mailtest1

Simple smtp sending for diagnostics

Usage

mailtest --host host.example.com --rcptto [email protected] [send_options ...] [additional recipients ...]

Options: --help

brief help message --debug

enable debugging

host to connect to --rcptto recipient

recipient for message --helo machine

machine name for EHLO --vrfy request VRFY of recipient --expn request EXPN of recipient --mailfrom from

use as MAIL FROM value --from822 from

content From: --port port

port to connect to --body generate body --include_options

include Options in body --include_headers

include generated headers in body --tls perform TLS on connect --nostarttls do no attempt STARTTLS --stricttls Enable strict verification on TLS connection --tlsargs arg=value [,arg=value]

well-known path --output file

Output file to receive well-known data

Options

--help: Print a brief help message and exits.

-d, --debug: Enables debugging, outpus additional information whilst processing requests.

-h, --host=host: Specifies the host to connect to. Must be specified and must be IP-resolvable.

-m, --ehlo=machine: Specified the machine name to use as the EHLO value. Defaults to the fully-qualified name of the host running the command.

-r, --rcptto=recipient: Specifies the recipient of message. This is used as the RCPT TO value.

-v, --vrfy: Uses the recipient parameter for the value in a VRFY request. This disables the sending of an email.

-e, --expn: Uses the recipient parameter for the value in an EXPN request. This disables the sending of an email.

-f, --mailfrom=from_address: Specified the value to use in the MAIL FROM command. Defaults to the current username at the FQDN of the machine -m unless the -B option is used.

-u, --from822=from_user: Specified the value to use in the message headers. Defaults to the -f from_address value unless the -B option is used.

-B, --bounce: Replace the --mailfrom from_address with \<\> and the --from833 from_user with mailer-daemon@host where the host is the value of --ehlo machine

-p, --port=port: Specified the port to connect to on the specified host. Defaults to port 25 unless -S is given in which case it defaults to 465.

-S, --tls: Specifies that TLS be used directly on the connection prior to any SMTP commands. Changes the connection port to 465 unless it has been explicitly provided. Disables any attempts at STARTTLS.

-s, --nostarttls: Disables attempting STARTTLS if offered. Disabled by use of -S.

--stricttls: Enables strict verification of the TLS connection. Sets the underlying SSL option SSL_verify_mode to 1/SSL_VERIFY_PEER rather than 0/SSL_VERIFY_NONE. Since the aim of this tool is to test the SMTP protocol behaviour and not the TLS behaviour the decision was made to default the SSL_verify_mode to 0/SSL_VERIFY_NONE.

--sslargs=argname=argvalue[,argname=argvalue...]: Allow full control over underlying SSL options. Overrides --stricttls. See the documentation for IO::Socket::SSL for further details.

--sslargs SSL_verifycn_name=certname.example.com

-b, --body: Generate a body for the message being sent.

-O, --include-options: Include details of options used in the message body.

-H, --include-headers: Include a copy of the generated headers in the message body.

-w, --wellknown=well-known-path: Provides the path value for a WELLKNOWN command.

-W, --output=output_file: Provides the output file where the WELLKNOWN data should be stored.

Overview

mailtest is a simple utility for testing SMTP connections. It is designed to debug endpoints and not for full email generation.

It support a number of basic operations, SEND, VRFY, EXPN, WELLKNOWN.

Compatibility

"mailtest" only requires modules that should be in all normal distributions.

Usage

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