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perl API for eboks.dk

This is perl interface for http://eboks.dk/, Danish national email system.

Included a simple POP server for proxying e-boks for read-only mail access and a simple downloader.

You shall need your CPR# and password. You can get the password from the e-Boks website. Here is a video-guide on how to get it (in Danish).

For the POP3 login, the username is be your CPR code, such as f.ex: 0123456-7890. The password is your mobile pincode.

Installation

One-time NemID registration

For each user, you will need to go through one-time registration through you personal NemID signature. eboks-authenticate will start a small webserver on http://localhost:9999/, where you will need to connect to with a browser. There, it will ask for your CPR, your password (from e-boks Menu/Mobiladgang), and will try to show a standard NemID window, that you will need to log in, and then confirm that indeed you to allow the login to eBoks. If that works, the script will send that to the eBoks server so it recognizes your future logins from a pseudo device (you would see it as Net-Eboks in Menu/Mobiladgang/Aktiverede enheder).

This step should be done one time only, for each user, not for each installation.

Security note: There are no security concerns others than the usual suspects when one uses NemID logins by other means. To be extra paranoid though, use only two-factor authentication through NemID app, not through one-time pads, as the app shows who is the issuer of the login request when asking for its confirmation. Make sure the requestor is eBoks, not your bank :)

Operations

Download your mails as a mailbox

Note: You probably don't need it, this script is mostly for testing that the access works.

On command line, type eboks-dump, enter your passwords, and wait until it downloads all into eboks.mbox. Use your favourite mail agent to read it.

Use eboks.dk as a POP3 server

You may want this setup if you don't have a dedicated server, or don't want to spam your mail by eBoks. You can run everything on a single desktop.

  1. On command line, type eboks2pop

  2. Connect your mail client to POP3 server at localhost, where username is your CPR code such as f.ex: 0123456-7890 and password is your mobile pincode.

Use on mail server

This is the setup I use on my own remote server, where I connect to using email clients to read my mail.

  1. Create a startup script, f.ex. for FreeBSD see example/eboks2pop.freebsd, and for Debian/Ubuntu see examples/eboks2pop.debian

  2. Install procmail and fetchmail. Look into example/procmailrc.local and and examples/fetchmail (the latter needs to have permissions 0600).

  3. Add a cron job f.ex.

2 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1

to fetch mails once a day. Only new mails will be fetched. This will also work for more than one user.

Automated forwarding

You might want just to forward your eBoks messages to your mail address. The setup is basically same as in previous section, but see examples/procmailrc.forward.simple instead.

The problem you might encounter is that the module generates mails as originated from noreply@e-boks.dk and f.ex. Gmail won't accept that due to DMARC. See if rewriting the sender as in examples/procmail.forward.srs helps.

Enjoy!