Setting up dkim & spf with amavis on Ubuntu 16.04

Nov 9, 2016 • 1 min read

mkdir -p /etc/dkim/
amavisd-new genrsa /etc/dkim/domain.ninja.key.pem (change domain.ninja to your domain)
insert below code into nano /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-userand change domain.ninja there

amavisd-new showkeys (shows your public key for dns record)
Copy the content into your domain DNS record as a TXT record foo._domainkey.domain.ninja. to name and everything between () in text
add spf like this "v=spf1 mx a ptr ~all" to a TXT record
test if it works with amavisd-new testkeys
service amavis restart to restart service
send a email to check-auth@verifier.port25.com to check if dkim is working