Email support for joincircles.net

[edzillion]

Since we've moved the domain to route53 we need to setup email forwarders for the joincircles.net domain. I am following the tutorial here, which seems to be the best way to do this.

alternative, similar tutorial here

[edzillion]

I have realised that the problem here has something to do with the domain settings - aws seems to think it's controlling them but when I look up the records it seems to show the old (namecheap) settings.

https://viewdns.info/dnsrecord/?domain=joincircles.net

The domain has been moved, but I notice that the nameservers are still the old ones:

Name servers

dns1.registrar-servers.com

dns2.registrar-servers.com

I am going to update these as a next step once I figure out what they should be :confused:

[edzillion]

ok that seems to have fixed it. joincircles.net is properly redirecting to www.joincircles.net and all the other dns weirdness is gone.

I have retry'd the DKIM validation and we'll see how long it takes.

[edzillion]

DKIM validation completed successfully.

So I went in and realised I had never added a MX record to the DNS settings for joincircles.net - so mails weren't even hitting the endpoint.

So added a MX record like so: 10 smtp.amazon.host

So the lamda function which forwards mails is working and the important piece is the config block:

var defaultConfig = {
  fromEmail: "*****@joincircles.net",
  subjectPrefix: "",
  emailBucket: "*****",
  emailKeyPrefix: "",
  forwardMapping: {
    "example@joincircles.net": [
      "example@gmail.com"
    ],
    "example2@joincircles.net": [
      "example2@gmail.com"
    ],
    "@joincircles.net": [
      "catchallemail@gmail.com"
    ]
  }
};

If you need to add an email you will need to add an extra entry in the forwardMapping block

[edzillion]

AWS has lots of spam filtering and blacklists etc but this setup is somewhat susceptible to abuse as all emails to non-existent addresses are forwarded to the catch-all email. Perhaps we can change this if there is a lot of spam.

[edzillion]

OK I am going to close this as it is working as expected. I have added a wiki page to document how to add a new email here:

https://github.com/CirclesUBI/circles-wiki/blob/master/administration/setting-up-a-new-joincircles-email.md