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mail-dispatcher-core

.Net Core Email Dispatch MicroService to manage email queue, send reports with domain keys

Features

  1. Automatic Domain Key creation and signing
  2. Automatic DNS resolution to find MX records
  3. Try and connect to best possible MX and cache the result for 5 hours
  4. Try Sending emails 3 times if there was a network issue
  5. If server did not accept the message, an exception will be saved in JobResponse
  6. Delete all jobs after 7 days
  7. Save email in blob till the time it is trying to send
  8. This app uses Eternity Framework, so after crash and restart, it will resume the operations

Setup

  1. You will need azure storage account and you can setup your key in ConnectionStrings.AzureBlobs in appsettings.json.
  2. Application Insights must be configured to view the logs.
  3. Change AdminPassword in appsettings.json
  4. Setup Smtp.Domain that will be used in HELO/EHLO command, please make sure you setup correct reverse DNS for the same.

Login

  1. When you run it, it will open an empty index.html page.
  2. Open /swagger to open API endpoints.
  3. Click on /api/auth/login and Try to enter username admin and password that is configured in appsettings.json
  4. Once you login, you can create new account by clicking /api/accounts/new and enter following
   {
       "id": "unique-alpha-numeric-key",
       "selector": "", /// keep same as id
       "domainName": "", /// from domain name
       "bounceTriggers": "" // [optional] multiple http rest end points for bounce notification separated by new line
   }
  1. Above operation will generate public key for domainkey and auth key for REST Operations
  2. This will also generate required domainkey with selector, you will need to setup the domain key in your DNS.

Send Emails

  1. Use AuthKey and id from the account generation process.
  2. Simple, api/queue/simple will accept json to send html/text email. You can post attachments, for this, you will need to use form content type.
  3. Raw, you can use MimeMessage from MimeKit to compose your email in mime format and send it.
  4. When you send, you will get a job id in id field, you can use it to query status of your request.