{"id":517,"date":"2017-03-11T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T18:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2017-03-11T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T18:44:36","slug":"adding-dkim-records-to-kerio-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/11\/adding-dkim-records-to-kerio-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding DKIM records to Kerio Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to implement DKIM (signed email) to your Kerio Connect setup, here’s the easy way.<\/p>\n

Start by reading these links<\/p>\n

Kerio link 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Kerio link 2<\/a><\/p>\n

The following setup is for Kerio Connect 9.x, and Windows Server 201X DNS server<\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure your email server is properly connected to a good public DNS server, such as Google (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.)<\/li>\n
  2. Go to Kerio Connect, Configuration, Domains.<\/li>\n
  3. Click SHOW PUBLIC KEY and copy it.<\/li>\n
  4. paste it into notepad.\u00a0 We’ll need to rework it a bit to be compatible with Windows DNS.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Windows DNS limits the length of one single string of characters, so we’ll need to split it into several lines.<\/li>\n
  5. Reformat it like this.\u00a0 Break it into even lines, around 100 characters each.\u00a0 The exact length doesn’t matter.\u00a0 Just do it evenly, hit enter at each breakpoint.<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0NOTE:\u00a0 make SURE there is a SPACE between the semicolon and the p\n
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    1. as in v=DKIM1; p=xxxx<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    2. example properly reformatted\"\"<\/li>\n
    3. Copy this reformatted string<\/li>\n
    4. Go to the domain in your Windows DNS server.\u00a0 For example, if your domain is mydomain.com go to that domain in the DNS Server management console.<\/li>\n
    5. right click, other records, add TXT record<\/li>\n
    6. Record name is:\u00a0 mail._domainkey<\/li>\n
    7. after you enter that, you will see the FQDN look like this:\n
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      1. mail._domainkey.mydomain.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      2. Paste the string from #7 above into the text box, as-is.<\/li>\n
      3. Hit ok and save that change.<\/li>\n
      4. repeat this for any other domain.\u00a0 On Kerio Connect, all the domains on the one email server use the exact same DKIM keys.<\/li>\n
      5. Now we are going to test the DKIM record to make sure it can be properly read.\n
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        1. go to https:\/\/mxtoolbox.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n
        2. type in your domain<\/li>\n
        3. hit check MX<\/li>\n
        4. when that completes (successfully), change the drop down to “DKIM Lookup”\n
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          1. type in your full DKIM string:<\/li>\n
          2. mail._domainkey.mydomain.com.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
          3. Run the DKIM Lookup<\/li>\n
          4. You should see a successful test, and your report should look just like this:\"\"<\/li>\n
          5. if it doesn’t look like this, then you did something wrong with your TXT record creation, or you forgot to put the entire DKIM key in the lookup.<\/li>\n
          6. Since all is well, proceed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
          7. next, go back to Kerio Connect.<\/li>\n
          8. while still on the domain, check the checkbox to enable DKIM\"\"<\/li>\n
          9. If the DNS on your email server is setup properly, and it is communicating properly to your DNS server, you should see the box above.\n
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            1. If you see a message “DKIM public key not found in public DNS”<\/li>\n
            2. try restarting KMS<\/li>\n
            3. Try going to a command prompt and ipconfig \/flushdns<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
            4. Presuming that you do see the proper message in #18 above, we now need to do a test email to verify everything is working.<\/li>\n
            5. Go to http:\/\/www.appmaildev.com\/en\/dkim<\/a><\/li>\n
            6. click next step<\/li>\n
            7. the site will generate an email address<\/li>\n
            8. copy this email address and send a blank email to that address FROM AN EMAIL ACCOUNT ON THE DOMAIN you setup with DKIM above.<\/li>\n
            9. Wait for the site to receive the email and generate it’s report (a few seconds)<\/li>\n
            10. you should see DKIM = PASS<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

               <\/p>\n

              While you’re at it, don’t forget to create SPF and DMARC records for your domain to cover all the bases.<\/p>\n

               <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              If you want to implement DKIM (signed email) to your Kerio Connect setup, here’s the easy way. Start by reading these links Kerio link 1 Kerio link 2 The following setup is for Kerio Connect 9.x, and Windows Server 201X DNS server Make sure your email server is properly connected to a good public DNS server, such as Google (8.8.8.8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[20,18,8],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-bits","category-windows-server","tag-email","tag-email-server","tag-microsoft-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}