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CLI USAGE

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Installation

Download mailauth for your platform:

NB! Downloadable files are quite large because these are packaged Node.js applications

Alternatively you can install mailauth from npm.

npm install -g mailauth

Help

$ mailauth --help
$ mailauth report --help
$ mailauth sign --help
$ mailauth seal --help
$ mailauth spf --help

Available commands

report

report command takes an email message and returns a JSON formatted report for SPF, DKIM, ARC, DMARC and BIMI. Not all reports might make sense for your use case, eg. SPF check for an outbound message usually gives no useful info, so you can ignore the parts you're not interested in.

$ mailauth report [options] [email]

Where

  • options are option flags and arguments
  • email is the path to EML formatted email message file. If not provided then email message is read from standard input

Options

  • --client-ip x.x.x.x or -i x.x.x.x is the IP of the remote client that sent the email. If not provided then it is parsed from the latest Received header
  • --sender user@example.com or -f address is the email address from the MAIL FROM command. If not provided then it is parsed from the latest Return-Path header
  • --helo hostname or -e hostname is the client hostname from the HELO/EHLO command. Used in some obscure SPF validation operations
  • --mta hostname or -m hostname is the server hostname doing the validation checks. Defaults to os.hostname()
  • --dns-cache /path/to/dns.json or -n path is the path to a file with cached DNS query responses. If this file is provided then no actual DNS requests are performed, only cached values from this file are used.
  • --verbose or -v if this flag is set then mailauth writes some debugging info to standard error
  • --max-lookups nr or -x nr defines the allowed DNS lookup limit for SPF checks. Defaults to 50.

Example

$ mailauth report --verbose --dns-cache examples/dns-cache.json test/fixtures/message2.eml
Reading email message from test/fixtures/message2.eml
DNS query for TXT mail.projectpending.com: not found
DNS query for TXT _dmarc.projectpending.com: not found
{
  "receivedChain": [
  ...

See full example for DKIM checks here.

sign

sign command takes an email message and signs it with a DKIM digital signature.

$ mailauth sign [options] [email]

Where

  • options are option flags and arguments
  • email is the path to EML formatted email message file. If not provided then email message is read from standard input

Options

  • --private-key /path or -k /path is the path to a private key for signing
  • --domain example.com or -d example.com is the domain name for signing (d= tag)
  • --selector xxx or -s xxx is the key selector name for signing (s= tag)
  • --algo rsa-sha256 or -a rsa-sha256 is the signing algorithm. Defaults either to "rsa-sha256" or "ed25519-sha256" depending on the private key format (a= tag)
  • --canonicalization algo or -c algo is the canonicalization algorithm, defaults to "relaxed/relaxed" (c= tag)
  • --time 12345 or -t 12345 is the signing time as a unix timestamp (t= tag)
  • --header-fields "message-id:date" or -h keys is a colon separated list of header field names to sign (h= tag)
  • --body-length 12345 or -l 12345 is the maximum length of canonicalizated body to sign (l= tag)
  • --headers-only or -o If set return signing headers only. Default is to return the entire message.

Example

$ mailauth sign /path/message.eml --domain kreata.ee --selector test --privateKey /path/private-rsa.pem --verbose
Reading email message from /path/message.eml
Signing domain:             kreata.ee
Key selector:               test
Canonicalization algorithm: relaxed/relaxed
Hashing algorithm:          rsa-sha256
Signing time:               2020-12-03T23:00:14.956Z
--------
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kreata.ee;
 h=MIME-Version: Date: Message-ID: Subject: To: From: Content-Type;
 ...

seal

seal command takes an email message and seals it with an ARC digital signature.

$ mailauth seal [options] [email]

Where

  • options are option flags and arguments
  • email is the path to EML formatted email message file. If not provided then email message is read from standard input

Options

As the emails needs to be authenticated before sealing then seal command expects in additon to sealing key information also the authentication options from the report command.

