Tagged “forwarding”
6 articles
DKIM alignment and forwarding
A valid DKIM signature is not the same as DKIM alignment. This guide explains how alignment is evaluated, why DKIM is the one signal that survives forwarding while SPF cannot, and exactly how relays and mailing lists affect it.
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Why email forwarding breaks SPF and DKIM
Email almost never travels in a straight line from sender to recipient. It gets redirected by university and corporate aliases, fanned out by mailing lists, scrubbed by security gateways, and quietly relayed by.
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Mailing lists, DMARC and ARC
Mailing lists are one of the few places where correct, well-behaved email authentication still breaks for reasons that are nobody's fault.
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Aliases, .forward files and DMARC
An alias looks like the most innocent thing in email. You point sales@yourcompany.com at three colleagues, you set up info@ to land in a shared mailbox, a member of staff configures their university address to drop.
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Why forwarding breaks email authentication
Forwarding almost always breaks SPF and sometimes breaks DKIM too. Here is what survives a forwarding hop, why DKIM is the mechanism that carries your authentication through, how DMARC's one-aligned-pass rule copes, and where ARC rescues mailing-list mail.
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What is DKIM and how does it work?
DKIM attaches a cryptographic signature to every message you send, letting receivers verify with a public key in DNS that the mail really came from your domain and was not altered. Learn how signing and verification work step by step, how to read the headers and DNS record, and why a DKIM signature survives forwarding that breaks SPF outright.
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