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dkim
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication method designed to detect forged sender addresses in emails (email spoofing), a technique often used in phishing and email spam.
DKIM allows the receiver to check that an email claimed to have come from a specific domain was indeed authorized by the owner of that domain. It achieves this by affixing a digital signature, linked to a domain name, to each outgoing email message. The recipient system can verify this by looking up the sender's public key published in the DNS. A valid signature also guarantees that some parts of the email (possibly including attachments) have not been modified since the signature was affixed. Usually, DKIM signatures are not visible to end-users, and are affixed or verified by the infrastructure rather than the message's authors and recipients.
DKIM is now an "Internet standard". It is defined in RFC 6376, dated September 2011; with updates in RFC 8301 and RFC 8463.
If you’re a brave soul who’s feeling adventurous and about to embark on setting up your own mail server on your DiskStation, this is a very helpful article that explains SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
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