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swaks mit Homebrew installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für swaks in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
SMTP command-line test tool
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- swaks
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
Swaks, the Swiss Army Knife for SMTP, is a scriptable command-line SMTP transaction tester. It is used by mail operators, developers, and automation scripts to exercise SMTP, ESMTP, LMTP, TLS, authentication, and message-delivery edge cases.
Projektgeschichte
The official project page describes Swaks as a featureful, flexible, scriptable, transaction-oriented SMTP test tool written and maintained by John Jetmore. The official versions page lists releases back to 2003, and the GitHub mirror/repository metadata shows the current source repository at jetmore/swaks.
Adoptionsgeschichte
Swaks has broad package-manager coverage because SMTP testing is useful on servers, workstations, CI systems, and mail infrastructure. The input package facts list packages across apk, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora/dnf, MacPorts, Nix, Arch/pacman, Ubuntu, and zypper.
Wie es verwendet wird
The reference documentation emphasizes transactions: choose a recipient and server, test authentication, attach EICAR or GTUBE payloads for mail-filter checks, use LMTP over a Unix socket, or script recipient verification loops. Options can come from a config file, environment variables, or command-line flags, with later sources overriding earlier ones.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
Swaks is beloved in package-manager culture because it is a single-purpose diagnostic executable with deep protocol knobs and minimal ceremony. It is the sort of tool administrators expect to install quickly during incident response, image building, or integration testing, which explains its presence in many Unix package sets.
Zeitleiste
- 2003: Earliest official release listed on the Swaks versions page.
- 2017: GitHub repository created.
- 2020: v20201014.0 and v20201024.0 releases appear in the official versions history.
- 2024: v20240103.0 released as the latest version listed on the official project page during research.
Related projects
- Swaks is related to SMTP, ESMTP, LMTP, TLS, authentication mechanisms, mail filters, and test payload conventions such as EICAR and GTUBE, all of which appear in its official examples and feature list.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
$SWAKS_HOME/.swaksrc~/.swaksrc$LOGDIR/.swaksrc
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
swaks | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version20240103.0
Manager aktualisiert
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:swaks |
|---|---|
| Version | 20240103.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation