hectane

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Hectane

The goal of Hectane is simple: to create an SMTP client that is extremely easy to configure and use. The application exposes a simple HTTP API that is used for sending emails.

Features

• ability to attach files to emails
• support for TLS encryption and HTTP basic auth
• mail queue that efficiently delivers emails to hosts
• emails in the queue are stored on disk until delivery
• MX records for the destination host are tried in order of priority

Parameters

Hectane currently recognizes the following command-line parameters (all are optional):

• -bind - address to bind to (in the format host:port - default is :8025)
• -tls-cert - path to TLS certificate
• -tls-key - path to TLS key
• -username - username for HTTP basic auth
• -password - password for HTTP basic auth
• -directory - storage location for emails awaiting delivery
• -disable-ssl-verification - disables verification of server SSL certificates

Usage

Hectane exposes an HTTP API that can be used to deliver emails. The API expects and responds with JSON data. Currently, the API consists of the following methods:

GET /v1/version

Response

{
    "version": "x.y.z"
}

POST /v1/send

Parameters

• from - sender email address
• to - list of recipient email addresses
• cc - list of carbon copy recipients
• bcc - list of blind carbon copy recipients
• subject - email subject
• text - body of the email as plain text
• html - body of the email as HTML
• attachments - a list of attachments:
  • filename - filename of the attachment
  • content_type - MIME type of the attachment (for example, text/plain)
  • content - UTF-8 or base64 encoded content of the attachment
  • encoded - true if content is base64 encoded

Response

The response is either an empty JSON object (indicating success) or a JSON object with an error key describing the problem.