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RFC 8553

Authors:

E. Allman
J. Fenton
M. Delany
J. Levine

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IETF

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dkim (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5617

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Abstract

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) defines a domain-levelauthentication framework for email to permit verification of thesource and contents of messages. This document specifies an adjunctmechanism to aid in assessing messages that do not contain a DKIMsignature for the domain used in the author's address. It defines arecord that can advertise whether a domain signs its outgoing mail aswell as how other hosts can access that record. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.