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Improve mail quality
The email sent by certspotter is so low quality, that it's hard to get it through a spam filter.
Please add:
- A configurable "From" (i.e. sender address).
- Use this from in the SMTP hello message (-f option of sendmail)
- Use the header line "Precendence: bulk" to indicate it's not human generated.
- If possible add some short text like "This is an automated message of certspotter running on {machinename}. A new certificate for domain {domain} was detected in the list of {ctprovidername}. Following text describes the certificate:" ... or something similar to make it look like a real human would write this. Make the email also better readable.
Especially the sender from address and the "From:" mail header are important. They also enable to properly setup DKIM/DMARC.
First 3 points I fixed hardcoded in notify.go on my system: fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "From: myname@mytld\n") fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "To: %s\n", strings.Join(to, ", ")) fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "Subject: [certspotter] %s\n", notif.Summary()) fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "Date: %s\n", time.Now().Format(mailDateFormat)) fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "Message-ID: <%s>\n", generateMessageID()) fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "Mime-Version: 1.0\n") fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII\n") fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "X-Mailer: certspotter\n") fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "Precedence: bulk\n") fmt.Fprintf(stdin, "\n") fmt.Fprint(stdin, notif.Text())
args := []string{"-i", "-f", "myname@mytld", "--"}