org.paneris.messageboard.receivemail
Class SMTPServer

java.lang.Object
  org.paneris.messageboard.receivemail.SMTPServer

public class SMTPServer
extends java.lang.Object

An SMTP server to handle mail coming in to messageboards. It is intended to be invoked from init scripts approximately thus:

   java org.paneris.messageboard.receivemail.SMTPServer --port 1615 &
 

A single server can handle mail for messageboards in several separate databases; the name of the database to which it should connect is determined from the recipient address given when the mail arrives. The program looks for a `properties' resource under the name smtpServer.properties which specifies the mappings from domain to database name, in the form

   org.paneris.messageboard.receivemail.database.DOMAIN=DATABASE
 

for example

   org.paneris.messageboard.receivemail.database.messageboards.x.com=x
 

(see also smtpServer.properties.example). Mail can be funelled into the server either by having it listen on port 25 in place of sendmail, or by configuring the locally running MTA to forward appropriately addressed email to the server on a different port. Snedmail configuration Edit sendmail.cf to define a new mailer. Where it says

   Msmtp,             P=[IPC], F=mDFMuX, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990,
                      T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
                      A=IPC $h
 

insert also

   Msmtp1615,         P=[IPC], F=mDFMuX, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990,
                      T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
                      A=IPC $h 1615
 

Then use the standard mailertable feature to direct, for example, all mail to messageboards.x.com on to smtp1615:x.com. You can do this very easily with linuxconf's Special (domain) routing menu: make an entry with Destination set to messageboards.x.com, Forwarder set to x.com, and Mailer set to smtp1615. But make sure to hack /usr/lib/linuxconf/mailconf/smtpmailer.std.cf first, as described above, to get it to define the special mailer in the sendmail.cf it generates. And of course for every mail domain which sendmail is configured to forward to the messageboards server, there should be an entry in smtpServer.properties telling the latter which database to use. Qmail configuration In ...qmail/control/smtproutes add

 messageboards.paneris.org:127.0.0.1:1615
 

Postfix configuration See http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html In /etc/postfix/main.cf add

 transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
 

In /etc/postfix/transport add

 messageboards.paneris.org :127.0.0.1:1615
 

(I found localhost went to a pipex server) you could equally use

 messageboards.paneris.org smtp:127.0.0.1:1615
 

then run

 postmap /etc/postfix/transport
 postfix reload
 

The program takes the following command line arguments:

--port number	the port on which to listen, if not 1615
--properties filename	the name of a file in CLASSPATH containing the domain-to-database mappings, if not smtpServer.properties
--log filename	the name of the log file (defaults to /usr/local/apache/log/messageboard-receivemail.log

Constructor Summary

SMTPServer()

Method Summary

static void

main(java.lang.String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SMTPServer

public SMTPServer()

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)