CF, SmarterMail, and DKIM

[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

Hey all,

I am using SmarterMail to deliver my email from CF. However, emails that are generated don't seem to have the DKIM signing attached. I notice that they do if I send an email from my email program (Eudora), which connects directly to SmarterMail when sending.

Currently, I have the "Spool mail messages for delivery" checkbox checked, as sometimes there are thousands of emails generated and I don't want the page to wait. Is this possibly why the DKIM signing is being bypassed?

Anyone else bump into this problem?

Thanks,

Mik




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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

> I am using SmarterMail to deliver my email from CF. However,
> emails that are generated don't seem to have the DKIM signing
> attached.

Do you have a username and password entered into the "Mail" settings
in the ColdFusion administrator for the connection to your mail
server?


-Justin

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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

No. Will that fix it?

Mik

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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

I think it might, as I think a requirement is you need to authenticate, so
if you just have smartermail set to allow open relay from your web server,
there is no authentication involved.

give it a try.

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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

In the past, this worked for me.

I use a SmarterMail 12 / CF 9 combination too.



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From: "Russ Michaels" <ru...@michaels.me.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 4:29 PM
To: "cf-talk" <cf-...@houseoffusion.com>
Subject: Re: CF, SmarterMail, and DKIM

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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

Right. That makes total sense.

Rock on.

Mik

At 04:29 PM 3/5/2014, Russ Michaels wrote:

>I think it might, as I think a requirement is you need to authenticate, so
>if you just have smartermail set to allow open relay from your web server,
>there is no authentication involved.
>
>give it a try.
>
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Mik Muller <ad...@montaguema.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> No. Will that fix it?
>>
>> Mik
>>
>>
>> At 03:43 PM 3/5/2014, Justin Scott wrote:
>>
>> >> I am using SmarterMail to deliver my email from CF. However,
>> >> emails that are generated don't seem to have the DKIM signing
>> >> attached.
>> >
>> >Do you have a username and password entered into the "Mail" settings
>> >in the ColdFusion administrator for the connection to your mail
>> >server?
>> >
>> >
>> >-Justin
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

Fixed. Danke. Now to figure out why the public key is failing. Could just be propagation.

BTW, if you ever want to see what mailservers see and possibly test for when they receive emails from your server, this is a BRILLIANT tool to use...

http://www.brandonchecketts.com/emailtest.php

Really useful to help see how your rDNS, SPF, DKIM, etc., look to the world.

Try sending an email to make-up-your...@www.brandonchecketts.com and go to his tool to see how it faired. In my case I tested both from my personal email and through a web form.

Mik

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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

Mik, I'm sure you've confirmed this already, but does the TXT Record value
of the DKIM in SmarterMail match the value of the TXT Record Value you
entered in the DNS record for your domain?

I have found that sometimes it takes about a day for a DKIM TXT record to
propagate -- dunno why.

HTH.

Eric

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From: "Mik Muller" <ad...@montaguema.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 5:25 PM

To: "cf-talk" <cf-...@houseoffusion.com>
Subject: Re: CF, SmarterMail, and DKIM

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[hofar...@houseoffusion.com]

Yes, it does, however there appears to be a glitch in SmarterMail in terms of DKIM. If you get it right it will pass the DNS test internally, and even pass two other DKIM tests...

http://www.dnswatch.info/dns/dnslookup?la=en&host=dkim._domainkey.webworksserver.com&type=TXT&submit=Resolve

http://protodave.com/tools/dkim-key-checker/

... yet still not pass the Brandon Checketts email test, which I trust more, somehow. I finally had to go to Port25.com to generate a public and private key and manually paste them into the domainConfig.xml for the domain.

I'm waiting for SmarterTools to fix the bug in SM before doing the final upgrade. I have 95 email domains to update and just can't bear to think about doing this manually for all of them.

BTW, for anyone interested in reading about my saga, written slightly tongue in cheek, I posted this yesterday. It's a long read.

http://montaguewebworks.com/index.cfm?p=n.61&title=Ten+Days+of+Email+Hell

This is an exhaustive review of what is required to pass muster with Gmail, etc. They've all seriously ramped up their email security over the past few weeks, I think.

Thanks,

Mik

At 06:34 PM 3/5/2014, er...@ebwebwork.com wrote:

>Mik, I'm sure you've confirmed this already, but does the TXT Record value
>of the DKIM in SmarterMail match the value of the TXT Record Value you
>entered in the DNS record for your domain?
>
> I have found that sometimes it takes about a day for a DKIM TXT record to
>propagate -- dunno why.
>
> HTH.
>
> Eric
>
> *******
>Eric Bourland
>Internet Project Development
>Washington, DC
>www.ebwebwork.com
>
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