{"id":348,"date":"2021-06-22T03:06:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicemails.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2021-07-24T04:57:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T04:57:27","slug":"do-i-need-to-setup-dkim-for-cold-email-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicemails.com\/2021\/06\/22\/do-i-need-to-setup-dkim-for-cold-email-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to setup DKIM for cold email marketing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When it comes to cold email marketing, we don’t want to leave any stone unturned to ensure that our emails land directly in users inbox folder, not spam, not promotions, but directly in inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DKIM, also known as Domain Keys Identified Email is one of many technical specifications that are used by SPAM filters across the world to understand the legitimacy behind a given email sender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the hood, when DKIM is setup correctly, all emails originating from the server are “digitally signed” using the TXT record. When an email server receives a message, the server will peek inside your email header, look up the signature, validate it with TXT record that serves as reference point, and only when signatures match, allow it to pass through its filters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us walk through an example of an actual email sent using GMAIL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n