Updated 2012-03-20: The links below still work for the 20111230.0 release, but this release is no longer current. If you are not specifically looking for the 20111230.0 release, please see the project home page at http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ for the latest release.

A new version of swaks is currently available for download.

Downloads:

• Project Page: http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
• v20111230.0 distribution: http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/swaks-20111230.0.tar.gz
• v20111230.0 script only: http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/swaks-20111230.0/swaks
• v20111230.0 reference: http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/swaks-20111230.0/doc/ref.txt

New Features:

• Added –output-file family of options to capture some or all output without requiring shell redirection
• Added –protect-prompt option to protect “sensitive” user input (currently only auth passwords)
• Added –auth-hide-password to replace recoverable passwords in SMTP session output with a dummy string
• Added –auth-extra to have a single interface to pass non-standard authentication options into swaks. Currently used by NTLM and DIGEST-MD5.
• Added –show-raw-text option to provide more details of exact data being sent on the wire

Notable Changes:

• SMTP Data token parsing has been changed from single-character (%F) to multi-character (%FROM_ADDRESS%) to reduce chance of collisions with message text, especially non-ascii language encoding. See –use-old-data-tokens to recover old tokens while transitioning. (issue reported by Peter Baranyi)
• Specifying the NTLM/MSN/SPA DOMAIN by appending “%DOMAIN” to the username is no longer supported. See the new –auth-extra command.
• The DIGEST-MD5 authentication no longer uses the (buggy) Authen::DigestMD5 module. The Authen::SASL module is now used.

Notable Bugs Fixed:

• Previous release broke ability to use –header to set custom headers (first reported by David Favor)
• Previous release would not allow a file to be used to provide the message data if the file name contained the character “n”. (first reported by dietrich.rebmann@******)
• swaks has never properly handled creating date strings for timezones that are not on an even hour boundary. (report from, and patch provided by, Peter Samuelson)
• The documented behavior of the “no-” prefix on swaks’ options did not work when –OPTION and –no-OPTION were given in the same context.
• The DIGEST-MD5 auth type was not completely implemented. Worked extensively with Erwan Legrand to get as complete and useful an implementation as possible.
• Previous release contained a regression in which TLS responses sent in multiple packets were not processed correctly. (reported by Peter J. Holzer)

I’m almost ready to release a new version of swaks which includes a few new features and some bug fixes.  The last change I made involved a change in the code which reads text from the server.  All of my testing indicates that the code is right, but my available testing platforms aren’t as varied as they used to be.   If you are able, please download and test.  Feel free to share the link as much as you want, but please don’t package it yet.  If no one reports anything serious I’ll release the “real” version in a week or so.

Here are links to the script and the Changelog for this version:

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.

I don’t have a pretty version of new features or bug fixes yet but the Changelog can be trawled for a decent overview.

Any testing notes or last minute requests can be dropped as a comment here if you want, but they are most useful as an email to proj-swaks@jetmore.net.