What is email authentication (SPF, Sender ID and DomainKeys/DKIM) and how do I set it up?
When sending an email we let you set your own “from address” so that email will appear to be from that address. Instead of coming from name@createsend.com, it might come from name@abcwidgets.com. Because of the way email was originally built, it’s tough to prove if an email is actually coming from the person who claims to be sending it. Email authentication fixes this by letting you add some simple information to your domain name’s DNS records that says who’s allowed to send email on your behalf. Without getting into too much of the boring, technical details, there are two main authentication standards you should support called Sender ID and DomainKeys/DKIM. What is important is that different ISP’s use one or a combination of both so to get the best results we’ve made it as easy as possible to support both standards. It only takes a few minutes to set up and it’s something we recommend doing for every “from email address” domain you use. Please note: To authenticate a domain, you do n
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