bryancs/swaks repository overview

⁠Swaks - Swiss Army Knife for SMTP

Swaks is a featureful, flexible, scriptable, transaction-oriented SMTP test tool written and maintained by John Jetmore⁠. It is free to use and licensed under the GNU GPLv2. Features include:

• SMTP extensions including TLS, authentication, pipelining, PROXY, PRDR, and XCLIENT
• Protocols including SMTP, ESMTP, and LMTP
• Transports including UNIX-domain sockets, internet-domain sockets (IPv4 and IPv6), and pipes to spawned processes
• Completely scriptable configuration, with option specification via environment variables, configuration files, and command line

The official project page is https://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/⁠.

⁠Download

The latest version of Swaks is 20201014.0 (announcement⁠), which can be downloaded as a package⁠ or a standalone script⁠.

See the installation page⁠ for details on installing in multiple environments.

There is also a versions page⁠ which lists every released version of Swaks, complete with changelogs and download links.

⁠Docker

Usage:

docker run --rm -ti bryancs/swaks [OPTIONS]

Example:

# test
docker run --rm -ti bryancs/swaks \
  -f [email protected] \
  -t [email protected] \
  -s localhost

# help
docker run --rm bryancs/swaks --help

⁠Documentation

The reference documentation from the latest release, which includes quick-start examples, is available as plain text⁠ and rendered⁠. The documentation from each release is available from the versions page⁠. There is also an Occasionally Asked Questions⁠ document.

⁠Communications

Feedback and meaningful questions about how to use Swaks are welcome. However, since Swaks is only maintained by a single person as a hobby, there is no guarantee of a timely response.

⁠Release Notification

• Send a mail⁠. You will receive notifications of new releases via email. No other email will ever be sent to this list.
• Follow @SwaksSMTP⁠ on twitter. Very rarely contains non-release content.
• Blog⁠. Swaks-specific blog category (RSS available⁠). Very rarely contains non-release content.

⁠Help and Feedback

• Issues⁠ - Open an issue for feature requests and bugs.
• Contact the author⁠ - suggestion, tips, patches, feedback, critiques always welcome.

⁠License

GNU GPLv2⁠