Available Lamson Commands
The following is also available by running lamson help and you can get the help for each individual command with lamson help -for COMMAND replacing COMMAND with one of these listed below.
The format for the printed options show default options as an actual setting, and required options as a CAPITALIZED setting you must give. For example, in the send command:
lamson send -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 -debug 1 -sender EMAIL -to EMAIL -subject STR -body STR -attach False
The options -port, -host, -debug, and -file have default settings, but -sender, -to, -subject and -body require a STRing or EMAIL. Notice also that -file defaults to False which you can change by just including -file (that toggles it true).
lamson blast
Given a maildir, this command will go through each email and blast it at your server. It does nothing to the message, so it will be real messages hitting your server, not cleansed ones.
lamson cleanse
Uses Lamson mail cleansing and canonicalization system to take an input maildir (or mbox) and replicate the email over into another maildir. It's used mostly for testing and cleaning.
lamson gen
Generates various useful things for you to get you started. lamson gen -project STR -FORCE False
lamson help
Prints out help for the commands. lamson help You can get help for one command with: lamson help -for STR
lamson log
Runs a logging only server on the given hosts and port. It logs each message it receives and also stores it to the run/queue so that you can make sure it was received in testing. lamson log -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 \ -pid ./run/log.pid -chroot False \ -chdir "." -umask False -uid False -gid False \ -FORCE False If you specify a uid/gid then this means you want to first change to root, set everything up, and then drop to that UID/GID combination. This is typically so you can bind to port 25 and then become "safe" to continue operating as a non-root user. If you give one or the other, this it will just change to that uid or gid without doing the priv drop operation.
lamson queue
Let's you do most of the operations available to a queue. lamson queue (-pop | -get | -remove | -count | -clear | -keys) -name run/queue
lamson restart
Simply attempts a stop and then a start command. All options for both apply to restart. See stop and start for options available.
lamson routes
Prints out valuable information about an application's routing configuration after everything is loaded and ready to go. Helps debug problems with messages not getting to your handlers. Path has the search paths you want separated by a ':' character, and it's added to the sys.path. lamson routes -path $PWD -- config.testing -test "" It defaults to running your config.testing to load the routes. If you want it to run the config.boot then give that instead: lamson routes -- config.boot You can also test a potential target by doing -test EMAIL.
lamson send
Sends an email to someone as a test message. See the sendmail command for a sendmail replacement. lamson send -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 -debug 1 \ -sender EMAIL -to EMAIL -subject STR -body STR -attach False'
lamson sendmail
Used as a testing sendmail replacement for use in programs like mutt as an MTA. It reads the email to send on the stdin and then delivers it based on the port and host settings. lamson sendmail -port 8825 -host 127.0.0.1 -debug 0 -- [recipients]
lamson start
Runs a lamson server out of the current directory: lamson start -pid ./run/smtp.pid -FORCE False -chroot False -chdir "." \ -umask False -uid False -gid False -boot config.boot
lamson status
Prints out status information about lamson useful for finding out if it's running and where. lamson status -pid ./run/smtp.pid
lamson stop
Stops a running lamson server. Give -KILL True to have it stopped violently. The PID file is removed after the signal is sent. Give -ALL the name of a run directory and it will stop all pid files it finds there. lamson stop -pid ./run/smtp.pid -KILL False -ALL False
lamson version
Prints the version of Lamson, the reporitory revision, and the file it came from.
lamson web
Starts a very simple files only web server for easy testing of applications that need to make some HTML files as the result of their operation. If you need more than this then use a real web server. lamson web -basedir "." -port 8888 -host '127.0.0.1' This command doesn't exit so you can view the logs it prints out.