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haraka-secwrap
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npm -g install Haraka
haraka -i haraka-server-config
cd ./haraka-server-config
npm install snoj/haraka-secwrap
#enable secwrap
echo haraka-secwrap >> config/plugins
#create and edit config/secwrap. Urls can be whatever you want them to be. (Uses lodash _.template().)
{
"userlookup": "http://localhost:8025/from/${ mail_from }/to/${ rcpt_to }"
,"storage": "http://localhost:8025/mailbox/${ mailbox }"
,"local": { //for self contained setups
"a.example.com": {
"key": "====KEY==== blahblahblahblahblahblah =====END KEY===="
,"forward": "joeblack@b.example.com"
,"hidesender": true
}
,"Megan@c.example.com": {
"key": "====KEY==== blahblahblahblahblahblah =====END KEY===="
,"forward": "MeganMcExample@b.example.com"
,"hidesender": true
}
}
}
#create http(s) server using express or restify to handle urls from config/secwrap
#run
haraka -c .
{
"key": "user's public PGP/GPG key",
"mailbox": "optional. if set, secwrap will use the storage url. can be any sort of identifying string.",
"forward": "optional. if set, encrypted mail will be sent to this address."
"hidesender": "optional. truthy. hides the address the original email was sent from."
}
JSON sent to the REST server
{
"mailbox": "id given by the user lookup data"
"mail_from": "either the actual sender or gibberish depending on hidesender"
"rcpt_to": "the email address of the recipient"
"message": "encrypted message"
"keythumbprint": "Thumbprint of the key used to encrypt the message"
}
Mailvelope Chrome/Firefox addon to encrypt/decrypt text in the browser.
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The npm package haraka-secwrap receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, haraka-secwrap popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that haraka-secwrap demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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