One day I was asked to make our email deliverabilty more reliable. I found the Yahoo domain keys and DKIM were additional ways to help with some email providers besides SPF. I setup DK and DKIM milters and found that when sending bulk loads of emails (100k+) the time it took to sign and send was well over 7 seconds per email. I am sure there are tweaks that we could have done to modify the sending script to deal with this but we just wanted something simple and easy to use. Later I decided to install DKIM proxy and make submitting email to an email server easy and requiring no scripting change. After testing I found that our email blasting was fast and our deliverability for sending email had gone up about 27%. We still continue relationships with email providers to gain trust but that is too an everchanging process. Below I documented what I did to get DKIMproxy and postfix configured on a RHEL 5 server. I believe it should be the same for CentOs 5 as well. Good Luck on your setup!
Website – http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/
Installing DKIMproxy
http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/download.html
Prerequisites
cpan install Mail::DKIM
cpan install Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA
cpan install Digest::SHA
cpan install Mail::Address
cpan install MIME::Base64
cpan install Net::DNS
cpan install Net::Server
cpan install Error
Installing DKIMproxy Service:
cd /home/admin/
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dkimproxy/dkimproxy-1.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf dkimproxy-1.2.tar.gz
cd dkimproxy-1.2
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/dkimproxy
make install
useradd dkimuser
passwd dkimuser
cp sample-dkim-init-script.sh /etc/init.d/dkimproxy
chkconfig –add dkimproxy
chkconfig dkimproxy on
Installing DKIMproxy to sign outbound messages
http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/usage.html
Generate a private/public key pair using OpenSSL:
cd /usr/local/dkim/
openssl genrsa -out private.key 1024
openssl rsa -in private.key -pubout -out public.key
chown dkimuser.root private.key
chmod 640 private.key
Pick a selector name… e.g. selector1
Put the public-key data in DNS, in your domain, using the selector name you picked. Take the contents of the public.key file and remove the PEM header and footer, and concatenate the lines of the file into one big line. Then create a TXT entry, like this:
selector1._domainkey IN TXT “k=rsa; t=s; p=MHwwDQYJK … OprwIDAQAB”
where selector1 is the name of the selector chosen in the last step and the p= parameter contains the public-key as one long string of characters.
Configure DKIMproxy
Create a file named /usr/local/dkimproxy/etc/dkimproxy_out.conf and give it the following content:
# specify what address/port DKIMproxy should listen on
listen 127.0.0.1:10027# specify what address/port DKIMproxy forwards mail to
relay 127.0.0.1:10028# specify what domains DKIMproxy can sign for (comma-separated, no spaces)
domain clubmom.com# specify what signatures to add
signature dkim(c=relaxed)
signature domainkeys(c=nofws)# specify location of the private key
keyfile /usr/local/dkimproxy/private.key# specify the selector (i.e. the name of the key record put in DNS)
selector clubmomdkim
Start DKIMproxy
service dkimproxy start
Setting up the outbound proxy with Postfix
http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/postfix-outbound-howto.html
Edit the /etc/postfix/master.cf with the the following:
#
# modify the default submission service to specify a content filter
# and restrict it to local clients and SASL authenticated clients only
#
submission inet n – n – – smtpd
-o smtpd_etrn_restrictions=reject
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o content_filter=dksign:[127.0.0.1]:10027
-o receive_override_options=no_address_mappings
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject#
# specify the location of the DKIM signing proxy
# Note: we allow “4″ simultaneous deliveries here; high-volume sites may
# want a number higher than 4.
# Note: the smtp_discard_ehlo_keywords option requires Postfix 2.2 or
# better. Leave it off if your version does not support it.
#
dksign unix – – n – 4 smtp
-o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes
-o smtp_discard_ehlo_keywords=8bitmime,starttls#
# service for accepting messages FROM the DKIM signing proxy
#
127.0.0.1:10028 inet n – n – 10 smtpd
-o content_filter=
-o receive_override_options=no_unknown_recipient_checks,no_header_body_checks
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
-o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8
-o smtpd_authorized_xforward_hosts=127.0.0.0/8
reload postfix
Setup your mail server to send to dkimproxy
A dev environment is setup on office1 using dev04 as an outbound mailserver using dkimproxy on port 587
To use sendmail and configure a smarthost onto a port other than 25. Modify /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
define(`SMART_HOST’,`relay:dev04.clubmom.local’)dnl
define(`RELAY_MAILER’,`esmtp’)dnl
define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS’, `TCP $h 587′)dnl
#make -C /etc/mail
#service sendmail restart
