Dear John,
I've received the following wishlist request for swaks:
On 2006-02-23 Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: swaks
> Version: 0+20050625.8-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Hi,
> please add an option to just read the message body from stdin, while
> message headers are still generated by swaks.
> This would enable things like
> < eicar.com swaks --to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> to quickly test virus scanners.
I have also missed that once or twice, too (for gtube or eicar).
Attached is a patch for
----
-b, --body
Message body to be used instead of the default 'This is a test
message'.
----
however it does not support reading '-' for reading from stdin, I did
not want to butcher swaks with my weak perl-foo. ;-)
thanks, cu andreas
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--- /usr/bin/swaks 2005-06-26 08:21:45.000000000 +0200
+++ swaks 2006-02-25 16:45:35.385234456 +0100
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
'h|helo|ehlo:s' => \$O{mail_helo}, # (h)elo string
's|server:s' => \$O{mail_server}, # (s)erver to use
'p|port:i' => \$O{mail_port}, # (p)ort to use
+ 'b|body:s' => \$O{body}, # override message body text ('\n'
for newlines)
'd|data:s' => \$O{mail_data}, # (d)ata portion ('\n' for newlines)
'timeout:s' => \$O{timeout}, # timeout for each trans (def 30s)
'g' => \$O{data_on_stdin}, # (g)et data on stdin
@@ -967,10 +968,12 @@
$n{data} = $o->{mail_data} || interact("Data: ", '^.*$');
}
}
+ $n{body} ||= $o->{body}
+ || 'This is a test mailing';
$n{data} ||= $fconf->{DATA}
|| 'Date: %D\nTo: %T\nFrom: %F\nSubject: test %D\n'
."X-Mailer: swaks v$p_version jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks".'\n\n'
- .'This is a test mailing\n';
+ ."$n{body}".'\n';
# The -g option trumps all other methods of getting the data
$n{data} = join('', <STDIN>) if ($o->{data_on_stdin});
if (!$o->{no_data_fixup}) {
@@ -1189,6 +1192,10 @@
Use argument as argument to SMTP EHLO/HELO command, or prompt use if no
argument is specified. Overridden by -l token HELO. If unspecified, swaks
uses best guess at DNS hostname of local host.
+=item -b, --body
+
+Message body to be used instead of the default 'This is a test message'.
+
=item -d, --data
Use argument as DATA portion of SMTP transaction, or prompt user if no
argument specified. Overridden by -l token DATA.
