AWeber SPF & DKIM Setup

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AWeber SPF Setup

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AWeber DKIM Setup

Step 1: Verify your email in AWeber

Visit the "Domains and Addresses" page found under your account settings.

Enter your From Address in the "Email Addresses" section and click "Send verification."

Enter your email
You will now see your domain and From address on the account settings page. If your email address still needs to be verified, it will be listed as "pending."

Email Pending

You will receive an email from help@aweber.com asking you to verify your email address.

Visit the "Domains and Addresses" page found under your account settings.
Click the cogwheel icon to the right of your domain to access the DKIM setup instructions. Follow along the instructions to add three CNAME records to setup DKIM.

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Create three new CNAME records with the following information:

Please note: replace example.com with your domain. Depending on your domain provider, you may or may not need to include your domain in the host name. Check our DKIM tweaks list or consult your domain provider for this information.
Type Name Value
CNAME
aweber_key_a._domainkey.example.com
aweber_key_a.send.aweber.com
CNAME
aweber_key_b._domainkey.example.com
aweber_key_b.send.aweber.com
CNAME
aweber_key_c._domainkey.example.com
aweber_key_c.send.aweber.com
Why does AWeber ask you to create three CNAME records while other platforms only ask you to create one? To keep up with best practices, we rotate DKIM keys periodically to make sure they stay secure. Having three records allows us to do this rotation automatically without any action by yourself. Other platforms don't rotate their DKIM keys which can cause lower email deliverability due to compromised security.

Verify your DNS records

Once your records have been published, your domain will appear in AWeber as DKIM authenticated as seen on the Domains & Addresses page in Account Settings. Mail sent from AWeber for that email address will now be signed automatically with DKIM.
Note, if your domain isn't authenticating after setting up your DNS records properly, you may simply need to wait up to 48 hours for servers to see those changes.

Official Documentation

https://help.aweber.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023682313-How-do-I-set-up-DKIM-records-for-my-domain

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