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Setting up a Mail Sending Server with Haraka

#haraka #email

Installation 

npm install -g Haraka
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Initialization 

haraka -i /etc/haraka
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DKIM Configuration 

cd /etc/haraka/dkim sh dkim_key_gen.sh miantiao.me
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DNS Configuration

  1. SPF Related:

Add a TXT record.

If it's a top-level domain, leave the hostname empty or use @. If it's a subdomain, use mail as the hostname (modify according to your subdomain). Value: v=spf1 ip4:49.74.15.209 ip4:192.168.199.219 ~all

Test if SPF is deployed successfully: http://www.openspf.org/Why?show-form=1

  1. DKIM Related:

Add a TXT record.

If it's a top-level domain, use mail._domainkey as the hostname. If it's a subdomain, use mail._domainkey.mail (change the second domain to your subdomain).

Value:

v=DKIM1;p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAoWeQnE0B4ALbs9ih9UuG8xTo0pWo8u25487bNF8gqxbl6Ca+LNFvgHc6ADdObUfIEp1LD6C/6Ufq+mVab2pUjYAKQOxxNj20nHzRsHbElwkUaGD2gus5d+HcRYHRCQXh1bGuWXvhh9v4Bk1A6I8mWIl0SnN+sm0VUAOxwWUmlEWHVt7EmxaqxmgstzIdINwgxLW0TU+C+CgUEYe75BN42JsbYvfB2pYKMh9SS57aPDXgghUKX+SdMJL3ztbhfUujr3VhWg+cqyCIj3Yku9LKzxRRtnpaYJ1alv510Z1exUzcWRjXXJQMnND3a/9wkXpHi8wIYNfj4WqAyzf74MrhRQIDAQAB”
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Adding Users 

cd /etc/haraka echo 'auth/flat_file' >> plugins vim auth_flat_file.ini # Change methods to: # methods=LOGIN
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In the file above, the left side in the [users] section is the account and the right side is the password (you can customize it):

[users] matt=test
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Starting Haraka 

haraka -c /etc/haraka
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Testing 

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- import smtplib from email.mime.text import MIMEText mailto_list=['test@qq.com'] # Recipient address mail_host="127.0.0.1" # Server mail_user="matt" # Username mail_pass="test" # Password mail_postfix="miantiao.me" # Sender's domain def send_mail(to_list,sub,content): me="Haraka"+"<"+mail_user+"@"+mail_postfix+">" msg = MIMEText(content,_subtype='plain',_charset='utf-8') msg['Subject'] = sub msg['From'] = me msg['To'] = ";".join(to_list) try: server = smtplib.SMTP() server.connect(mail_host) server.login(mail_user,mail_pass) server.sendmail(me, to_list, msg.as_string()) server.close() return True except Exception, e: print str(e) return False if __name__ == ' __main__': for mail in mailto_list: if send_mail([mail],"Test Email Subject","""This is a test email"""): print "Sent successfully" else: print "Failed to send"
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Email server health test:

http://www.mail-tester.com/

Check IP reputation:

http://anti-spam.org.cn/

http://www.justspam.org/check-an-ip

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