authheaders

Node.js wrapper around the Python pip package authheaders exposing a function to generate Authentication-Results headers

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Install
• Usage
  • authenticateMessage
• Contributors
• License

Requirements

1. Ensure that you have a Python version of >= 3.6 installed.

   python3 --version

2. Install the package authheaders from our fork which contains a fix (until ValiMail/authentication-headers#6 is merged and released):

   pip3 install git+https://github.com/forwardemail/authentication-headers.git

3. Install dnspython v1.16.0:

   pip3 install dnspython==1.16.0

4. Install pyspf:

   pip3 install pyspf

Install

npm:

npm install authheaders

yarn:

yarn add authheaders

Usage

authenticateMessage

const fs = require('fs');

const { authenticateMessage } = require('authheaders');

const message = fs.readFileSync('/path/to/example.eml');
const authservId = 'mx.example.com';
const ip = '1.2.3.4';
const mailFrom = 'example.net';
const helo = 'domain.of.sender.example.net';

// then/catch usage
authenticateMessage(message, authservId, ip, mailFrom, helo)
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.error);

// async/await usage
(async () => {
  try {
    const result = await authenticateMessage(message, authservId, ip, mailFrom, helo);
    console.log(result);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err);
  }
})();

The value of result is an Object with properties header (String), and Objects for spf, dkim, arc, and dmarc.

These Objects contain a result (String) and conditionally a reason (String) value.

An example result object is provided below:

{
  header: 'example.com; spf=none smtp.helo=domain.of.sender.net smtp.mailfrom=test.com; dkim=pass header.d=forwardemail.net; arc=pass; dmarc=fail (Used From Domain Record) header.from=gmail.com policy.dmarc=none',
  spf: { result: 'none' },
  dkim: { result: 'pass' },
  arc: { result: 'pass' },
  dmarc: { policy: 'none', result: 'fail', reason: 'Used From Domain Record' }
}

Contributors

Name	Website
Nick Baugh	http://niftylettuce.com/

License

MIT © Nick Baugh