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--- email [2019/08/25 09:05] – neil
+++ email [2019/09/02 08:12] – neil
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 =====Securing your email =====
-It is vital to secure your email.
+If you use email — and, let's face it, how many lawyers do not? — it is vital that you secure it.
-You are probably communicating a lot of sensitive information by email, and email is likely to be the system used to reset passwords on other accounts.
+You are probably communicating a lot of sensitive information by email, and email is likely to be the system used to reset passwords on other accounts. At the very least, secure your email. However, you should also consider if email is the right tool at all – there are [[email_alternatives|alternatives]] which may offer security more appropriate to the risk.
 If your email account gets compromised, it could be very difficult to unpick it.
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 DKIM — DomainKeys Identified Mail — is a mechanism for signing and verifying messages.
-As with [[#spf|SPF]], you need to add a text record to your domain's DNS, but you also need to make changes to your mail server's configuration.
+As with [[#spf|SPF]], you need to add a text record to your domain's DNS, but, for DKIM, you also need to make changes to your mail server's configuration.
 What you will need to do will depend on your email server or service provider, so either check the manual or help pages, or get someone who knows what they are doing to help.