Ehlo SMTP Server

Ehlo is a SMTP server which send every mails to an api in a nice json format

Install

npm i -g ehlo

Using It

ehlo -p 10025 -a http://localhost/myAwesomApi

Now send a mail with your favorite lib (like nodemailer) with localhost:10025 as SMTP server.

Your mail will be send with a POST request to http://localhost/myAwesomApi. All the json is posted in a mail form-data variable.

Here a tcpdump of a POST request :

13:41:45.987903 IP 127.0.0.1.52340 > 127.0.0.1.80: Flags [P.], seq 1:274, ack 1, win 12759, options [nop,nop,TS val 756661265 ecr 756661265], length 273
E..EP!@.@............t.P8...:jef..1..9.....
-...-...POST / HTTP/1.1
host: localhost
content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--------------------------511395648416127300743092
content-length: 249
Connection: close

----------------------------511395648416127300743092
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="mail"

13:41:45.987961 IP 127.0.0.1.52340 > 127.0.0.1.80: Flags [P.], seq 274:422, ack 1, win 12759, options [nop,nop,TS val 756661265 ecr 756661265], length 148
E...%.@.@............t.P8...:jef..1........
-...-...{"text":"Just an example\n","headers":{"subject":"Try"},"subject":"Try","priority":"normal"}

You can also store emails to disk with the --save [path] or -s [path] option.

For more informations about the json results, look at the mailparser library.

Setting DNS

If you want to receive real emails on your api, you should setup your DNS RECORDS. For example, if you want to receive emails at *@example.com.

• An MX Record: example.com MX 10 mx.domain.com
• A a record: mx.subdomain A <ip of your ehlo server>

Contributing

Provide a pull request (with tested code) to include your work in this main project. Issues may be awaiting for help so feel free to give a hand, with code or ideas.

License

Ehlo is under the MIT license. Please see LICENSE