SENDMAIL   (8) manpage
SENDMAIL
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March 12, 2002
  • NAME
      sendmail - Local user interface to XMail
  • SYNOPSIS
      sendmail [-t] [-f...] [-F...] [--input-file fname] [--xinput-file fname] [--rcpt-file fname] [--] recipient ...
  • DESCRIPTION
      When building XMail an executable called sendmail is also created. This is a replacement of the sendmail program used mostly on Unix systems and that use the local mail delivery feature of XMail to send email generated onto the server machine.
  • EXIT STATUS
      sendmail exits with zero on success.
  • OPTIONS
      The only a few sendmail options that are supported, other options are simply ignored. There are also some special XMail options.
      -f{mail from}
      Set the sender of the email.
      -F{ext mail from}
      Set the extended sender of the email.
      -t
      Extract recipients from the "To:"/"Cc:"/"Bcc:" header tags
      --input-file fname
      Take the message from the specified file instead from stdin ( RFC format ).
      --xinput-file fname
      Take the message from the specified file instead from stdin ( XMail format ).
      --rcpt-file fname
      Add recipients listed inside the specified file ( list exploder ).
  • ENVIRONMENT
      MAIL_ROOT
      Mail root directory.
  • NOTES
      XMail message format is strict: mail from:<...>[CR][LF]
      rcpt to:<...>[CR][LF]
      ...
      [CR][LF]
      message text with [CR][LF] line termination RFC message format: [Headers]
      NewLine
      Body
  • SEE ALSO
  • AUTHOR
      XMail program was written by Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>. This manual page was written by Radim Kolar <hsn@cybermail.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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