Postfix manual - smtp-source(1)

    SMTP-SOURCE(1)                                                  SMTP-SOURCE(1)

    NAME
           smtp-source - parallelized SMTP/LMTP test generator

    SYNOPSIS
           smtp-source [options] [inet:]host[:port]

           smtp-source [options] unix:pathname

    DESCRIPTION
           smtp-source  connects to the named host and TCP port (default: port 25)
           and sends one or more messages to it, either sequentially or in  paral-
           lel. The program speaks either SMTP (default) or LMTP.  Connections can
           be made to UNIX-domain and IPv4 or IPv6 servers.  IPv4 and IPv6 are the
           default.

           Note:  this is an unsupported test program. No attempt is made to main-
           tain compatibility between successive versions.

           Arguments:

           -4     Connect to the server with IPv4. This option has no effect  when
                  Postfix is built without IPv6 support.

           -6     Connect  to  the  server with IPv6. This option is not available
                  when Postfix is built without IPv6 support.

           -A     Don't abort when the  server  sends  something  other  than  the
                  expected positive reply code.

           -c     Display  a running counter that is incremented each time an SMTP
                  DATA command completes.

           -C count
                  When a host sends RESET instead  of  SYN|ACK,  try  count  times
                  before giving up. The default count is 1. Specify a larger count
                  in order to work around a problem with TCP/IP stacks  that  send
                  RESET when the listen queue is full.

           -d     Don't  disconnect after sending a message; send the next message
                  over the same connection.

           -f from
                  Use the specified sender address (default: <foo@myhostname>).

           -F file
                  Send the pre-formatted message header and body in the  specified
                  file, while prepending '.' before lines that begin with '.', and
                  while appending CRLF after each line.

           -l length
                  Send length bytes  as  message  payload.  The  length  does  not
                  include message headers.

           -L     Speak LMTP rather than SMTP.

           -m message_count
                  Send the specified number of messages (default: 1).

           -M myhostname
                  Use  the specified hostname or [address] in the HELO command and
                  in the default sender and recipient addresses,  instead  of  the
                  machine hostname.

           -N     Prepend  a  non-repeating  sequence  number  to  each  recipient
                  address. This avoids the artificial 100% hit rate in the resolve
                  and rewrite client caches and exercises the trivial-rewrite dae-
                  mon, better approximating Postfix  performance  under  real-life
                  work-loads.

           -o     Old mode: don't send HELO, and don't send message headers.

           -r recipient_count
                  Send   the   specified  number  of  recipients  per  transaction
                  (default: 1).  Recipient names are  generated  by  prepending  a
                  number to the recipient address.

           -R interval
                  Wait for a random period of time 0 <= n <= interval between mes-
                  sages.  Suspending one thread does  not  affect  other  delivery
                  threads.

           -s session_count
                  Run  the specified number of SMTP sessions in parallel (default:
                  1).

           -S subject
                  Send mail with the named subject line (default: none).

           -t to  Use the specified recipient address (default: <foo@myhostname>).

           -T windowsize
                  Override  the default TCP window size. To work around broken TCP
                  window scaling implementations, specify a value > 0 and < 65536.

           -v     Make the program more verbose, for debugging purposes.

           -w interval
                  Wait  a fixed time between messages.  Suspending one thread does
                  not affect other delivery threads.

           [inet:]host[:port]
                  Connect via TCP to host host, port port.  The  default  port  is
                  smtp.

           unix:pathname
                  Connect to the UNIX-domain socket at pathname.

    BUGS
           No SMTP command pipelining support.

    SEE ALSO
           smtp-sink(1), SMTP/LMTP message dump

    LICENSE
           The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

    AUTHOR(S)
           Wietse Venema
           IBM T.J. Watson Research
           P.O. Box 704
           Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

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