DKIM Record Example: How to Read and Fix It

If your emails are landing in spam or failing authentication, DKIM is often the problem. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is one of the core mechanisms used to verify that an email is legitimate and hasn’t been modified. But when it’s misconfigured, it can silently break your email deliverability. In this post, I’ll show you what a DKIM record looks like, how to read it, and how to fix common issues. A DKIM record is a DNS TXT record that contains a public key used to verify email signatures. When an email is sent, it is signed with a private key. The receiving server then looks up the public key in DNS and verifies the signature. If everything matches → the email is trusted If not → it may be rejected or marked as spam DKIM record example A typical DKIM record looks like this: v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqh... Here’s what each part means: v=DKIM1 → DKIM version k=rsa → encryption type p= → public key used for verification The public key is usually long and generated by your email pr