I'm setting up Email Authentication and I'm seeing conflicting info on the format.
Some say that the value should be surrounded in " "
But other services have told me to leave out the surrounding "
Does it just vary by ESP (email service provider)?
The proper format for a DKIM type TXT value in a DNS Zone record
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You've got something wrong. The dkim-checker checks DKIM-DNS records, not DKIM signatures. Your signature looks pretty good (except the omitted values).
the answer is:
in Host you put selector._domainkey.example.com
in TXT Value you put what you see in the picture without brackets
This is for a 1024 rsa key
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The formatting of
TXTrecord data doesn't really have to do with Email. Ie, it doesn't have to do with the Email Service Provider, rather the DNS server software / DNS Service provider if anything.TXTrecords can have multiple string values.In the standardized master file format, if you put quotation marks around something that becomes a single string even if there are spaces. If you leave out the quotation marks each "word" is a string of its own.
For DKIM
TXTrecords, if there are multiple string values these are simply concatenated.This means that:
"foo bar"means foo barfoo baris the same as"foo" "bar"and means foobarFor a DKIM record specifically there isn't really significant whitespace, so either is ok in that respect but be careful with
;as semicolon is the comment character in the master file format.Now, this is all regarding the standardized master file format, if you instead talk about something like a form field in a web UI of a DNS service provider, then you'll really have to consult their documentation as their UI may or may not accept its input based on the above.