Comments on: What on earth are DomainKeys?

By: Nancy H.

Nancy H. — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:11:35 +0000

I sent an email to two friends, and shortly got a response from someone else. There was the “domainkey verified” icon next to the address. I have no idea who the sender is, nor were they on my contact list (I would have expected it to have showed up as spam). Can you offer any explanation? Is there any way to track down the sender, who simply identified him(her)self as “Shadow”?

By: jeffy

jeffy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:31:47 +0000

thank u mr.ryan.i can understood but i am not fully clear about this.i have received a mail with “this sender is domainkeys verified”.what does it mean?if there is any pblm about this to me or my email id.what does it exactly mean whats the purpose of receiving such message.this had came along with the senders email id to my id.whats the purpose of identifying the domain keys

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:54:53 +0000

I have gotten e-mails from my brother for long time, I have many e-mails that this domainkey verified but it will not let me open the file. I read on here that it might have something to do with images, but I don’t know where to go to try and fix this. I have Vista. Can anyone help me with this?

By: Richie

Richie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:09:45 +0000

Can anyone tell me what exactly “g=” means? is it only for domains? or can I use it to lock it down to only one email address?

By: Nancy H,

Nancy H, — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:52:15 +0000

Thank you sooo much for this info Ryan. Enough said yet Yahoo didn’t even begin to explain it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:29:39 +0000

Jessica, the messages in the Sent folder don’t include the DomainKeys headers. Those headers are added by the outgoing mail servers, so they’re added after the message is copied to your Sent folder.

Try emailing yourself sometime. You should see the DomainKey icon next to the message you receive in your Inbox, but not next to the message in your Sent folder.

By: Jessica D

Jessica D — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:20:21 +0000

How do I get my yahoo account email to have the little DomainKeys icon next to it? It’s not showing up when I look at/open my sent emails.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:48:13 +0000

Pete, yes…that’s right. DomainKeys isn’t about helping you to track down scammers. It’s more about knowing if an email that says it’s from your bank really came from your bank.

By: PeteD

PeteD — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:19:36 +0000

Let me see if I’ve got it — DomainKeys verifies that the sender’s stated domain is indeed the domain from which the sender is sending.

It does NOT mean that the sender is a real person, or an honest person, just that he/she is sending from the stated domain.

This would mean that if one wanted to track down the sender, one would be starting with the actual domain, be it in Africa, China or UbiquitousStan.

BTW, if it feels like a Scam, it likely is — Money by certified check or Western Union to EBay or Craig’s List advertisers is money lost… In fact, anyone wanting money is likely to be a Scam, even if it’s your own kids

By: net

net — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:07:53 +0000

there is a man that is trying to get me to send him money and he can come to the u.s. and he suppose to sent me some pictures and they didnt come in. there was just a little figure and its not a piture. he is sweet talking me and getting in my head. i think this is a scam, plz help