Running email in dn42 is not very complicated. Your SMTP daemon probably already listens on the wildcard address, so you mostly need to:

  • open your firewall to allow TCP/25 from dn42
  • setup DNS (MX records, or simply relevant A records)
  • configure your mail server if needed

Redirect

There are forwarding rules for PERSON @ dn42.org to the mail addresses which have been given in the registry. Please note that the trailing -DN42 is stripped from the local part.

Example

Handle Alias Redirection
STV0G-DN42 stv0g@dn42.org post@steffenvogel.de

Test email

Send an email to test@evenet.dn42 to check if your mail setup is correct. This host will reply using the following sieve filter:

require ["regex", "variables", "vacation-seconds"];
if header :contains "To" ["test@evenet.dn42"] {
  if header :matches "Subject" "*" {
      set "subject_was" ": ${1}";
  }
  vacation :addresses ["test@evenet.dn42"] :seconds 60 :subject  "Re: ${subject_was}" "Your dn42 email setup works!";
}

Exim tips

Sending emails

By default on Debian, Exim refuses to send mail to other mailservers when they resolve to RFC1918 addresses. This will manifest by the following error message when trying to send a mail:

** foo@bar.dn42: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts

This is controlled by the ignore_target_hosts variable in the configuration file.

Receiving emails

Don't forget to add your dn42 domains to the list of local domains, so that you accept incoming emails. On Debian, it is controlled by dc_other_hostnames in update-exim4.conf.conf. For instance: 

dc_other_hostnames='myself.org;myself.dn42;myserver.myself.dn42'

Postfix

Sending Mails

If your machine sends/receives Mails in "clearnet" with specific bound IP's you need to create an additional transport in master.cf

out_dn42  unix -       -       n       -       -       smtp
    -o smtp_bind_address=172.23.67.1
    -o smtp_bind_address6=fd70:96c9:ef25::1
    -o smtp_helo_name=ns1.mhm.dn42
    -o syslog_name=postfix-dn42

and add this transport to /etc/postfix/transport for dn42 (and dont forget to postmap)

.dn42           out_dn42:

This should to the trick for sending mails via your DN42-IP

If you use smtpd_recipient_restrictions you can use the following rule to white-list dn42 as sender. This can circumvent certain rdns configuration failure or in case you use rbl lists:

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
                         permit_sasl_authenticated,
                         check_client_access cidr:/etc/postfix/dn42.cidr,
                         reject_non_fqdn_sender,
                         # ...
                         permit
#/etc/postfix/dn42.cidr
172.16.0.0/12 OK
10.0.0.0/8 OK
fc00::/7 OK
$ postmap /etc/postfix/dn42.cidr

Receiving emails

The Domain mails should be received for has to be added to mydestination = in main.cf

New SMTP RFC SMTPUTF8

EAI

Email Address Internationalization (EAI) as defined in RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8 extension), RFC 6532 (Internationalized email headers) and RFC 6533 (Internationalized delivery status notifications).

Postfix

Introduced with Postfix version 3.0, this fully supports UTF-8 email addresses and UTF-8 message header values. more at the SMTPUTF8_README.

Exim

Watch Exims EAI Tracker Bug 1177