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SMTP

Tested with Mozilla Thunderbird

Warning

At the moment, using SMTP is only possible when filling out the address book.

To be able to send email through SMTP you need to:

[smtp]
enabled = true
address = 127.0.0.1
port = 9025
  • Restart the pboted to apply the settings
  • After loading, you be able to connect to the specified SMTP port manually or with your mail client.

How to compose email

FROM

There are 2 options for how this field might look.

1. classic

In this case, the address consists of three parts, something like this:

NAME <IDENTITY_NAME@DOMAIN>

  • NAME - can be the name of the used Bote identity
  • IDENTITY_NAME - can be the name of the used Bote identity
  • DOMAIN - can be any valid domain

At least one of the two - NAME or IDENTITY_NAME - must be present in loaded Bote identities
If both (NAME and IDENTITY_NAME) are present in in loaded Bote identities but refer to different Bote identities - only the Bote identity specified for IDENTITY_NAME will be used.
DOMAIN will be ignored anyway.

For example:

John Doe <johnd@bote.i2p>

2. Bote style

In this case, the address consists of two parts:

IDENTITY_NAME <BOTE_ADDRESS>

  • IDENTITY_NAME - should be the name of the used Bote identity
  • BOTE_ADDRESS - should be Bote address

If a Bote Identity is found for IDENTITY_NAME, the BOTE_ADDRESS field will be replaced with the value from that identity.

For example:

johnd <24noEIMPvV9CEwrSWQtIsTA7balaZ80ZOGRBAzrsBl5nv9xud~k28d9TQIgXmyyCYtHl8PJASAFDeefSc6EJ81>

TO

Field consists of two parts:

NAME <ALIAS>

  • NAME - can be in the address book for replacement
  • ALIAS - can be in the address book for replacement

One of the two - NAME or ALIAS - must be present in the address book.
If both (NAME and ALIAS) are present in the address book but refer to different Mail Destinations - only the Mail Destination specified for ALIAS will be used.

For example, if you have this record in addressbook:

johnd1@bote.i2p;John Doe 1;24noEIMPvV9CEwrSWQtIsTA7balaZ80ZOGRBAzrsBl5nv9xud~k28d9TQIgXmyyCYtHl8PJASAFDeefSc6EJ81

You can fill TO like this:

TO: John Doe <johnd1@bote.i2p>

Last update: 2023-03-08