Net::SMTP::Server::Relay - A simple relay module for Net::SMTP::Server.


  use Carp;
  use Net::SMTP::Server;
  use Net::SMTP::Server::Client;
  use Net::SMTP::Server::Relay;

  $server = new Net::SMTP::Server('localhost', 25) ||
    croak("Unable to handle client connection: $!\n");

  while($conn = $server->accept()) {
    # We can perform all sorts of checks here for spammers, ACLs,
    # and other useful stuff to check on a connection.

    # Handle the client's connection and spawn off a new parser.
    # This can/should be a fork() or a new thread,
    # but for simplicity...
    my $client = new Net::SMTP::Server::Client($conn) ||

    # Process the client.  This command will block until
    # the connecting client completes the SMTP transaction.
    $client->process || next;
    # In this simple server, we're just relaying everything
    # to a server.  If a real server were implemented, you
    # could save email to a file, or perform various other
    # actions on it here.
    my $relay = new Net::SMTP::Server::Relay($client->{FROM},


The Net::SMTP::Server::Relay module implements simple SMTP relaying for use with the Net::SMTP::Server module. All this module does is to take a given message and iterate through the list of recipients, doing DNS lookups for the associated MX record and delivering the messages. This module makes extensive use of the plethora of other modules already implemented for Perl (specifically the DNS and Net::SMTP modules in this case), and should give but a glimpse of the potential for extending the Net::SMTP::Server's functionality to provide a full-featured SMTP server, native to Perl.

The above example illustrates the use of the Net::SMTP::Server::Relay modules -- you simply have to instantiate the module, passing along the sender, recipients, and message. More formally:

  $relay = new Net::SMTP::Server::Relay($from, @to, $msg);

Where $from is the sender, @to is an array containing the list of recipients, and $msg is the message to relay.

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT Net::SMTP::Server / SMTP::Server is Copyright(C) 1999, MacGyver (aka Habeeb J. Dihu) <>. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.



Net::SMTP::Server::Server, Net::SMTP::Server::Client