Setting up Mail BIMI Record
BIMI stands for Brand Indicators for Message Identification. That is the logo that appears on gmail when you receive a mail from a known brand.
How to Create a BIMI Record
- SVG Logo Image
We need an image of your logo in SVG Format.
- Upload to your website
Now that you have your logo image, upload it to your site prefferably to the root directory. For example: https://your-domain.com/logo.svg
- DNS, TEXT Record
We are going to create a BIMI Text DNS Record with the information of your logo.
Go to your DNS Provider and enter the following values to create the BIMI Record. Replace your-domain.com with your domain and location of your logo.svg. vstands for version and l is an L lowercase and stands for location.
type: TXT
hostname: default._bimi.your-domain.com
value: "v=BIMI1;l=https://your-domain.com/logo.svg"
For this to work you need a DMARC Record with the p set to quarantine similar to the following example.
v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:user@your-domain.com; pct=50;"
I will reference HERE how to setup DMARC in the future.