smtpdropbox 1.0

Readme File for smtpdropbox

Smtpdropbox is a subclass of the smtpd module. It allows a user to set up an smtp daemon on a random port and send emails to it. When the daemon receives an email, it parses it and saves the parsed data structure to a file on the filesystem. This file is saved in JSON format (using the standard JSON library of Python) to help users easily recreate / use the data from the email.

Common uses for this module are for testing software that sends automated emails. If that software points to this smtp server, the emails can be trapped and parsed automatically, verifying that the email was sent and what is in the email.

FUTURE WORK

This library does not save file attachments (yet). An enhancement would be to make it save any/all attachments as individual files, hopefully named the same as they were in the email.

Also, future work includes adding the ability to save the mail message received as a plain text file as well as a json file. it currently does not do so, though it hasn’t been done yet.

PARAMETERS

When instantiating this class, you specify the boxname (really, this is localhost or 127.0.0.1) and port number to listen on, the boxname to forward messages to (as yet unimplemented), the names of the textfile and json file, and the number of messages to process before exiting (0=infinite).

The test has a complete example of usage.