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Spam Resource: Swaks is a cool tool (and has been updated)
- January 15, 2024
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just issued a new brilliant article on Spam Resource:
Do you know about Swaks? Maybe not! It is perhaps not very widely known, but it is an amazingly useful tool. Swaks, created and maintained by John Jetmore, is billed as a “Swiss Army Knife for SMTP” and that’s an apt description. What is it? It’s an SMTP testing utility. It lets you watch as it connects to a remote mail server and attempts to send an email message using the values you specify. You can specify the sender, recipient, and which server to connect to. You can also specify body content, if you want, though it has a good default “this is a test” setting. And it has been updated, with version 20240103.0 newly released in January 2024. New features include BCC and CC support, TLS debugging and improvements, improved documentation and other enhancements. Swaks is a technical email nerd’s best friend. I use it to test things like:
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