31 Responses to “Installing DomainKeys on a cPanel server”

1. Paul Host, on October 18th, 2007 at 3:28 am Said:

   Good tutorial,Helped me a lot,thank you

2. abbey, on October 26th, 2007 at 4:14 pm Said:

   This is the best article for setting up domainkeys. No technical jargon, just straight to the point.

   Thanks a Million and God Bless.

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4. Andrew Duck, on November 4th, 2007 at 9:03 pm Said:

   The script you posted for applying to all users should be modified to the following:

   for i in `ls /var/cpanel/users` ;do /usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer $i; done

   Without the ;done it does not execute on our servers (RHEL 4).

5. yolau, on November 5th, 2007 at 10:07 am Said:

   Thanks for the correction Andrew!

6. Sham, on November 7th, 2007 at 9:08 am Said:

   All of our server with Centos 4 & 5 OS will need to use the exact code to trigger the domainkeys installer :

   #!/usr/bin/perl

   my %OPTS = @ARGV;
   my $user = $OPTS{’user’};
   system(”/usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer $user”);

   Hope this will helps others.

7. yolau, on November 7th, 2007 at 9:35 am Said:

   Thank you for your suggestion Sham !

8. Shivam, on November 11th, 2007 at 9:34 am Said:

   #!/usr/bin/perl

   my %OPTS = @ARGV;
   my $user = $OPTS{’user’};
   system(”/usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer $user”);

   Doesnt seem to work with CPanel 11 Stable, though the manual domain_keys_install works fine , so does the script to update all existing domains.

   The one for all “new” accounts ..just doesnt work.

9. yolau, on November 11th, 2007 at 11:43 am Said:

   What errors are you getting?

10. New man, on December 2nd, 2007 at 4:07 am Said:

    Can you make this code

    my %OPTS = @ARGV;
    my $user = $OPTS{’user’};
    /usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer $user

    in DNS standard template

11. yolau, on December 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 am Said:

    No, I don’t see how…

12. Max, on December 18th, 2007 at 2:13 pm Said:

    Will it auto regenerate key when key will expire? or mail will just stop working?

13. Eric Caldwell, on December 26th, 2007 at 10:26 am Said:

    I finally got this working with cPanel 11. What I did was create a file in the /scripts directory called postwwwacct.

    Then pasted the following:

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    print “\nStarting install of Domainkeys\n”;
    my %OPTS = @ARGV;
    my $user = $OPTS{’user’};
    system(”/usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer”, $user);
    print “\nDone with install of Domainkeys\n”;
    exit;

    And domainkeys are being created and installed automatically. Now, if only I could figure out how to install SPF records the same way for my clients hosted accounts. There is another util in cpanel called spf_installer but I think it’s broke because it doesn’t put the domain name in the Domain field.

    Any thoughts on SPF records for client sites and how to automate that? I tried editing the zone template but that doesn’t do anything.

14. yolau, on December 26th, 2007 at 10:42 am Said:

    Eric actually editing the zone template will work only for accounts that your create after that.
    I am already preparing a SPF article and it should be posted in just a few days.

15. Eric Caldwell, on December 26th, 2007 at 11:18 am Said:

    I found a great resource for checking your SPF and DK records. Send an email form the account you want to check to:

    auth-results@verifier.port25.com

    A return email will be sent with results which are very informative.

16. yolau, on December 27th, 2007 at 3:28 am Said:

    Eric I pushed the article on SPF records sooner then I initially planed it.
    http://www.cpanelconfig.com/how-to/install-spf-records-on-a-cpanel-server/
    Hope it helps you !

17. Aaron, on December 27th, 2007 at 12:16 pm Said:

    Well for some reason after doing all of the above and then sending an email to that test address it still shows as unsigned

    i ran the srcipt to install domain keys on one user account and then sent an email heres ther response i get
    Authentication-Results: verifier.port25.com; dkim=neutral (message not signed);

    Is there some other configuration needed for this to work on a cpanel 11 server running Exim4?

18. Eric Caldwell, on January 5th, 2008 at 5:05 pm Said:

    DKIM and DK are different so I wouldn’t worry about that. DKIM is coming but I don’t know of any ISP really using DKIM yet. That’s at the individual message level.

19. Aaron Moon, on January 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm Said:

    DKIM IS being used for yahoo accounts, and I wish there was some way to implement this technology SOON, I know there are people out there that are having a REAL tough time getting legit newsletters to yahoo members…. you can sign all of the forms they require for bulk mailing, but DKIM seems to be even mentioned in thier bulk mailer forms, there is a comment about when do you plan on deploying DKIM

20. Dennis, on January 12th, 2008 at 8:22 am Said:

    Hm.. I have:
    WHM 11.2.0 cPanel 11.8.0-C15896
    CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0

    but no file /scripts/postwwwacct

21. Eric Caldwell, on January 14th, 2008 at 9:15 am Said:

    Dennis, you have to create that file by hand.

