Can I authenticate email using dkim txt records for my domain?

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  claritywebdesignstudio · Member · Jul 2, 2011 at 10:28 am

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  I’m going through the setup steps for my google app account, and would like to be able to authenticate emails. Google says I can do that by entered dkim txt records that are generated in my setup process. But when I enter:

  TXT google_domainkey [insert Google’s generated txt record here]

  I get an error message saying that the txt record is limited to 192 characters and mine is too long.

  Is this a step that I don’t need to do with wordpress.com? (I’ve run into a couple of other things that I couldn’t figure out how to do, and then found out that wordpress doesn’t do it–like meta tags).

  Thanks
  Stephanie
  Blog url: http://sageenergy.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 2, 2011 at 9:48 pm

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  You can setup and authenticate your email through Google Apps following this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/

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  claritywebdesignstudio · Member · Jul 2, 2011 at 9:55 pm

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  Thanks, I’ve already followed that support article, and my site is verified with Google. I thought this dkim thing was an additional layer of email security (as per Google’s setup instructions), separate from the google verification that I already performed…?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 2, 2011 at 10:00 pm

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  It’s not something that we directly support, but it’s worth a try. It won’t harm anything.