lua-resty-smtp

A http to smtp bridge library for the ngx_lua module

$ opm get duhoobo/lua-resty-smtp

lua-resty-smtp

I must be crazy trying to send mail with Nginx.

Purpose

To make Nginx a bridge between HTTP and SMTP.

Using lua-resty-smtp in your lua code under Nginx, you just need to issue a HTTP request with your handy HTTP client (curl, wget, urllib2 from Python etc.), in order to send a mail to your SMTP server.

Features

  • Based on module socket.smtp from LuaScoket 2.0.2, and API-compatible with it also

  • SSL connection supported (lua-nginx-lua >= v0.9.11 needed)

APIs

lua-resty-smtp is API-compatible with socket.smtp from LuaSocket 2.0.2, and you can check SMTP for detailed reference of it.

And to support SSL connection to SMTP server, optional parameter ssl is added:

  • ssl: should be a table with following fields:

lua-resty-smtp ==============

I must be crazy trying to send mail with Nginx.

Purpose -------

To make Nginx a bridge between HTTP and SMTP.

Using `lua-resty-smtp` in your lua code under Nginx, you just need to issue a HTTP request with your handy HTTP client (`curl`, `wget`, `urllib2` from Python etc.), in order to send a mail to your SMTP server.

Features --------

* Based on module `socket.smtp` from [LuaScoket 2.0.2](http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/home.html), and API-compatible with it also

* SSL connection supported (lua-nginx-lua >= v0.9.11 needed)

APIs ----

`lua-resty-smtp` is API-compatible with `socket.smtp` from [LuaSocket 2.0.2](http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/home.html), and you can check [SMTP](http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/smtp.html) for detailed reference of it.

And to support SSL connection to SMTP server, optional parameter `ssl` is added:

* `ssl`: should be a table with following fields:

    * `enable` - boolean - whether or not use SSL connection to SMTP server,
    default `false`;

    * `verify_cert` - boolean - whether or not to perform SSL verification,
    default `false`. When set to `true`, the server certificate will be verified
    according to the CA certificate specified by the
    [`lua_ssl_trusted_cerfificate`](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule#lua_ssl_trusted_certificate)
    directive.

Extra filters -------------

In addtion to the low-level filters provided by LuaSocket, two more filters is provided:

* `mime.ew`: used to encode non-ASCII string into the [Encoded-Word](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Encoded-Word) format (not support _Q-encoding_ yet);

* `mime.unew`: used to decode string in Encoded-Word format (not implemented);

Installation ------------

    make install

or

    luarocks install --local rockspec/resty.smtp-0.0.3-1.rockspec

Example -------

    local config = require("config")
    local smtp = require("resty.smtp")
    local mime = require("resty.smtp.mime")
    local ltn12 = require("resty.smtp.ltn12")

    -- ...
    -- Suppose your mail data in table `args` and default settings
    -- in table `config.mail`
    -- ...

    local mesgt = {
        headers= {
            subject= mime.ew(args.subject or config.mail.SUBJECT, nil,
                             { charset= "utf-8" }),
            ["content-transfer-encoding"]= "BASE64",
            ["content-type"]= "text/plain; charset='utf-8'",
        },

        body= mime.b64(args.body)
    }

    local ret, err = smtp.send {
        from= args.from or config.mail.FROM,
        rcpt= rcpts,
        user= args.user or config.mail.USER,
        password= args.password or config.mail.PASSWORD,
        server= args.server or config.mail.SERVER,
        domain= args.domain or config.mail.DOMAIN,
        source= smtp.message(mesgt),
    }

NOTICES:

* `ngx.tcp.socket` uses Nginx's builtin and nonblocking DNS resolver to resolve domain names IF you configure `server` field with hostname instead of IP address. SEE [doc](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#resolver) of Nginx directive `resolver` for more information.

TODO ----

* Don't abort the whole SMTP request while one of the many recipients invalid; * To reimplement MIME-relative pure-lua version low-level filters with FFI? * To implement filter `mime.unew`; * To Reduce namespace pollution by `module()`;

Performance -----------

Your SMTP server is the bottleneck. :)

Known Issues ------------

* Only work with LuaJIT 2.x now, because the codebase relies on `pcall` massively and lua-nginx-module does not work well with standard Lua 5.1 VM under this situation. See [Known Issues](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule#Lua_Coroutine_Yielding.2FResuming)

enable - boolean - whether or not use SSL connection to SMTP server, default false;

        C<verify_cert> - boolean - whether or not to perform SSL verification,
default C<false>. When set to C<true>, the server certificate will be verified
according to the CA certificate specified by the
L<`lua_ssl_trusted_cerfificate`|http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule#lua_ssl_trusted_certificate>
directive.

Extra filters

In addtion to the low-level filters provided by LuaSocket, two more filters is provided:

  • mime.ew: used to encode non-ASCII string into the Encoded-Word format (not support Q-encoding yet);

  • mime.unew: used to decode string in Encoded-Word format (not implemented);

Installation

    make install

or

    luarocks install --local rockspec/resty.smtp-0.0.3-1.rockspec

Example

    local config = require("config")
    local smtp = require("resty.smtp")
    local mime = require("resty.smtp.mime")
    local ltn12 = require("resty.smtp.ltn12")

    -- ...
    -- Suppose your mail data in table `args` and default settings
    -- in table `config.mail`
    -- ...

    local mesgt = {
        headers= {
            subject= mime.ew(args.subject or config.mail.SUBJECT, nil,
                             { charset= "utf-8" }),
            ["content-transfer-encoding"]= "BASE64",
            ["content-type"]= "text/plain; charset='utf-8'",
        },

        body= mime.b64(args.body)
    }

    local ret, err = smtp.send {
        from= args.from or config.mail.FROM,
        rcpt= rcpts,
        user= args.user or config.mail.USER,
        password= args.password or config.mail.PASSWORD,
        server= args.server or config.mail.SERVER,
        domain= args.domain or config.mail.DOMAIN,
        source= smtp.message(mesgt),
    }

NOTICES:

  • ngx.tcp.socket uses Nginx's builtin and nonblocking DNS resolver to resolve domain names IF you configure server field with hostname instead of IP address. SEE doc of Nginx directive resolver for more information.

TODO

  • Don't abort the whole SMTP request while one of the many recipients invalid;

  • To reimplement MIME-relative pure-lua version low-level filters with FFI?

  • To implement filter mime.unew;

  • To Reduce namespace pollution by module();

Performance

Your SMTP server is the bottleneck. :)

Known Issues

  • Only work with LuaJIT 2.x now, because the codebase relies on pcall massively and lua-nginx-module does not work well with standard Lua 5.1 VM under this situation. See Known Issues

Authors

Hungpu DU (duhoobo)

License

2bsd

Dependencies

luajit

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