLVbUhwIDAQAB”)
i tried imitating the name field of the one in the tutorial “dkim_domainkey” and copy & pasted these:
“v=DKIM1; p=” “MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDSiChwVXgufTwQyzTi8ICof3X8” “FIB3QS1er/HlMkiWG5jAuc6ByAd01Zcmc6crH15uukTu8a/sH0brnuMAwY6XouMc” “ENncPQOrCGUf5m529K7Rt/jgnOf7stfF0Z0XvN99BkcFaA6oAw5yzQ5rEB2k/jih” “8IroFqS7R2yJLVbUhwIDAQAB”
to the text field. Since I can’t send mail anymore I assume that I did it incorrectly. How should I input the DKIM key? TIA
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I have 2 files: mail.private and mail.txt The mail.txt file contains the key to insert DNS record (TXT). Where can I put the file mail.private (which contains the DKIM key)?
Thank you.
[UPDATE] I’ve found this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-dkim-with-postfix-on-debian-wheezy
Thank you.
Start by first adding an SPF record <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-an-spf-record-to-prevent-spoofing-improve-e-mail-reliability”>How To use an SPF Record to Prevent Spoofing & Improve E-mail Reliability</a>.
<blockquote>that is to add a SPF Record containing DKIM key in the Droplet. But the tutorial doesn’t go too much detail on how to do this.</blockquote> <br>An SPF record is not the same as a DKIM key. They are two different records. <br> <br>An SPF record is usually enough however if that doesn’t fix emails going to spam you might want to look into adding a DKIM key.
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