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Email Masking & Custom Domains

Email Masking & Custom Domains

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Written by Yolanda He
Updated over 2 weeks ago

In Aboard, you can ensure your automated email tasks look as if they're being sent from your organization's domain. Here's a step-by-step on how to set it up:

Step by Step

  1. Login to Aboard, click Settings and head over to Integrations


2. Scroll to the bottom and enter your domain where it says Custom Domain and then click Get DNS


3. You should then receive three records and a subdomain that look like this:


4. Login to your domain host (ex: Cloudflare)

5. Add the first CNAME record

  • Type: CNAME

  • Name: The text after Host (In this example it's s1._domainkey.yourdomain.com)

  • Target: The text after Data (In this example it's s1.domainkey.u17560193.wl194.sendgrid.net)

  • Proxy Status: DNS only

  • Save the record

6. Repeat step 5 for the other 2 records

7. Wait 1-2 hours, then in Aboard, click Verify DNS


8. If done correctly, after verification, it should look like this:

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