swaks Command Examples
Swiss Army Knife SMTP, the all-purpose SMTP transaction tester. More information: https://github.com/jetmore/swaks/blob/develop/doc/base.pod.
- Deliver a standard test email to
user@example.comon port 25 oftest-server.example.net:
swaks --to {{user@example.com}} --server {{test-server.example.net}}
- Deliver a standard test email, requiring CRAM-MD5 authentication as user
me@example.com. An "X-Test" header will be added to the email body:
swaks --to {{user@example.com}} --from {{me@example.com}} --auth {{CRAM-MD5}} --auth-user {{me@example.com}} --header-X-Test "{{test_email}}"
- Test a virus scanner using EICAR in an attachment. Don't show the message DATA part:
swaks -t {{user@example.com}} --attach - --server {{test-server.example.com}} --suppress-data {{path/to/eicar.txt}}
- Test a spam scanner using GTUBE in the body of an email, routed via the MX records for
example.com:
swaks --to {{user@example.com}} --body {{path/to/gtube_file}}
- Deliver a standard test email to
user@example.comusing the LMTP protocol via a UNIX domain socket file:
swaks --to {{user@example.com}} --socket {{/var/lda.sock}} --protocol {{LMTP}}