messagetoken

messagetoken commnad of bounceHammer is for generating a messsage token. The message token is a unique string (MD5 hash value) which is created from an Addresser (a sender's email address) and a Recipient (a recipient's email address), is an identifier of each record in a database.
This command has been installed in INSTALL-DESTINATION/bin directory.

• Usage of this command
• Available options
• Screenshot of the running command
• Alternatives

Usage

messagetoken command take 2 arguments: an Addresser (a sender's email address) and a Recipient (a recipient email address).

Options for Email Addresses

-a, --addresser Sender's Email Address

Specify a sender's email address. It is case insensitve and always required.

-r, --recipient Recipient's Email Address

Specify a recipients's email address. It is case insensitve and always required.

Other Options

-C, --conf /path/to/configuration file

Use an alternative bounceHammer's configuration file. If this option is omitted, the command will use INSTALL-DESTINATION/etc/bouncehammer.cf .

-T, --test

Runs as test mode. This option is equals to the option -C INSTALL-DESTINATION/etc/test-run.cf .

--silent (Beginning with ver.2.1.0)

Turn silent mode on. This option makes the command quiet in spite of -v, --verbose option (described later). And when the command is called from a daemon (such as sendmail), the command will exit with status 0 in spite of an error. If an MTA process (e.g. /usr/sbin/sendmail) which is called the command without this --silent option stopped by an error, the command will exit with status 75(EX_TEMPFAIL).

-v, --verbose

Turn verbose mode ON.

--help

Display help messages of this command.

--version

Display the version number of this command.

messagetoken -vvvvv -a postmaster@example.jp -r user@example.com

The following screenshot shows that the command generates a message token from the Addresser(sender's): postmaster@example.jp and Recipient: user@example.com .

You will get the same message token string by using the printf program without using messagetoken command.

The format of a source string of bounceHammer's message token is the following: STX(Start of Text)Addresser(Sender's email address)RS(Record Separator)Recipient(recipient email address)ETX(End of Text), The message token is a MD5 hash value which created from the earlier text (All characters are written in lower case).
Use the md5sum program if the md5 program is not in your system.