Create a new SMTPServer object, which binds to local address localaddr. It will treat remoteaddr as an upstream SMTP relayer. It inherits from asyncore.dispatcher, and so will insert itself into asyncore‘s event loop on instantiation.

process_message(peer, mailfrom, rcpttos, data)

Raise NotImplementedError exception. Override this in subclasses to do something useful with this message. Whatever was passed in the constructor as remoteaddr will be available as the _remoteaddr attribute. peer is the remote host’s address, mailfrom is the envelope originator, rcpttos are the envelope recipients and data is a string containing the contents of the e-mail (which should be in RFC 2822 format).

channel_class

Override this in subclasses to use a custom SMTPChannel for managing SMTP clients.

Create a new debugging server. Arguments are as per SMTPServer. Messages will be discarded, and printed on stdout.

Create a new pure proxy server. Arguments are as per SMTPServer. Everything will be relayed to remoteaddr. Note that running this has a good chance to make you into an open relay, so please be careful.

Create a new pure proxy server. Arguments are as per SMTPServer. Everything will be relayed to remoteaddr, unless local mailman configurations knows about an address, in which case it will be handled via mailman. Note that running this has a good chance to make you into an open relay, so please be careful.

Create a new SMTPChannel object which manages the communication between the server and a single SMTP client.

To use a custom SMTPChannel implementation you need to override the SMTPServer.channel_class of your SMTPServer.

The SMTPChannel has the following instance variables:

smtp_server

Holds the SMTPServer that spawned this channel.

conn

Holds the socket object connecting to the client.

addr

Holds the address of the client, the second value returned by socket.accept()

received_lines

Holds a list of the line strings (decoded using UTF-8) received from the client. The lines have their “rn” line ending translated to “n”.

smtp_state

Holds the current state of the channel. This will be either COMMAND initially and then DATA after the client sends a “DATA” line.

seen_greeting

Holds a string containing the greeting sent by the client in its “HELO”.

mailfrom

Holds a string containing the address identified in the “MAIL FROM:” line from the client.

rcpttos

Holds a list of strings containing the addresses identified in the “RCPT TO:” lines from the client.

received_data

Holds a string containing all of the data sent by the client during the DATA state, up to but not including the terminating “rn.rn”.

fqdn

Holds the fully-qualified domain name of the server as returned by socket.getfqdn().

peer

Holds the name of the client peer as returned by conn.getpeername() where conn is conn.

The SMTPChannel operates by invoking methods named smtp_<command> upon reception of a command line from the client. Built into the base SMTPChannel class are methods for handling the following commands (and responding to them appropriately):