On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:02 PM, John Jetmore <[email protected]> wrote: >> Examples: >> ./bh.exp 64.14.201.8 [email protected] [email protected] >> ./bh.exp 64.14.201.8 [email protected] [email protected] /tmp/1.eml
With permission, bringing this conversation back onto the Exim mailing lists. (Kinda not) sorry for the cross-posts. > Ordinarily I would have checked this out and let it slip by because > heterogeneous toolsets are useful (see also Tony Finch's smtpc), but > since you specifically mention swaks, I wanted to ask why you wrote > something in expect that doesn't seem to do more than swaks does, > except possibly provide a simple command line for the task at hand. Providing a simple commandline for the task at hand was the goal, yes. I got tired of copying and pasting SMTP conversation arguments to test things. > Specifically, the --pipe argument to swaks allows you access to all of > swaks' normal options (tls, authentication, etc) via a spawned pipe > instead of a inet socket. Your two example command lines would be > written like this: > > swaks --pipe '/usr/sbin/exim -bh 64.14.201.8' -f [email protected] -t > [email protected] > swaks --pipe '/usr/sbin/exim -bh 64.14.201.8' -f [email protected] -t > [email protected] --data /tmp/1.eml > > If you didn't know about --pipe, I hope this is useful. If you did Very much so! I did not know about --pipe, and I did not know about --data either (I simply had not looked beyond the simple uses I had performed in the past). So to be perfectly clear, swaks already does EXACTLY what I spent time constructing with expect. And I assume that swaks, if it receives a 4xx or 5xx at the EHLO, MAIL, or RCPT stages, will detect it and exit the smtp conversation at that point. I'll test to make sure. > know about --pipe but chose not to use it because it was deficient > somehow, I'd love to hear details - always looking for ways to make > swaks better. If you just felt like writing a script, please feel > free to tell me to mind my own business! It was simply a lack of awareness of swaks capabilities on my part. Now that I know, I will use that instead :-) Thanks John! ...Todd -- The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0. If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want, send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
