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E-MailRelay Readme
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Abstract
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E-MailRelay is a simple SMTP proxy and store-and-forward message transfer agent
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(MTA). When running as a proxy all e-mail messages can be passed through a
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user-defined program, such as a spam filter, which can drop, re-address or edit
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messages as they pass through. When running as a store-and-forward MTA incoming
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messages are stored in a local spool directory, and then forwarded to the next
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SMTP server on request.
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Because of its functional simplicity E-MailRelay is easy to configure, typically
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only requiring the address of the target SMTP server to be put on the command
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line.
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E-MailRelay can also run as a POP3 server. Messages received over SMTP can be
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automatically dropped into several independent POP3 mailboxes.
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C++ source code is available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X etc, and Windows.
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Distribution is under the GNU General Public License.
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Quick start
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To use E-MailRelay in store-and-forward mode use the "--as-server" switch to
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start the storage daemon in the background, and then trigger delivery of spooled
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messages by running with the "--as-client" switch and the address of the target
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host.
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For example, to start a storage daemon listening on port 10025 use a command like
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this:
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emailrelay --as-server --port 10025 --spool-dir /tmp
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And then to forward the spooled mail to "smarthost" run something like this:
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emailrelay --as-client smarthost:smtp --spool-dir /tmp
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To get behaviour more like a proxy you can add the "--poll" switch so that
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messages are forwarded continuously rather than on-demand. This example starts a
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store-and-forward server that forwards spooled-up e-mail every hour:
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emailrelay --as-server --poll 3600 --forward-to smarthost:smtp
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For a proxy server that forwards each message as it is being received, without
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any delay, you can use the "--as-proxy" mode:
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emailrelay --as-proxy smarthost:smtp
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If you want to edit or filter e-mail as it passes through the proxy then specify
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your pre-processor program with the "--filter" switch, something like this:
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emailrelay --as-proxy smarthost:smtp --filter /usr/local/bin/addsig
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To run E-MailRelay as a POP server without SMTP use "--pop" and "--no-smtp":
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emailrelay --pop --no-smtp --log --close-stderr
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The "emailrelay-submit" utility can be used to put messages straight into the
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spool directory so that the POP clients can fetch them.
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Note that by default E-MailRelay will always reject connections from remote
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machines. To allow connections from anywhere use the "--remote-clients" switch,
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but please consider the implications if your machine is connected to the
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internet.
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For more information on the command-line options refer to the reference guide
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or run:
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emailrelay --help --verbose
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Documentation
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-------------
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The following documentation is provided:
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* README -- this document
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* COPYING -- the GNU General Public License
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* INSTALL -- build & install instructions (including the GNU text)
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* AUTHORS -- authors, credits and additional copyrights
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* copyright -- main copyright and GPL reference
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* userguide.txt -- user guide
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* reference.txt -- reference document
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* ChangeLog -- change log for releases
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Source code documentation will be generated when building from source if
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"doxygen" is available.
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Configurations
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Recent releases were developed on Ubuntu Linux 7.04 using:
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* linux 2.6.20
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* gcc 4.1.2
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* autoconf 2.61
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and on Windows NT4 SP6 using:
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* MSVC 6.0 SP3
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The code was originally developed on SuSE Linux 7.1 using:
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* linux 2.4.10
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* gcc 2.95.3
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* glibc 2.2.4 (libc.so.6)
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* autoconf 2.52
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and on Windows 98 using:
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* MSVC 6.0
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Versions of the code have also been built successfully on:
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* MacOS X 10.3.9
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* FreeBSD on Intel hardware
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* Linux on Alpha hardware (Debian 2.2)
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* Linux on Sparc hardware
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* Linux on RS6000 PPC hardware
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* Solaris 8 using gcc on Sparc hardware
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* Solaris 8 using WorkShop 5.0
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* Linux using intel c++ 6.0
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* Windows NT 4.0 using MSVC 6.0
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* Windows NT 4.0 using Cygwin (DLL 1.3.22) and gcc 3.2
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* Windows NT 4.0 using MinGW 2.0.0 and gcc 3.2
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* Windows XP using MinGW 3.1.0 gcc 3.4.2
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Feedback
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--------
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Please feel free to e-mail the author at
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"mailto:graeme_walker@users.sourceforge.net" or the SourceForge mailing list
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"mailto:emailrelay-help@lists.sourceforge.net".
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