I manage to figure out how to get my DKIMs and SPF from amazon ses, but I don't know how to set it up on namecheap?
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This question appears to be off-topic because it's not a 'programming question,' possibly server admin-related, but I don't imagine Server Fault would want it. Possibly [SU], or [webapps.SE]? – David says reinstate Monica Nov 16 '14 at 19:04
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Login to your namecheap account, then under Host Management > All Host Records
we need to add our DKIM and Domain record Verification Set under the sub-domain settings. The values take this form:
Host Name IP Address/URL Record Type TTL
name1._domainkey value1.dkim.amazonses.com. CNAME (Alias) 1800
name2._domainkey value2.dkim.amazonses.com. CNAME (Alias) 1800
name3._domainkey value3.dkim.amazonses.com. CNAME (Alias) 1800
_amazonses someDomainRecordSet TXT Record 1800
Do take note of the following changes:
Instead of name1._domainkey.test.com
we changed it to name1._domainkey
. Yes, it's intentional. There is no need for the domain test.com at the end of the line.
Also we removed test.com
from _amazonses.test.com
as namecheap's dns will append it upon save.
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Thanks for the link. Yep, it clearly explains this process for me. It only took a couple of minutes for me to get it propagated & listed correctly for my domain. – Vasily Bezruchkin Aug 28 '15 at 05:55
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Is the dot at the end of 'value1.dkim.amazonses.com.' on purpose? Or dit it get truncated and it should say 'value1.dkim.amazonses.com.www.example.com' – BringBackCommodore64 Nov 08 '16 at 22:52
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The instructions in this answer worked for me. However, I needed to delete the domain in the Amazon SES console and start again – Jim Culverwell Jul 15 '17 at 05:58
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If you're using a sub-domain (i.e. app.example.com ) for the _amazonses you will need to add the sub-domain part since namecheap will only add the main domain. So, instead of just _amazonses, put _amazonses.app. This worked for me. – Dan Herman Jan 25 '19 at 17:37
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I tried this as well. The TXT record shows up with nslookup but remains in pending verification on AWS console. What could be wrong? – Elesin Olalekan Fuad Jan 27 '19 at 00:09
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1@ElesinOlalekanFuad My own text record value had an equals sign (=) at the end of it that I missed when I did double-click, copy, and paste. I didn't catch it until my verification failed after three days. Always worth a quick double check. – N. Quest Jun 24 '19 at 21:02