aiosmtpd
provides a main entry point which can be used to run the server on the command line. There are two ways to run the server, depending on how the package has been installed.
You can run the server by passing it to Python directly:
$ python3 -m aiosmtpd -n
This starts a server on localhost, port 8025 without setting the uid to ‘nobody’ (i.e. because you aren’t running it as root). Once you’ve done that, you can connect directly to the server using your favorite command line protocol tool. Type the
QUIT
command at the server once you see the greeting:
% telnet localhost 8025 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 subdivisions Python SMTP ... QUIT 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host.
Of course, you could use Python’s
smtplib
module, or any other SMTP client to talk to the server.
Hit control-C at the server to stop it.
The entry point may also be installed as the
aiosmtpd
command, so this is equivalent to the above
python3
invocation:
$ aiosmtpd -n
Optional arguments are described in the man page 文档。