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As mentioned in 2.8 announce on the mailing list [1] and on the wiki [2]
native mailers were deprecated and planned for removal in 3.3. Now is
the time to drop the legacy code for native mailers which is based on a
tcpcheck "hack" and cannot be maintained. Lua mailers should be used as
a drop in replacement. Indeed, "mailers" and associated config directives
are preserved because mailers config is exposed to Lua, which helps smoothing
the transition from native mailers to Lua based ones.
As a reminder, to keep mailers configuration working as before without
making changes to the config file, simply add the line below to the global
section:
lua-load examples/lua/mailers.lua
mailers.lua script (provided in the git repository, adjust path as needed)
may be customized by users familiar with Lua, by default it emulates the
behavior of the native (now removed) mailers.
[1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg43600.html
[2]: https://github.com/haproxy/wiki/wiki/Breaking-changes
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.