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| author | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-07-05 23:16:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-07-05 23:18:11 +0100 |
| commit | 639196f0c9cb2fd972897a7652f903b11f9154d1 (patch) | |
| tree | c2aac30d05f3dc7b75f63f6616291b2ce48557cd /README.md | |
| parent | 404cb2d98c0fbdef83b35e8fe995972fa8b47531 (diff) | |
install mox config
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@@ -7,3 +7,98 @@ To install: ```sh wget -O- https://git.joeac.net/joeac/joeac.net/raw/branch/main/install.sh | sh ``` + +## DNS setup + +A/AAAA DNS records are added automatically by `make install`, but in order to +get `mox` working as an email server, you'll have to manually add the following +DNS records. + +Deliver mail for mail.joeac.net to mail.joeac.net: + +``` +mail.joeac.net. MX 10 mail.joeac.net. +``` + +All emails from the email server will be signed with two DKIM keys. So that +clients can verify the authenticity of the messages, provide these keys as TXT +records: + +``` +2026a._domainkey.mail.joeac.net. TXT v=DKIM1;h=sha256;p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAvYfjrzmYgBtYofzBwI80aiW98+M2g6z+gd1Iwz9g0y30rPFNTctFn9GwBNuYBgZiZxB+sqjEbPMbr3li/R7i0A9t/KbNNJhkNC+4IjKJjk+jw1CXm4vXOUa4YSYWwy7NVYTH/QwZGz6fwjVM7YvDnnE4gG2NwrVx+AXlONt2R1G+qgV6HAIIvVi8T0yCjjqEc5B5bKlqk0XU9vSyUFJhhKnR/KNRe79C+H9GWJzcU7HUCmIHX04Xi0JeB/wm3weF1xjtGTsWyy5BmHHsfWGqSr2Dbg5o6AI5W0h4VkQ4QzdEYGVQ9ZBDyqFQwQFXLn0oHZjCD/vFzPOPdM5pxF/OgwIDAQAB +2026b._domainkey.mail.joeac.net. TXT v=DKIM1;h=sha256;p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAzcrk9FUt6AdrvnAP3KawuOTLw7uL5SJ+ZYmShuz41zwM6bPQteGSSwddFXIxcqVlJrdFahrK4KvHX/sw/hWVfZoPLDdwsGN5eI8cqQjNDE+JDu9BbPlTituva4Hkve0hbAKDqA8jmbcZg6aU7b44Kzq8UpWAlPO273Rq2tsbCBcITt8B3NFoeY9CSsZU1LqGl855GUtaNyhlPaAvfab3Q9/4wyusPhCHlBYaRK+ZzuSMs5KEOG6n4kbZfMVi2+4c/bPU5PdTuyvbSIEqjNH4TpfatE0I9ubGv0WbAzr5EZbv5+xtukZ/dIisPPMjn1AbjpSJYNYr2OYgey6+WvzRmQIDAQAB +``` + +Specify the MX host is allowed to send for our domain and for itself (for DSNs). +~all means softfail for anything else, which is done instead of -all to prevent +older mail servers from rejecting the message because they never get to looking +for a dkim/dmarc pass. + +``` +mail.joeac.net. TXT v=spf1 ip4:217.155.190.42 ip6:fdc9:6aec:7a18:0:2e0:4cff:fe61:9b17 mx ~all +``` + +Emails that fail the DMARC check (without aligned DKIM and without aligned SPF) +should be rejected, and request reports. If you email through mailing lists that +strip DKIM-Signature headers and don't rewrite the From header, you may want to +set the policy to p=none. + +``` +_dmarc.mail.joeac.net. TXT v=DMARC1;p=reject;rua=mailto:dmarcreports@mail.joeac.net!10m +``` + +Remote servers can use MTA-STS to verify our TLS certificate with the WebPKI +pool of CA's (certificate authorities) when delivering over SMTP with +STARTTLSTLS. + +``` +mta-sts.mail.joeac.net. CNAME mail.joeac.net. +_mta-sts.mail.joeac.net. TXT v=STSv1; id=20260705T153220 +``` + +Request reporting about TLS failures. + +``` +_smtp._tls.mail.joeac.net. TXT v=TLSRPTv1; rua=mailto:tlsreports@mail.joeac.net +``` + +Client settings will reference a subdomain of the hosted domain, making it +easier to migrate to a different server in the future by not requiring settings +in all clients to be updated. + +``` +clientsettings.mail.joeac.net. CNAME mail.joeac.net. +``` + +Autoconfig is used by Thunderbird. Autodiscover is (in theory) used by +Microsoft. + +``` +autoconfig.mail.joeac.net. CNAME mail.joeac.net. +_autodiscover._tcp.mail.joeac.net. SRV 0 1 443 mail.joeac.net. +``` + +For secure IMAP and submission autoconfig, point to mail host. + +``` +_imaps._tcp.mail.joeac.net. SRV 0 1 993 mail.joeac.net. +_submissions._tcp.mail.joeac.net. SRV 0 1 465 mail.joeac.net. +``` + +Next records specify POP3 and non-TLS ports are not to be used. These are +optional and safe to leave out (e.g. if you have to click a lot in a DNS admin +web interface). + +``` +_imap._tcp.mail.joeac.net. SRV 0 0 0 . +_submission._tcp.mail.joeac.net. SRV 0 0 0 . +_pop3._tcp.mail.joeac.net. SRV 0 0 0 . +_pop3s._tcp.mail.joeac.net. SRV 0 0 0 . +``` + +Optional: You could mark Let's Encrypt as the only Certificate Authority allowed +to sign TLS certificates for your domain. + +``` +mail.joeac.net. CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org" +``` |
