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7SMTP-SOURCE(1)                                                  SMTP-SOURCE(1)
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9<b>NAME</b>
10       smtp-source - multi-threaded SMTP/LMTP test generator
11
12<b>SYNOPSIS</b>
13       <b>smtp-source</b> [<i>options</i>] [<b>inet:</b>]<i>host</i>[:<i>port</i>]
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15       <b>smtp-source</b> [<i>options</i>] <b>unix:</b><i>pathname</i>
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17<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
18       <b>smtp-source</b>  connects  to  the  named  <i>host</i>  and  TCP <i>port</i>
19       (default: port 25) and sends one or more messages  to  it,
20       either  sequentially  or  in  parallel. The program speaks
21       either SMTP (default) or LMTP.  Connections can be made to
22       UNIX-domain  and  IPv4 or IPv6 servers.  IPv4 and IPv6 are
23       the default.
24
25       Note: this is an unsupported test program. No  attempt  is
26       made  to  maintain  compatibility  between successive ver-
27       sions.
28
29       Arguments:
30
31       <b>-4</b>     Connect to the server with IPv4. This option has no
32              effect  when Postfix is built without IPv6 support.
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34       <b>-6</b>     Connect to the server with IPv6. This option is not
35              available  when  Postfix is built without IPv6 sup-
36              port.
37
38       <b>-A</b>     Don't abort when the server sends  something  other
39              than the expected positive reply code.
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41       <b>-c</b>     Display  a running counter that is incremented each
42              time an SMTP DATA command completes.
43
44       <b>-C</b> <i>count</i>
45              When a host sends RESET  instead  of  SYN|ACK,  try
46              <i>count</i>  times before giving up. The default count is
47              1. Specify a larger count in order to work around a
48              problem with TCP/IP stacks that send RESET when the
49              listen queue is full.
50
51       <b>-d</b>     Don't disconnect after sending a message; send  the
52              next message over the same connection.
53
54       <b>-f</b> <i>from</i>
55              Use   the   specified   sender   address  (default:
56              &lt;foo@<a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a>&gt;).
57
58       <b>-F</b> <i>file</i>
59              Send the pre-formatted message header and  body  in
60              the  specified  <i>file</i>,  while  prepending '.' before
61              lines that begin with '.', and while appending CRLF
62              after each line.
63
64       <b>-l</b> <i>length</i>
65              Send  <i>length</i>  bytes  as message payload. The length
66              does not include message headers.
67
68       <b>-L</b>     Speak LMTP rather than SMTP.
69
70       <b>-m</b> <i>message</i><b>_</b><i>count</i>
71              Send the specified number of messages (default: 1).
72
73       <b>-M</b> <i><a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a></i>
74              Use the specified hostname or [address] in the HELO
75              command and in the  default  sender  and  recipient
76              addresses, instead of the machine hostname.
77
78       <b>-N</b>     Prepend  a  non-repeating  sequence  number to each
79              recipient address. This avoids the artificial  100%
80              hit  rate  in the resolve and rewrite client caches
81              and exercises the  trivial-rewrite  daemon,  better
82              approximating  Postfix  performance under real-life
83              work-loads.
84
85       <b>-o</b>     Old mode: don't send HELO, and don't  send  message
86              headers.
87
88       <b>-r</b> <i>recipient</i><b>_</b><i>count</i>
89              Send  the specified number of recipients per trans-
90              action (default: 1).  Recipient names are generated
91              by prepending a number to the recipient address.
92
93       <b>-R</b> <i>interval</i>
94              Wait for a random period of time 0 &lt;= n &lt;= interval
95              between messages.  Suspending one thread  does  not
96              affect other delivery threads.
97
98       <b>-s</b> <i>session</i><b>_</b><i>count</i>
99              Run the specified number of SMTP sessions in paral-
100              lel (default: 1).
101
102       <b>-S</b> <i>subject</i>
103              Send mail with the  named  subject  line  (default:
104              none).
105
106       <b>-t</b> <i>to</i>  Use   the  specified  recipient  address  (default:
107              &lt;foo@<a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a>&gt;).
108
109       <b>-T</b> <i>windowsize</i>
110              Override the  default  TCP  window  size.  To  work
111              around  broken  TCP window scaling implementations,
112              specify a value &gt; 0 and &lt; 65536.
113
114       <b>-v</b>     Make the program more verbose, for  debugging  pur-
115              poses.
116
117       <b>-w</b> <i>interval</i>
118              Wait a fixed time between messages.  Suspending one
119              thread does not affect other delivery threads.
120
121       [<b>inet:</b>]<i>host</i>[:<i>port</i>]
122              Connect via  TCP  to  host  <i>host</i>,  port  <i>port</i>.  The
123              default port is <b>smtp</b>.
124
125       <b>unix:</b><i>pathname</i>
126              Connect to the UNIX-domain socket at <i>pathname</i>.
127
128<b>BUGS</b>
129       No SMTP command pipelining support.
130
131<b>SEE ALSO</b>
132       <a href="smtp-sink.1.html">smtp-sink(1)</a>, SMTP/LMTP message dump
133
134<b>LICENSE</b>
135       The  Secure  Mailer  license must be distributed with this
136       software.
137
138<b>AUTHOR(S)</b>
139       Wietse Venema
140       IBM T.J. Watson Research
141       P.O. Box 704
142       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
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