{"id":169353,"date":"2025-06-16T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/glossary\/domainkeys-identified-mail-dkim"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:05:38","slug":"domainkeys-identified-mail-dkim","status":"publish","type":"concepts","link":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/glossary\/domainkeys-identified-mail-dkim","title":{"rendered":"DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DKIM is an email security standard that helps confirm that an email really comes from where it says it does and wasn&#8217;t tampered with along the way. It works by adding a digital signature to the email&#8217;s header, which the recipient&#8217;s mail server can verify.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When a company sends an email, DKIM adds a unique digital signature to the message. This signature is based on a private key tied to the company&#8217;s domain. The receiving mail server uses a matching public key published in the sender&#8217;s DNS records to confirm the message is genuine and unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>This process helps prevent email spoofing and phishing, which are common risks in digital communication. For SaaS and marketing teams, DKIM plays a critical role in <a href=\"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/blog\/what-is-email-deliverability\" data-type=\"blog\" data-id=\"77553\">improving email deliverability<\/a>, protecting your domain, and building trust with recipients. Whether you&#8217;re sending newsletters, onboarding emails, or promotions, DKIM helps ensure your message gets to the inbox and stays believable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DKIM adds a digital signature to the email&#8217;s header, which the recipient&#8217;s mail server can verify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cat_topic":[],"cat_glossary":[],"class_list":["post-169353","concepts","type-concepts","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts\/169353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/concepts"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts\/169353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_topic?post=169353"},{"taxonomy":"cat_glossary","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_glossary?post=169353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}