Getting Exchange to do DKIM

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Having read Jeff's blog post about Email and DKIM, I'm thinking it might be good to DKIM all mail coming out of our Exchange 2003 servers. Whats a good way of going about that?

Stefan Profanter · Answer 1 · 2017-04-05T09:40:34.443

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I wrote an open source DKIM signing module for Exchange 2007, 2010, 2012, and 2016: https://github.com/Pro/dkim-exchange

We are using it now for a few months and didn't have any problems yet.

edited Apr 05 '17 at 09:40

answered Apr 08 '13 at 19:10

Stefan Profanter

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '10 at 14:03

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No version of Exchange supports DKIM. Microsoft has put their support behind SPF/SenderID instead. There are a couple third-party products that can be added to Exchange to do DKIM (like this, for instance) but I personally wouldn't run that stuff on any of my Exchange servers. The more common approach is to have another server (or servers) sitting between Exchange and the internet running a more secure MTA that can do the DKIM for you.

answered Apr 23 '10 at 14:03

icky3000

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While I agree with you on your DKIM statements, I disagree with your insinuation that Exchange's MTA isn't secure. It's not the MTA that's insecure it's the admins who don't configure Exchange correctly that makes it insecure. – joeqwerty Apr 23 '10 at 14:50
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Too bad about Microsoft's attitude on this, as things like SPF and DKIM are complementary, not in opposition. Quite simply, having both lowers the spam score more than having just one of them on all the test systems I've seen so far, as well as the production spam filters I've looked at. – John Gardeniers Apr 28 '10 at 12:17
@joequerty Why does microsoft recommend the use of edge transport server? – 93196.93 Apr 10 '12 at 10:22

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 17:10

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I have an open source version of a DKIM signing transport agent for Microsoft Exchange hosted on BitBucket here. It only works on Exchange 2007 at the moment, although it could easily be adapted to work on later versions. Unfortunately 2003 can't be helped because there is no ability to write your own transport agents on it.

answered Sep 04 '12 at 17:10

Tory Netherton

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UPDATE: I highly recommend using the project mentioned by Probot (https://github.com/Pro/dkim-exchange) instead of that little one I made. – Tory Netherton Jul 02 '14 at 19:29

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 19 '14 at 08:31

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tried this one (EA DomainKeys/DKIM for Exchange Server and IIS SMTP Service), its working though it is not free.

answered Jan 19 '14 at 08:31

Daniel Chan

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Getting Exchange to do DKIM

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