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October 27, 2009

ColdFusion 9 Supports Digitally Signed E-Mail

Posted At : 9:22 PM
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A user just e-mailed me asking how to digitally sign e-mail messages sent using ColdFusion <cfmail> tag. Well, as it so happens, this was just added as a feature to ColdFusion 9. You can now specify the following, both as defaults in ColdFusion Administrator, and as <cfmail>attributes:

KEYALIAS - Alias specifying which certificate and private key within the keystore to use.
KEYPASSWORD - Password for your private key.
KEYSTORE - Path to the keystore containing the private key and certificate.
KEYSTOREPASSWORD - Exactly as the name suggests.
SIGN - TRUE/FALSE flag specifying whether or not to digitally sign generated e-mail.

There you go, in case you needed it, one more reason to upgrade!

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Why would someone want or need to sign an email? Are their specific advantages, or disadvantages

# Posted By Geoffrey | 6/22/11 4:03 PM

Digitally signed email messages are used when you want to send mail and be sure the sender is who they say they are. As I am sure you know (from receiving spam, as an example) faking an SMTP sender is easy. Heck, CFMAIL lets you put whatever you want in the FROM field. Email was never meant to be that secure, so that's usually ok. But for when you do need to guarantee that the sender is who they say they are, that's when digitally signed emails are used.

--- Ben

# Posted By Ben Forta | 6/22/11 5:53 PM

Is there a way to sign emails that go through a ColdFusion 9 server with DKIM authentication?

# Posted By Joe | 9/19/11 4:41 PM

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