CPANEL Email Security (DKIM/SPF/DMARC)

Below is a guide on how to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records from your cPanel control panel.

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DKIM

1. Login to your cPanel account 
2. Go to Email Deliverability, located in the Email section:
3. Click on the Manage button for the domain you wish to enable the DKIM record for.
4. If you want to set a default DKIM record, scroll down to Suggested DKIM Record and click on the Install button.

SPF

1. Login to your cPanel account 
2. Go to Email Deliverability, located in the Email section:
3. Click on the Manage button for the domain you wish to enable the SPF record for.
4. If you want to set a default SPF record, scroll down to Suggested SPF Record and click on the Customise button:
5. Scroll down to Additional settings section and include two new entries by clicking on Add A new “+include” item.
6. Click on Install a customised SPF record:

DMARC

1. Login to your cPanel account 
2. Go to Zone Editor, located in the Domains section.
3. Click the Manage button on the domain you wish to add the record in.

Click the Add Record button, and add the following type of record:
Type: TXT
Host: _dmarc
Value: v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:<example@example.com>; ruf=mailto:<user@example.com>;
TTL: 3600 (1 hour)

In the above example, the DMARC record is set to quarantine all non-aligned messages, you can adjust p to “reject” to reject non-aligned emails or “none” which will have no effect. The record will also send a report to the email address specified.