Swaks Release 20240103.0 Available

A new version of Swaks is available for download.

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Swaks Release 20201014.0 Available

A new version of Swaks is available for download. This is exclusively a bugfix release addressing issues in the previous release.

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Swaks Release 20201010.0 Available

A new version of Swaks is available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release.

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Swaks Release 20190914.0 Available

A new version of Swaks is available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release.

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Swaks Release 20181104.0 Available

A new version of Swaks is available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release.

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Swaks Release 20170101.0 Available

A new version of swaks is available for download. This release contains a decent number of tweaks, bug fixes, and reworks. It also features Per-Recipient Data Response (PRDR) and PROXY protocol support.

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Swaks Release 20130209.0 Available

A new version of swaks is currently available for download. This release contains a decent number of tweaks, bug fixes, and reworks. It features new support for the XCLIENT testing protocol (which originates in postfix-land but is in use elsewhere), and quite a few enhancements to the SSL/TLS subsystem.

In the pipeline for the next release of swaks are support for PRDR, a rework of the interactive IO system, and a reasonable header encoding system. If you have a feature you’ve wanted in Swaks, now would be a good time to ask!

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Swaks Release 20120320.0 Available

Update 2018-11-06: If you came here because of the announcement about version 20181104.0, the wrong URL was used in the announcement. The correct location for the new release is https://www.jetmore.org/john/blog/2018/11/swaks-release-20181104-0-available/

A new version of swaks is currently available for download.

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Swaks IPv6 Support – Initial Draft

I’ve put together an initial attempt at IPv6 support in swaks. If this sort of thing interests you, please take a look at what I have so far and let me know what you think.

LINK REMOVED – this was a development release and the changes have been incorporated in official releases. Please see the project home page at http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ for the latest release.

There is no documentation included yet, but the only real change to the documentation is the addition of the -4 and -6 options to force IPv4 or IPv6. There are a few unrelated tweaks since the last release, but nothing that needs documentation at this point.

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About The Name Swaks…

I began developing the tool that would become “swaks” on December 19, 2001.  The initial version was mostly just an adapted version of the sendpage my coworker Jamie Hill had written for simple SNPP transactions.  At that time the tool was called “vmail”, which meant something like visual- or visualize-mail.

On November 11, 2003, I posted a link to vmail on the exim-users mailing list.  I received lots of constructive responses, including one note that the name vmail was very generic, and also in use by another project (I wish I could remember who noted that, but I can’t find it in the mailing list archives).

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