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NAME

       smtp-sink - parallelized SMTP/LMTP test server

SYNOPSIS

       smtp-sink [options] [inet:][host]:port backlog

       smtp-sink [options] unix:pathname backlog

DESCRIPTION

       smtp-sink  listens  on  the named host (or address) and port.  It takes SMTP messages from
       the network and throws them away.  The purpose  is  to  measure  client  performance,  not
       protocol compliance.

       smtp-sink  may also be configured to capture each mail delivery transaction to file. Since
       disk latencies are large compared to network delays, this mode of operation can reduce the
       maximal performance by several orders of magnitude.

       Connections  can  be  accepted on IPv4 or IPv6 endpoints, or on UNIX-domain sockets.  IPv4
       and IPv6 are the default.  This program is the complement of the smtp-source(1) program.

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

       Arguments:

       -4     Support  IPv4  only.  This  option has no effect when Postfix is built without IPv6
              support.

       -6     Support IPv6 only. This option is not available when Postfix is built without  IPv6
              support.

       -8     Do not announce 8BITMIME support.

       -a     Do not announce SASL authentication support.

       -A delay
              Wait  delay  seconds  after  responding  to DATA, then abort prematurely with a 550
              reply status.  Do not read further input from the client; this  is  an  attempt  to
              block  the  client  before  it  sends  ".".   Specify  a  zero delay value to abort
              immediately.

       -b soft-bounce-reply
              Use soft-bounce-reply for soft reject responses.  The default reply is  "450  4.3.0
              Error: command failed".

       -B hard-bounce-reply
              Use  hard-bounce-reply  for hard reject responses.  The default reply is "500 5.3.0
              Error: command failed".

       -c     Display running counters that are updated whenever an SMTP  session  ends,  a  QUIT
              command is executed, or when "." is received.

       -C     Disable XCLIENT support.

       -d dump-template
              Dump  each  mail  transaction  to  a  single-message  file whose name is created by
              expanding  the  dump-template  via  strftime(3)  and  appending   a   pseudo-random
              hexadecimal number (example: "%Y%m%d%H/%M." expands into "2006081203/05.809a62e3").
              If  the  template  contains  "/"  characters,  missing  directories   are   created
              automatically.  The message dump format is described below.

              Note:  this  option  keeps  one  capture  file  open  for every mail transaction in
              progress.

       -D dump-template
              Append mail transactions to a multi-message dump file  whose  name  is  created  by
              expanding  the  dump-template  via  strftime(3).   If  the  template  contains  "/"
              characters, missing directories are created automatically.  The message dump format
              is described below.

              Note:  this  option  keeps  one  capture  file  open  for every mail transaction in
              progress.

       -e     Do not announce ESMTP support.

       -E     Do not announce ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES support.

       -f command,command,...
              Reject the specified commands with a hard (5xx) error code.   This  option  implies
              -p.

              Examples  of  commands  are  CONNECT,  HELO, EHLO, LHLO, MAIL, RCPT, VRFY, DATA, .,
              RSET, NOOP, and QUIT. Separate command names by white  space  or  commas,  and  use
              quotes to protect white space from the shell. Command names are case-insensitive.

       -F     Disable XFORWARD support.

       -h hostname
              Use  hostname in the SMTP greeting, in the HELO response, and in the EHLO response.
              The default hostname is "smtp-sink".

       -H delay
              Delay the first read operation after receiving DATA (time in seconds). Combine with
              a  large  test  message and a small TCP window size (see the -T option) to test the
              Postfix client write_wait() implementation.

       -L     Enable LMTP instead of SMTP.

       -m count (default: 256)
              An upper bound on the maximal number of  simultaneous  connections  that  smtp-sink
              will handle. This prevents the process from running out of file descriptors. Excess
              connections will stay queued in the TCP/IP stack.

       -M count
              Terminate after receiving count messages.

       -n count
              Terminate after count sessions.

       -N     Do not announce support for DSN.

       -p     Do not announce support for ESMTP command pipelining.

       -P     Change the server greeting so that it appears to come through a CISCO  PIX  system.
              Implies -e.

       -q command,command,...
              Disconnect (without replying) after receiving one of the specified commands.

              Examples  of  commands  are  CONNECT,  HELO, EHLO, LHLO, MAIL, RCPT, VRFY, DATA, .,
              RSET, NOOP, and QUIT. Separate command names by white  space  or  commas,  and  use
              quotes to protect white space from the shell. Command names are case-insensitive.

       -Q command,command,...
              Send a 421 reply and disconnect after receiving one of the specified commands.

