mail-send

mail-send is a Rust library to build, sign and send e-mail messages via SMTP. It includes the following features:

• Generates e-mail messages conforming to the Internet Message Format standard (RFC 5322).
• Full MIME support (RFC 2045 - 2049) with automatic selection of the most optimal encoding for each message body part.
• DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures (RFC 6376).
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP; RFC 5321) delivery.
• SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS (RFC 3207).
• SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (RFC 4954) with automatic mechanism negotiation (from most secure to least secure):
  • CRAM-MD5 (RFC 2195)
  • DIGEST-MD5 (RFC 2831; obsolete but still supported)
  • XOAUTH2 (Google proprietary)
  • LOGIN
  • PLAIN
• Full async (requires Tokio).

Usage Example

Send a message via an SMTP server that requires authentication:

    // Build a simple multipart message
    let message = MessageBuilder::new()
        .from(("John Doe", "john@example.com"))
        .to(vec![
            ("Jane Doe", "jane@example.com"),
            ("James Smith", "james@test.com"),
        ])
        .subject("Hi!")
        .html_body("<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")
        .text_body("Hello world!");

    // Connect to an SMTP relay server over TLS and
    // authenticate using the provided credentials.
    Transport::new("smtp.gmail.com")
        .credentials("john", "p4ssw0rd")
        .connect_tls()
        .await
        .unwrap()
        .send(message)
        .await
        .unwrap();

Sign a message with DKIM and send it via an SMTP relay server:

    // Build a simple text message with a single attachment
    let message = MessageBuilder::new()
        .from(("John Doe", "john@example.com"))
        .to("jane@example.com")
        .subject("Howdy!")
        .text_body("These pretzels are making me thirsty.")
        .binary_attachment("image/png", "pretzels.png", [1, 2, 3, 4].as_ref());

    // Set up DKIM signer
    let dkim = DKIM::from_pkcs1_pem_file("./cert.pem")
        .unwrap()
        .domain("example.com")
        .selector("2022")
        .headers(["From", "To", "Subject"]) // Headers to sign
        .expiration(60 * 60 * 7); // Number of seconds before this signature expires (optional)

    // Connect to an SMTP relay server over TLS.
    // Signs each message with the configured DKIM signer.
    Transport::new("smtp.example.com")
        .dkim(dkim)
        .connect_tls()
        .await
        .unwrap()
        .send(message)
        .await
        .unwrap();

Send a message via an unsecured SMTP listening on port 2525. Mail-send will automatically upgrade the connection to TLS if the server advertises the STARTTLS extension:

    // Build a simple multipart message
    let message = MessageBuilder::new()
        .from(("John Doe", "john@example.com"))
        .to(vec![
            ("Jane Doe", "jane@example.com"),
            ("James Smith", "james@test.com"),
        ])
        .subject("Hi!")
        .html_body("<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")
        .text_body("Hello world!");

    // Send the message
    Transport::new("unsecured.example.com")
        .port(2525)
        .connect()
        .await
        .unwrap()
        .send(message)
        .await
        .unwrap();

More examples of how to build messages are available in the mail-builder crate. Please note that this library does not support parsing e-mail messages as this functionality is provided separately by the mail-parser crate.

Testing

To run the testsuite:

 $ cargo test --all-features

or, to run the testsuite with MIRI:

 $ cargo +nightly miri test --all-features

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2020-2022, Stalwart Labs Ltd.

See COPYING for the license.