  • --private-key /path or -k /path is the path to a private key for sealing
  • --domain example.com or -d example.com is the domain name for sealing (d= tag)
  • --selector xxx or -s xxx is the key selector name for sealing (s= tag)
  • --algo rsa-sha256 or -a rsa-sha256 is the sealing algorithm. Defaults either to "rsa-sha256" or "ed25519-sha256" depending on the private key format (a= tag)
  • --time 12345 or -t 12345 is the sealing time as a unix timestamp (t= tag)
  • --header-fields "message-id:date" or -h keys is a colon separated list of header field names to seal (h= tag)
  • --client-ip x.x.x.x or -i x.x.x.x is the IP of the remote client that sent the email. If not provided then it is parsed from the latest Received header
  • --sender user@example.com or -f address is the email address from the MAIL FROM command. If not provided then it is parsed from the latest Return-Path header
  • --helo hostname or -e hostname is the client hostname from the HELO/EHLO command. Used in some obscure SPF validation operations
  • --mta hostname or -m hostname is the server hostname doing the validation checks. Defaults to os.hostname()
  • --dns-cache /path/to/dns.json or -n path is the path to a file with cached DNS query responses. If this file is provided then no actual DNS requests are performed, only cached values from this file are used.
  • --headers-only or -o If set return signing headers only. Default is to return the entire message.

Canonicalization (c= tag) is always "relaxed/relaxed" when sealing, this can not be changed

Example

$ mailauth seal /path/message.eml --domain kreata.ee --selector test --privateKey /path/private-rsa.pem --verbose
Reading email message from /path/message.eml
Signing domain:             kreata.ee
Key selector:               test
Canonicalization algorithm: relaxed/relaxed
Hashing algorithm:          rsa-sha256
Signing time:               2020-12-03T23:04:41.082Z
--------
ARC-Seal: i=3; a=rsa-sha256; t=1607036681; cv=pass; d=kreata.ee; s=test;
 b=Fo3hayVos+J77lzzgmr6J92gsUBKlPt/ZkoQt9ZCi514zy8+1WLvTHmI8CMUXAcegdcqP0NHt
 ...

spf

spf command takes an email address and an IP address and returns a JSON formatted SPF report.

$ mailauth spf [options]

Where

  • options are option flags and arguments

Options

  • --sender user@example.com or -f address is the email address from the MAIL FROM command. Required.
  • --client-ip x.x.x.x or -i x.x.x.x is the IP of the remote client that sent the email. Required.
  • --helo hostname or -e hostname is the client hostname from the HELO/EHLO command. Used in some obscure SPF validation operations
  • --mta hostname or -m hostname is the server hostname doing the validation checks. Defaults to os.hostname(). Used in authentication headers.
  • --dns-cache /path/to/dns.json or -n path is the path to a file with cached DNS query responses. If this file is provided then no actual DNS requests are performed, only cached values from this file are used.
  • --verbose or -v if this flag is set then mailauth writes some debugging info to standard error
  • --headers-only or -o If set return SPF authentication header only. Default is to return a JSON structure.
  • --max-lookups nr or -x nr defines the allowed DNS lookup limit for SPF checks. Defaults to 50.

Example

$ mailauth spf --verbose -f andris@wildduck.email -i 217.146.76.20
Checking SPF for andris@wildduck.email
Maximum DNS lookups: 50
--------
DNS query for TXT wildduck.email: [["v=spf1 mx a -all"]]
DNS query for MX wildduck.email: [{"exchange":"mail.wildduck.email","priority":1}]
DNS query for A mail.wildduck.email: ["217.146.76.20"]
{
  "domain": "wildduck.email",
  "client-ip": "217.146.76.20",
  ...

license

Display licenses for mailauth and included modules.

$ mailauth licenses

DNS cache file

In general you would use the --dns-cache option only when testing. This way you can provide different kind of DNS responses without actually setting up a DNS server and unlike when using real DNS you do not have to wait for the changes in the DNS server to propagate – whatever is in the provided cache file, is used for the DNS query responses.

DNS cache file includes a JSON encoded object where main keys are the domain names (eg. "_dmarc.example.com"), sub keys are resource record types (eg. "TXT") and values are the corresponding values as provided by the dns module.

{
    "full_domain_name": {
        "TXT": [["string1"]]
    }
}

Example

This example provides SPF and DMARC policy records for "example.com":

{
    "example.com": {
        "TXT": [["v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net", " include:servers.mcsv.net include:servers.outfunnel.com ip4:18.194.223.2 ~all"]]
    },
    "_dmarc.example.com": {
        "TXT": [["v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject;"]]
    }
}