Countering SPAM on your email address
MijnHostingPartner.nl is doing everything possible to prevent SPAM that can be received on your email address. However there are some extra steps you can take yourself to make sure your inbox stays as clean as possible. Let's cover these in this blog post!
Mail is and always has been one of the most widely used ways to communicating over the internet, having your own mail address gives your company or project a professional appearance, your data is not shared and stays on our Dutch servers. And you can easily set up your email address on any desired device and program. Also you get a webmail available that you anywhere via the browser.
DNS records
The first line of defense are the DNS records for securing and validating and validate both sent and received mail. DNS ensures besides the work of the mail also ensures that additional validation can take place on it. Specifically speaking, the SPF record, DKIM and DMARC record take care of this. The values herein determine how secure your sent mail is seen, but also additional validation on the received mail. Read below how DKIM and DMARC are put together.
DKIM and DMARC
If you use DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) to secure secure your emails, there are several benefits you can experience:
Benefits of DKIM:
Increased Email Security: By using DKIM signatures, you can use, you can verify the authenticity of your emails and prevent them from being them from being forged or altered during transmission.
Increased deliverability: Some email providers use DKIM signatures to determine whether or not an email should be marked as spam. be flagged. If you have a DKIM signature, your emails end up in the recipient's inbox.
Increased reputation: When you use DKIM, recipients can be assured that your emails are legitimate. This can contribute to your reputation as a trusted sender.
Benefits of DMARC:
Enhanced email security: DMARC combines DKIM and SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and therefore provides an additional layer of security to validate the sender identity to validate and establish it.
More control over email sending: DMARC allows you to to determine what to do with emails that have not been DKIM or SPF verified. You can choose to reject these emails, redirect them to a specific folder or accept them but mark them as suspicious. By default we recommend to have the quarantine policy active, rejecting them right away can result in missed mail.
Enhanced reporting: DMARC provides detailed reporting on emails sent from your domain. This can help you identify and resolve problems with your email infrastructure and further improve email security.
By implementing DKIM and DMARC, you can reduce the risk of spam, phishing and other forms of e-mail fraud and improve the security and reputation reputation of your email transmission.
DMARC is active by default when you create an email address at MijnHostingPartner.nl, you will have to activate the DKIM certificate yourself. activate it yourself. This can be done with a slider under your email DNS records. See the following steps how you can easily activate it:
https://www.mijnhostingpartner.nl/client/knowledgebase/e-mail/email-dns-controleren-en-herstellen/
SPAM Filtering
By default, an extended SPAM filter is already active which detects and stops harmful content. Suspicious messages are marked with the marking MHP-SPAM-LOW or MHP-SPAM-MED. A HIGH filter is also active, but these messages are stopped for you right away. These are very harmful messages. If you still see a suspicious message that is not marked by the filtering, then mark it immediately, so the filtering is also trained to recognize newer ways and forms better.
Always keep an eye out for suspicious mail
Even with all these measures against SPAM, unfortunately no filter or method 100% active to stop everything, legitimate mails that further pass the checks but have bad intentions are also a possibility. possibility. Always stay on your guard when sending and receiving email. of email. Just as you are with logging into your bank account, logging into logging into mygovernment and receiving strange WhatsApp messages. The methods and ways of scams will unfortunately always continue to evolving, and so this will always be an ongoing battle. Therefore, stay on vigilant, and also especially keep track of developments in this area.
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