公开(公告)号：EP3799401A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-31

申请号：EP20188506.8

申请日：2020-07-30

Applicant: Shopify Inc.

Inventor： Zahed, Aref

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A company may authorize a 3 rd party to send emails on behalf of the company's domain. The emails are sent by the 3 rd party, but the "From" portion of the email header is populated with the company's email address/domain. Methods are disclosed that, in some embodiments, enable email authentication (e.g. SPF record checks and/or DKIM verification) for emails sent by the 3 rd party on behalf of a company's domain. In some embodiments, a trusted entity is enlisted to communicate with the 3 rd party and the company. The trusted entity has the proper permissions to request changes in the DNS records of the company. The trusted entity receives the request from the 3 rd party to add email authentication information to the DNS record. The trusted entity confirms that the 3 rd party is authorized by the company and then adds the information to the DNS record.