A DKIM signing library in ruby.

Documentation

sudo gem install dkim

A private key, a domain, and a selector need to be specified in order to sign messages.

These can be specified globally

Dkim::domain      = 'example.com'
Dkim::selector    = 'mail'
Dkim::private_key = open('private.pem').read

Options can be overridden per message.

Dkim.sign(mail, :selector => 'mail2', :private_key => OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(open('private2.pem').read))

For more details see {Dkim::Options}

Dkim contains Dkim::Interceptor which can be used to sign all mail delivered by mail, which is used by actionmailer in rails >= 3.

For rails, create an initializer (for example config/initializers/dkim.rb) with the following template.

# Configure dkim globally (see above)
Dkim::domain      = 'example.com'
Dkim::selector    = 'mail'
Dkim::private_key = open('private.pem').read

# This will sign all ActionMailer deliveries
ActionMailer::Base.register_interceptor(Dkim::Interceptor)

Calling Dkim.sign on a string representing an email message returns the message with a DKIM signature inserted.

For example

mail = Dkim.sign(<<EOS)
To: someone@example.com
From: john@example.com
Subject: hi

Howdy
EOS

Dkim.sign(mail)
# =>
# To: someone@example.com
# From: john@example.com
# Subject: hi
# DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=example.com; q=dns/txt; s=mail; t=1305917829;
#  	bh=qZxwTnSM1ywsrq0Ag9UhQSOtVIG+sW5zDkB+hPbuX08=; h=from:subject:to;
#  	b=0mKnNOkxFGiww63Zu4t46J7eZc3Uak3I9km3IH2Le3XcnSNtWJgxiwBX26IZ5yzcT
# 	VwJzcCnPKCScIJMQ7yfbfXmNsKVIOV6eSUqu1YvJ1fgzlSAXuDEMNFTjoto5rrdA+
# 	BgX849hEY/bWHDl1JJgNpiwtpl4t0Q7M4BVJUd7Lo=
#
# Howdy

More flexibility can be found using {Dkim::SignedMail} directly.

For sending mesages through Amazon SES, certain headers should not be signed

Dkim::signable_headers = Dkim::DefaultHeaders - %w{Message-ID Resent-Message-ID Date Return-Path Bounces-To}

Some OpenSSL's don't have sha256 support. RFC 6376 states that signers SHOULD sign using rsa-sha256. For this reason, dkim will not use rsa-sha1 as a fallback. If you wish to override this behaviour and use whichever algorithm is available you can use this snippet (not recommended).

Dkim::signing_algorithm = defined?(OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256) ? 'rsa-sha256' : 'rsa-sha1'

• Strictly a DKIM signing library. No support for signature verification. (none planned)
• No support for the older Yahoo! DomainKeys standard (RFC 4870) (none planned)
• No support for specifying DKIM identity i= (planned)
• No support for body length l= (planned)
• No support for copied header fields z= (not immediately planned)

• RFC 6376
• Inspired by perl's Mail-DKIM

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 John Hawthorn

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