Building and sending e-mails securely does not have to be complicated. Today the mail-send crate was released including the following features:
- Generates e-mail messages conforming to the Internet Message Format standard (RFC 5322) with full MIME support (RFC 2045–2049) and automatic selection of the most optimal encoding for each message body part.
- DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures (RFC 6376).
- SMTP support with TLS and multiple authentication mechanisms (XOAUTH2, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, LOGIN and PLAIN).
- Full async (requires Tokio).
Composing and sending an e-mail message via SMTP is as simple as:
// Build a simple multipart message
let message = MessageBuilder::new()
.from(("John Doe", "[email protected]"))
.to(vec![
("Jane Doe", "[email protected]"),
("James Smith", "[email protected]"),
])
.subject("Hi!")
.html_body("<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")
.text_body("Hello world!");
// Connect to an SMTP relay server over TLS and
// authenticate using the provided credentials.
Transport::new("smtp.gmail.com")
.credentials("john", "p4ssw0rd")
.connect_tls()
.await
.unwrap()
.send(message)
.await
.unwrap();
And to sign a message with DKIM just do:
// Build a simple text message with a single attachment
let message = MessageBuilder::new()
.from(("John Doe", "[email protected]"))
.to("[email protected]")
.subject("Howdy!")
.text_body("These pretzels are making me thirsty.")
.binary_attachment("image/png", "pretzels.png", [1, 2, 3, 4].as_ref());
// Set up DKIM signer
let dkim = DKIM::from_pkcs1_pem_file("./cert.pem")
.unwrap()
.domain("example.com")
.selector("2022")
.headers(["From", "To", "Subject"]) // Headers to sign
.expiration(60 * 60 * 7); // Number of seconds before this signature expires (optional)
// Connect to an SMTP relay server over TLS.
// Signs each message with the configured DKIM signer.
Transport::new("smtp.example.com")
.dkim(dkim)
.connect_tls()
.await
.unwrap()
.send(message)
.await
.unwrap();
More examples can be found on Github. Enjoy DKIM signing!