22. Car Loan, on January 31st, 2008 at 2:23 pm Said:

    ing DomainKeys on a cPanel server | cPanelConfig - cPanel server configuration guide will possibly be amazing case that you precisly covered miraculously; thank you much!

23. Yves, on February 5th, 2008 at 7:19 pm Said:

    /usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer username

    The email test always fails saying no key found. from http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/
    Any suggestions?

24. Dan, on February 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm Said:

    cPanel 11 / centOS 5

    The following script finally worked!

    I was trying it after creating postwwwacct and pasting the code without setting the permission to 711

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    print “\nStarting install of Domainkeys\n”;
    my %OPTS = @ARGV;
    my $user = $OPTS{’user’};
    system(”/usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer”, $user);
    print “\nDone with install of Domainkeys\n”;
    exit;

    DONT FORGET THIS STEP

    chmod 711 /scripts/postwwwacct

    THANKS FOR THIS RESOURCE !!!

    Another Issue:
    http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/
    There are two testing tools in there.

    1. A DomainKey Policy Record Tester.
    2. A DomainKey Selector Record Tester.

    Tool one returns nothing for example.com

    For tool 2 Enter the domain name in the following format
    default._domainkey.example.com

    then it returns the created key

    SO IN REAL LIFE HOW TO USE THIS DOMAIN KEY FOR OUT GOING EMAILS???

    IS THERE ANY STEPS TO ACTIVATE IT ANYWHERE?

25. George Law, on March 24th, 2008 at 7:06 am Said:

    Ok,so this all sets up the DNS files and everything for DomainKeys, but has anyone actually got them WORKING?

    I use the Policy Record tester on sourceforge and it doesn’t find anything and I have also used a couple different test email addresses I have found :
    dk@crynwr.com and autorespond+dk-nofws@dk.elandsys.com

    Both of these test the DomainKeys from the originating server, however neither of these recognized the cPanel DomainKey setup.

    crynwr.com reports :
    Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
    DomainKey-Status: bad

    elandsys.com reports :
    DomainKeys Test: DomainKey-Signature could not be verified
    DomainKeys Policy: “t=y; o=~; postmaster@viewdm.com”

    DomainKeys Selector: default
    “k=rsa;
    p=MHwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADawAwaAJhAONbBbKiVKQj6fYMRUDGethoWibuRyqi2gForbkR29Dpyw27wAEAOx0cz6×4Cl6PE/leRK16+G6dGDqqiLlSGHOwNe7k4NZ2l06hPmlCD4n401TqBf78GJUAziqhg70bvQIDAQAB;”

26. Gary, on April 18th, 2008 at 8:31 am Said:

    You say add:
    my %OPTS = @ARGV;
    my $user = $OPTS{’user’};
    /usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer $user

    to: scripts/postwwwacct

    I do not see this file and I notice others say you have to create that file. What is the proper way to do this? I can’t see having to create that file being the proper way because there is a file already creating accounts so wouldn’t creating “postwwwacct” just cause a conflict with the other file?

    I have found this file on my server and it seems to be the file that creates the accounts: wwwacct

    Should I paste your suggestions into that file or do I still need to create the other file?

    I ran this and it work fine:
    /usr/local/cpanel/bin/domain_keys_installer username

    WHM 11.15.0 cPanel 11.18.3-C21703
    CENTOS Enterprise 4.6 i686 on standard - WHM X v3.1.0

27. Ben, on May 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm Said:

    Hey,

    This worked fine for all my users bar one, i keep getting this error:

    ./domain_keys_installer: usage: ./domain_keys_installer at ./domain_keys_installer line 16, line 75.

    Any idea what that means?

28. Ben, on May 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm Said:

    My mistake, it means invalid username.

    Account username was a typo and i was spelling it correctly.

29. example of a jargon, on June 29th, 2008 at 6:47 am Said:

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30. Confluence: iWeb Dedicated, on July 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am Said:

    Installation de DomainKeys pour un utilisateur cPanel…

    Il faut simplement utiliser la commande suivante \\ /usr/local/cpanel/bin/domainkeysinstaller username Réf.:…

31. ASU Service, on July 16th, 2008 at 6:00 pm Said:

    Thanks much to everyone for all the work. Just made my life a LOT easier!

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