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roundhouse/0.6 (beta)
«An SMTP Multiplexer»


Description & Usage ° Installation & Notes ° License & Support


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Description

This is an SMTP multiplexer, which takes the input from an SMTP client connection and copies it to one or more SMTP servers. Intended as means to debug and test different mail server configurations using a production mail server's live data stream.

Usage

roundhouse [-avw] [-g group] [-p port] [-t timeout] [-u user] server ...
-a
Run as a foreground application and log to standard error. The default is to start as a daemon or service in the background.
-g group
Run as this group. Only root can specify this. Ignored on Windows.
-p port
The port the server listens on. The default is 25.
-t timeout
The client I/O timeout in seconds, 0 for indefinite. The default is 300 seconds. This value is also used for the SMTP server I/O timeout divided by the number of servers specified.
-u user
Run as this user. Only root can specify this. Ignored on Windows (for now).
-v
Enable verbose debug log messages.
-w
Toggle add/remove Windows service. For Unix this is a no-op.
server ...
One or more SMTP servers specified as a unix domain socket path or as a host[,port] specifier. The first server specified is the primary SMTP server used exclusively for STARTTLS connections.

Installation

  1. Download:

    roundhouse/0.6 md5sum Change Log
    LibSnert md5sum Change Log

Notes

  • Currently tested platforms:

    Cobalt Qube 1 with Linux RH 5.1 (mips 2.0.34 kernel); Windows XP Pro SP2;

  • When using Roundhouse on the same server as two or more Sendmail daemons, each Sendmail instance must be listening on a port other than 25, which Roundhouse will be listening on. Either modify each daemon's sendmail.mc/cf file or specify the command line option -ODaemonPortOptions=Port=NNN. For example: 

    	# sendmail -ODaemonPortOptions=Port=26
	# sendmail -ODaemonPortOptions=Port=27

    Then start Roundhouse to multiplex to the two local Sendmail daemons: 

    	# roundhouse 127.0.0.1:26 ::1,27 other.host.example.com

    Note that Roundhouse supports IPv6 addresses, but in order to distinguish between the address and the port, a comma or other punctuation character must be used instead of a colon.

  • Roundhouse does not currently multiplex STARTTLS sessions. Instead it forwards the STARTTLS and the remainder of the input stream to the first SMTP server in the server list. This should be your primary SMTP server.

  • Roundhouse supports AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN. An AUTH LOGIN is converted to an AUTH PLAIN before being forwarded to the SMTP server list.

License Agreement 1.4

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