Long DKIM Key

How to enter your DKIM key when TXT entries are limited to 255 characters?

Ivan Kovachev avatar
Written by Ivan Kovachev
Updated over a week ago

Some DNS editors can receive errors when DKIM keys or other TXT entries are longer than 255 characters.

To resolve this issue, you can enter your DKIM key by breaking it up into pieces on a single TXT entry.

For example, if your DKIM key is:

"v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabc"

You can enter it as:

"v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabc"


You can divide them at arbitrary places. The double quote enclosed parts should be separated by a single space character, not a newline.


You can create a free OnDMARC account to test your DKIM configuration.

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