# Getting the DKIM to work with Cloudflare
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752 "2017-10-25T11:35:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@rohitink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rohitink)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/1 "2017-10-25T11:35:54Z")
Hello,
I have successfully installed Discourse.
My Primary site is hosted on a cPanel VPS somewhere else.
While my [forum.mysite.com](http://forum.mysite.com) is hosted on a Linode Cloud VPS.
And my DNS is managed by CloudFlare.
I have successfully configured the DMARC & SPF. But I don’t know how to get the public key to add in DKIM txt record. Where do I get this public key from?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/2 "2017-10-25T11:38:45Z")
Your mail delivery service should tell you.
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### Author:  [@rohitink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rohitink)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/3 "2017-10-25T11:46:02Z")
Yes. I am confused. Who will be my Mail delivery service here?
SMTP Details I have provided are those of my VPS’ cPanel. So should i fetch the DKIM public key from there?
But there is no subdomain [forum.mysite.com](http://forum.mysite.com) in my cPanel. Will that be a problem?
As **`forum`** is an A record in my cloudflare pointing to linode’s IP
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/4 "2017-10-25T11:52:29Z")
Got should Google dkim for more information.
By default discourse will send from the discourse host name. You can edit a line near the end of app.yml to change it.
If your cpanel will allow remote hosts to deliver mail from a remote ip with a username and password it might work. Discourse doesn’t really care if your can dkim or spf records ;it’s just a way to see that your mail isn’t classified as spam.
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### Author:  [@rohitink](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rohitink)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/5 "2017-10-25T11:56:54Z")
Yes, the cPanel allows sending of emails from different servers. The emails are being sent successfully.
Everything is correctly configured now. SPF, DMARC, etc.
Only DKIM keys seem to be a problem. I did google a lot. But its confusing.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/6 "2019-12-06T00:25:51Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/7 "2023-09-14T09:31:29Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-the-dkim-to-work-with-cloudflare/72752/8 "2023-09-14T09:50:39Z")