NAME¶
calibre-smtp - part of calibre
SYNOPSIS¶
calibre-smtp [options] [from to text]
DESCRIPTION¶
Send mail using the SMTP protocol. calibre-smtp has two modes of operation. In
the compose mode you specify from to and text and these are used to build and
send an email message. In the filter mode, calibre-smtp reads a complete email
message from STDIN and sends it.
text is the body of the email message. If text is not specified, a complete
email message is read from STDIN. from is the email address of the sender and
to is the email address of the recipient. When a complete email is read from
STDIN, from and to are only used in the SMTP negotiation, the message headers
are not modified.
Whenever you pass arguments to calibre-smtp that have spaces in them, enclose
the arguments in quotation marks.
OPTIONS¶
- --version
- show program's version number and exit
- -h, --help
- show this help message and exit
- -l, --localhost
- Host name of localhost. Used when connecting to SMTP
server.
- -o, --outbox
- Path to maildir folder to store failed email messages
in.
- -f, --fork
- Fork and deliver message in background. If you use this
option, you should also use --outbox to handle delivery failures.
- -t, --timeout
- Timeout for connection
- -v, --verbose
- Be more verbose
COMPOSE MAIL¶
Options to compose an email. Ignored if text is not specified
- -a, --attachment
- File to attach to the email
- -s, --subject
- Subject of the email
SMTP RELAY¶
Options to use an SMTP relay server to send mail. calibre will try to send the
email directly unless --relay is specified.
- -r, --relay
- An SMTP relay server to use to send mail.
- --port
- Port to connect to on relay server. Default is to use 465
if encryption method is SSL and 25 otherwise.
- -u, --username
- Username for relay
- -p, --password
- Password for relay
- -e, --encryption-method
- Encryption method to use when connecting to relay. Choices
are TLS, SSL and NONE. Default is TLS. WARNING: Choosing NONE is highly
insecure
SEE ALSO¶
The User Manual is available at
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com
Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
