Steps to Authenticate Your Emails via cPanel
Email authentication helps improve email deliverability and reduces the chances of your messages being marked as spam. cPanel provides tools to configure email authentication records such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your domain.
What is Email Authentication?
Email authentication verifies that emails sent from your domain are legitimate. It helps protect your domain from spoofing, phishing, and unauthorized email usage.
The three main authentication methods are:
- SPF (Sender Policy Framework) – Specifies which mail servers can send emails for your domain.
- DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) – Adds a digital signature to outgoing emails.
- DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) – Defines how receiving servers should handle authentication failures.
Steps to Authenticate Emails in cPanel
Step 1: Login to cPanel from Client Area
First, login to your client area account.
After logging in:
- Go to Services
- Click on My Services
- Select your active hosting service
- Click on Login to cPanel
Step 2: Open Email Deliverability
In the Email section, click Email Deliverability.
Step 3: Review Domain Status
Locate your domain in the list. cPanel will display the status of SPF, DKIM, and other email authentication records.
Step 4: Repair Missing Records
1. If SPF or DKIM records are missing or invalid, click Repair to allow cPanel to generate the recommended DNS records automatically.
Note: You won’t see the “REPAIR” button if your DNS does not point to the MilesWeb server.
2. In case you haven’t set up any email authentication, when you click on the “REPAIR” button, you will see “A DKIM key for ‘ggexample.com’ does not exist on the local server.”
3. After this, click on the “GENERATE LOCAL DKIM KEY” button.
4. Both the “Suggested ‘SPF’ (TXT) Record” and “Suggested ‘DKIM’ (TXT) Record” fields will already contain the system’s recommendations. In case there are no existing records, you can’t edit the recommendations and they can only be accepted).
5. To add records to the DNS zone of the domain, click on the “REPAIR” button.
Step 5: Confirm Authentication Status
Return to the Email Deliverability page and verify that all authentication records show a valid status.
Benefits of Email Authentication
- Improves email delivery rates
- Reduces spam filtering issues
- Protects your domain from spoofing
- Enhances email security
- Builds trust with recipients
Conclusion
Configuring SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records through cPanel helps ensure that your emails are authenticated and delivered successfully. Regularly reviewing your email authentication settings can help maintain a secure and reliable email environment.
