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Tech docs for Halon,
the scriptable SMTP server for hosting providers.
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Halon is a scriptable email gateway (MTA or proxy) with many features and an extensive ecosystem; probably best described as an email delivery and security platform.
It's noted for its flexibility, scripting and integration capabilities, allowing demanding customers such as hosting providers to design the perfect solution for their needs, without compromise. It may be downloaded for free and installed on any x86-64 server/computer or as a virtual machine. Supplementary software is available on our GitHub page.
Contents
Notable articles
This informational website is arranged as a wiki. However, below are a list of the most requested articles for your convenience.
Getting started
- Getting started
- Writing system images for bare-metal or live-CD install methods
- Running on cloud services such as Amazon EC2, Azure, GCE, Rackspace or GleSYS
- User's FAQ and pricing
SMTP and e-mail
- Email security
- Delivery and routing
- Scripted routing
- External API calls
- Routing by DNS appending
- Handoff with LMTP
- Recipient filtering and in-line delivery
- Fully transparent proxy
- Scripted routing
- E-mail tracking search filters and logging
Programming and integration
- HSL scripting and API calls
- Fetching statistics using SNMP
- Platform integration with cPanel, WHMCS, Odin and Atomia.
- SOAP API
System
- Software update
- Performance benchmarks and considerations
- Clustering for scalability
- System architecture and disk layout
- IPv6 support
Management
- End-user installation guide
- Custom reporting and statistics
- Defining LDAP sources
- Installing PKI certificates
- The revision-managed configuration
- Performing recovery if something goes wrong
- Local users and console administration
Storage
- Disk layout
- Quarantine folders
- Archiving
