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DKIM

DomainKeys Identified Mail, an email authentication method that signs messages with a domain key.

Why it matters

DKIM can help show whether a message was altered and whether a signing domain is present.

Example pattern

Authentication-Results includes dkim=pass or dkim=fail.

How CheckLink can help

CheckLink can display DKIM results found in pasted headers without sending the header text to the server.

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