NAME¶
esmtp - libESMTP to Sendmail compatibility interface
SYNOPSIS¶
esmtp [
flags] [
address ...]
sendmail [
flags] [
address ...]
mailq
sendmail -bp
newaliases
sendmail -bi
DESCRIPTION¶
Esmtp is a send-only
sendmail emulator for machines which normally
retrieve their mail from a centralized mailhub using programs such as
fetchmail.
Esmtp does not attempt to provide all the functionality of
sendmail: it is intended to be used by mail user agents as
mutt.
OPTIONS¶
Most
sendmail options are irrelevant to
esmtp . Those marked
``ignored'' or ``default'' have no effect on mail transfer. Those marked
``unsupported'' are fatal errors.
- -Ac (ignored)
- Use submit.cf even if the operation mode does not indicate
an initial mail submission.
- -Am (ignored)
- Use sendmail.cf even if the operation mode indicates an
initial mail submission.
- -B type
- Set the body type to type. Current legal values are
7BIT or 8BITMIME.
- -ba (unsupported)
- Go into ARPANET mode.
- -bd (unsupported)
- Run as a daemon.
- -bD (unsupported)
- Same as -bd except runs in foreground.
- -bh (unsupported)
- Print the persistent host status database.
- -bH (unsupported)
- Purge expired entries from the persistent host status
database.
- -bi (ignored)
- Initialize the alias database.
- -bm (default)
- Deliver mail in the usual way.
- -bp
- Print a listing of the queue(s).
- -bP (unsupported)
- Print number of entries in the queue(s); only available
with shared memory support.
- -bs (unsupported)
- Use the SMTP protocol as described in RFC821 on standard
input and output.
- -bt (unsupported)
- Run in address test mode.
- -bv (unsupported)
- Verify names only - do not try to collect or deliver a
message.
- -C file
- Use alternate configuration file.
- -d X (ignored)
- Set debugging value to X.
- -F fullname
- Set the full name of the sender.
- -f name
- Sets the name of the ``from'' person (i.e., the envelope
sender of the mail). This address may also be used in the From: header if
that header is missing during initial submission. The envelope sender
address is used as the recipient for delivery status notifications and may
also appear in a Return-Path: header.
This address is also used to select from different identities in the
configuration file.
If no envelope sender is specified in the command line then the default
identity's address is used.
- -G (ignored)
- Relay (gateway) submission of a message.
- -h N (ignored)
- Set the hop count to N.
- -I (ignored)
- Same as -bi.
- -i (ignored)
- Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in incoming
messages. This should be set if you are reading data from a file.
- -L tag (ignored)
- Set the identifier used in syslog messages to the supplied
tag.
- -N dsn
- Set delivery status notification conditions to dsn,
which can be `never' for no notifications or a comma separated list of the
values `failure' to be notified if delivery failed, `delay' to be notified
if delivery is delayed, and `success' to be notified when the message is
successfully delivered.
- -n (default)
- Don't do aliasing.
- -O option=value (ignored)
- Set option option to the specified value.
This form uses long names.
- -o x value (ignored)
- Set option x to the specified value. This
form uses single character names only.
- -p protocol (ignored)
- Set the name of the protocol used to receive the message.
- -q[time] (ignored)
- Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals.
- -qp[time] (ignored)
- Similar to -qtime, except that instead of
periodically forking a child to process the queue, forks a single
persistent child for each queue that alternates between processing the
queue and sleeping.
- -qf (ignored)
- Process saved messages in the queue once and do not fork(),
but run in the foreground.
- -qG name (ignored)
- Process jobs in queue group called name only.
- -q[!]I substr (ignored)
- Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as a
substring of the queue id or not when ! is specified.
- -q[!]R substr (ignored)
- Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as a
substring of one of the recipients or not when ! is specified.
- -q[!]S substr (ignored)
- Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as a
substring of the sender or not when ! is specified.
- -R return
- Set the amount of the message to be returned if the message
bounces. The return parameter can be `full' to return the entire
message or `hdrs' to return only the headers. In the latter case also
local bounces return only the headers.
- -r name
- An alternate and obsolete form of the -f flag.
- -t
- Read message for recipients. To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines will
be scanned for recipient addresses. The Bcc: line will be deleted before
transmission.
- -V envid
- Set the original envelope id.
- -v
- Go into verbose mode.
- -X logfile
- Log all traffic in and out of mailers in the indicated log
file.
- --
- Stop processing command flags and use the rest of the
arguments as addresses.
FILES¶
-
~/.esmtprc
- User configuration file. Only read if no configuration file
is specified on the command line.
- /etc/esmtprc
- System configuration file. Only read if no configuration
file is specified on the command line and there is no user configuration
file.
SEE ALSO¶
esmtprc(5),
fetchmail(1)
AUTHOR¶
José Fonseca