              Examples  of  commands  are  CONNECT,  HELO, EHLO, LHLO, MAIL, RCPT, VRFY, DATA, .,
              RSET, NOOP, and QUIT. Separate command names by white  space  or  commas,  and  use
              quotes to protect white space from the shell. Command names are case-insensitive.

       -r command,command,...
              Reject  the  specified  commands with a soft (4xx) error code.  This option implies
              -p.

              Examples of commands are CONNECT, HELO, EHLO, LHLO,  MAIL,  RCPT,  VRFY,  DATA,  .,
              RSET,  NOOP,  and  QUIT.  Separate  command names by white space or commas, and use
              quotes to protect white space from the shell. Command names are case-insensitive.

       -R root-directory
              Change the process root directory to the specified location.  This option  requires
              super-user privileges. See also the -u option.

       -s command,command,...
              Log the named commands to syslogd.

              Examples  of  commands  are  CONNECT,  HELO, EHLO, LHLO, MAIL, RCPT, VRFY, DATA, .,
              RSET, NOOP, and QUIT. Separate command names by white  space  or  commas,  and  use
              quotes to protect white space from the shell. Command names are case-insensitive.

       -S start-string
              An optional string that is prepended to each message that is written to a dump file
              (see the dump file format description below). The following C escape sequences  are
              supported:  \a  (bell),  \b  (backspace), \f (formfeed), \n (newline), \r (carriage
              return), \t (horizontal tab), \v (vertical tab), \ddd (up to  three  octal  digits)
              and \\ (the backslash character).

       -t timeout (default: 100)
              Limit  the  time  for receiving a command or sending a response.  The time limit is
              specified in seconds.

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

       -u username
              Switch  to  the  specified  user  privileges  after  opening the network socket and
              optionally changing the process root directory. This option is  required  when  the
              process runs with super-user privileges. See also the -R option.

       -v     Show the SMTP conversations.

       -w delay
              Wait delay seconds before responding to a DATA command.

       -W command:delay[:odds]
              Wait  delay  seconds  before  responding  to command.  If odds is also specified (a
              number between 1-99 inclusive), wait for a random multiple  of  delay.  The  random
              multiplier  is equal to the number of times the program needs to roll a dice with a
              range of 0..99 inclusive, before the dice produces a result greater than  or  equal
              to odds.

       [inet:][host]:port
              Listen  on network interface host (default: any interface) TCP port port. Both host
              and port may be specified in numeric or symbolic form.

       unix:pathname
              Listen on the UNIX-domain socket at pathname.

       backlog
              The maximum length of the queue of pending connections, as defined by the listen(2)
              system call.

DUMP FILE FORMAT

       Each  dumped  message  contains  a  sequence  of  text  lines, terminated with the newline
       character. The sequence of information is as follows:

       •      The optional string specified with the -S option.

       •      The smtp-sink generated headers as documented below.

       •      The message header and body as received from the SMTP client.

       •      An empty line.

       The format of the smtp-sink generated headers is as follows:

       X-Client-Addr: text
              The client IP address without enclosing  [].  An  IPv6  address  is  prefixed  with
              "ipv6:". This record is always present.

       X-Client-Proto: text
              The client protocol: SMTP, ESMTP or LMTP. This record is always present.

       X-Helo-Args: text
              The  arguments  of  the  last  HELO  or  EHLO  command  before  this  mail delivery
              transaction. This record is present only if the client sent a recognizable HELO  or
              EHLO command before the DATA command.

       X-Mail-Args: text
              The arguments of the MAIL command that started this mail delivery transaction. This
              record is present exactly once.

       X-Rcpt-Args: text
              The arguments of an RCPT command within this mail delivery  transaction.  There  is
              one record for each RCPT command, and they are in the order as sent by the client.

       Received: text
              A  message  header for compatibility with mail processing software. This three-line
              header marks the end of the headers provided by  smtp-sink,  and  is  formatted  as
              follows:

              from helo ([addr])
                     The  HELO or EHLO command argument and client IP address.  If the client did
                     not send HELO or EHLO, the client IP address is used instead.

              by host (smtp-sink) with proto id random;
                     The hostname  specified  with  the  -h  option,  the  client  protocol  (see
                     X-Client-Proto  above),  and  the  pseudo-random  portion of the per-message
                     capture file name.

              time-stamp
                     A time stamp as defined in RFC 2822.

SEE ALSO

       smtp-source(1), SMTP/LMTP message generator

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

       Wietse Venema
       Google, Inc.
       111 8th Avenue
       New York, NY 10011, USA

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