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Install and Deploy DKIM in Exchange Server 2003 In this topic, I will introduce how to add DKIM signature to outbound emails in Exchange Server 2003. I will also introduce the usage of DKIM "selector" and "sender rule".
How DKIM works? When an email claims to originate from a certain domain, DKIM provides a mechanism by which the recipient system can determine that the email is authorized to be sent by that domain. The work flow is illustrated as follows:
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How to install DKIM in Exchange Server 2003 To deploy DKIM signature in Exchange Server 2003, you should download the DKIM Installer and install it on your machine.
https://www.emailarchite...oad/eaexchdomainkeys.exe Double click installer file and the installation will be executed automatically.
After the installation is complete, click "DKIM Plugin Manager" from "Windows Start menu"->"All Programs"->"EA DKIM for IIS SMTP and Exchange Server" to begin the configuration.
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Create DKIM for Domain Click "DKIM" in Manager and click "New" to create a new domain DKIM signature. DKIM signature is based on the domain of sender email address, it is unrelated to the name of Exchange server.
You can simply input your sender domain, use default settings for other parameters, finally click "Save" to create your DKIM signature.
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DKIM Parameters Here is the detailed information about DKIM parameters:
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Export DKIM Public Key As I have introduced, because The recipient mail system need to use public key to verify DKIM signature, so we need to deploy DKIM public key to domain DNS server, then recipient server can query DNS server to get public key.
Now open DKIM manager and select your domain and click "Export Public Key":
After the public key is exported, you should deploy it in your domain DNS server.
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Deploy DKIM Public Key to Windows DNS Server If your domain is managed by Windows DNS server, you should deploy DKIM public key like this:
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Add DKIM policy in Windows DNS Server (Optional*) This DNS record is optional. If you do not set DKIM policy, and then "o=~;" is used by default.
The work flow is illustrated as follows:
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Deploy DKIM public key in other DNS server If your domain is managed by "Network Solutions" DNS server, Bind DNS server or other DNS server, you should deploy public key as follows:
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DKIM Test Now you can test DKIM signature by this online tool:
http://www.appmaildev.com/en/dkim If report email shows "DKIM Result: pass", that means your DKIM signature is verified successfully. If there is any error, please have a look at following section.
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DKIM Troubleshooting You can check the problem step by step as follows:
If you have any further problem, please contact
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DKIM Sender Rule Sometimes you need to send an email that sender address not belonged to your server.
In this case, you cannot add DKIM signature to such email, as you don't have permission to deploy DKIM public key to sender domain DNS server. Of course if you don't send email from outside email address, or you don't need to sign DKIM for those emails, you can simply ignore this topic.
You can use "Sender Rule" as follows:
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DKIM Selector To support multiple concurrent public keys of sending domain, the DNS namespace is further subdivided by"selectors". "Selectors" is arbitrary names below the "_domainkey" namespace.
The most important thing is: "selector" indicates your DKIM public key location. For example: if your domain selector is: "s1024", your public key DNS record is "s1024._domainkey.yourdomain"; if your domain selector is: "mta1", your public key DNS record is "mta1._domainkey.yourdomain".
If you have only one Exchange Server, you can ignore the following sections.
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Using a single DKIM selector for the same domain on multiple Exchange Servers If all of your servers are running with EA DKIM, you should deploy the certificate as follows:
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Using multiple DKIM selectors for the same domain on multiple Exchange servers If you don't want to copy the certificate to all servers or you have another server signing the DKIM with the key pair certificate not supported by EA DKIM, you can use different selector for different server.
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