Testing SMTP servers with SWAKS

Posted by tripwire45 on Apr 6, 2009 2:20 PM EDT
Debian-Administration.org; By Steve Kemp
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When changing software configuration it is always a good idea to test things as thoroughly as you can. In the case of SMTP it is generally possible to test things offline pretty easily, and then perform simple tests via a manual telnet - but the SWAKS tool makes SMTP-testing even simpler.

SMTP (email) servers are generally pretty simple to setup, but there are a lot of cases where the configuration becomes non-trivial, especially when you're dealing with handling mail for multiple domains and SMTP-time testing.

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