Cloudflare Developers•13mo ago

400 Bad Request from MailChannels

I am following the following blog post in setting up MailChannels: https://blog.bitgate.cz/send-email-at-scale-for-free-with-cloudflare-workers/ I used the following code:

export default {
  async fetch(request, env) {
    if (request.method !== 'POST') {
      return new Response('Method not supported', { status: 405 })
    }

    const token = request.headers.get('Authorization')?.replace('Bearer ', '')
    if (token !== env.TOKEN) {
      return new Response('Unauthorized', { status: 403 })
    }

    const body = await request.json()
    const email_body = {
      personalizations: [{
        to: body.to,
        // dkim_domain: 'example.com',
        // dkim_selector: 'mail1',
        // dkim_private_key: env.DKIM_PRIVATE_KEY,
      }],
      from: body.from,
      subject: body.subject,
      content: body.content,
      // headers: {
      //   'List-Unsubscribe': '<mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>',
      // },
    }

    const email_request = new Request('https://api.mailchannels.net/tx/v1/send', {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
      body: JSON.stringify(email_body),
    })
    const res = await fetch(email_request)
    return new Response(`${res.status} ${res.statusText}`, { status: res.status })
  },
}

export default {
  async fetch(request, env) {
    if (request.method !== 'POST') {
      return new Response('Method not supported', { status: 405 })
    }

    const token = request.headers.get('Authorization')?.replace('Bearer ', '')
    if (token !== env.TOKEN) {
      return new Response('Unauthorized', { status: 403 })
    }

    const body = await request.json()
    const email_body = {
      personalizations: [{
        to: body.to,
        // dkim_domain: 'example.com',
        // dkim_selector: 'mail1',
        // dkim_private_key: env.DKIM_PRIVATE_KEY,
      }],
      from: body.from,
      subject: body.subject,
      content: body.content,
      // headers: {
      //   'List-Unsubscribe': '<mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>',
      // },
    }

    const email_request = new Request('https://api.mailchannels.net/tx/v1/send', {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
      body: JSON.stringify(email_body),
    })
    const res = await fetch(email_request)
    return new Response(`${res.status} ${res.statusText}`, { status: res.status })
  },
}

The request from mailchannels keeps returning with "400 Bad Request".
I did create the create the Domail Lockdown as mentioned here: https://support.mailchannels.com/hc/en-us/articles/16918954360845-Secure-your-domain-name-against-spoofing-with-Domain-Lockdown- Would anyone have any suggestions on getting this to work?

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3 Replies

James•13mo ago

Not a direct solution to your issue, but I would recommend avoiding MailChannels and using some other service like Amazon SES, Sendgrid, Postmark, etc. There are a lot of security implications and their responses to the situation have been very undesirable. Further reading: - https://github.com/byt3bl33d3r/SpamChannel - https://byt3bl33d3r.substack.com/p/7fc21c89-4744-4a95-8095-cd080b498ded - https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20presentations/byt3bl33d3r%20-%20SpamChannel%20Spoofing%20Emails%20From%202%20Million%20Domains%20and%20Virtually%20Becoming%20Satan.pdf

Tin Cap•13mo ago

That's interesting. Does that vulnerability impact all domains on Cloudflare or just those using MailChannels?

James•13mo ago

It's not Cloudflare, purely just MailChannels, their SPF, and poor handling (or lack thereof) of any sender verification.

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400 Bad Request from MailChannels