Email dan DNS for htmx
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Email authentication protects the brand, not the website. SPF, DMARC, DKIM, DNSSEC and CAA are cheap controls that stop spoofing and rogue certificates.
What htmx must have
- SPF record ending in -all with every legitimate sender listed
- DMARC published, moving from p=none to quarantine then reject
- DKIM signing enabled on the mail provider
- DNSSEC signed at the registrar
- CAA record restricting which CAs may issue certificates
- MTA-STS and TLS-RPT for inbound mail
How to fix it
- 1Publish DMARC in monitoring mode first, then tighten after reviewing reports
- 2Add CAA for the CA you actually use, usually letsencrypt.org
htmx context
HTML-over-the-wire library that swaps fragments returned by the server.
Server responses become DOM: sanitise HTML fragments and require CSRF tokens on every hx-post.