esmtp - libESMTP to Sendmail compatibility interface
esmtp [
flags] [
address ...]
sendmail [
flags] [
address ...]
mailq
sendmail -bp
newaliases
sendmail -bi
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.
Most
sendmail options are irrelevant to
esmtp . Those marked
‘‘ignored’’ or
‘‘default’’ have no effect on mail
transfer. Those marked
‘‘unsupported’’ are fatal errors.
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-Ac (ignored)
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Use submit.cf even if the operation mode does not
indicate an initial mail submission.
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-Am (ignored)
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Use sendmail.cf even if the operation mode indicates an
initial mail submission.
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-B type
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Set the body type to type. Current legal values
are 7BIT or 8BITMIME.
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-ba (unsupported)
-
Go into ARPANET mode.
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-bd (unsupported)
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Run as a daemon.
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-bD (unsupported)
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Same as -bd except runs in foreground.
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-bh (unsupported)
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Print the persistent host status database.
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-bH (unsupported)
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Purge expired entries from the persistent host status
database.
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-bi (ignored)
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Initialize the alias database.
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-bm (default)
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Deliver mail in the usual way.
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-bp
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Print a listing of the queue(s).
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-bP (unsupported)
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Print number of entries in the queue(s); only available
with shared memory support.
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-bs (unsupported)
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Use the SMTP protocol as described in RFC821 on standard
input and output.
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-bt (unsupported)
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Run in address test mode.
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-bv (unsupported)
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Verify names only - do not try to collect or deliver a
message.
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-C file
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Use alternate configuration file.
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-d X (ignored)
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Set debugging value to X.
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-F fullname
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Set the full name of the sender.
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-f name
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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.
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-G (ignored)
-
Relay (gateway) submission of a message.
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-h N (ignored)
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Set the hop count to N.
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-I (ignored)
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Same as -bi.
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-i (ignored)
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Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in incoming
messages. This should be set if you are reading data from
a file.
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-L tag (ignored)
-
Set the identifier used in syslog messages to the
supplied tag.
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-N dsn
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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.
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-n (default)
-
Don’t do aliasing.
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-O option=value (ignored)
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Set option option to the specified value.
This form uses long names.
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-o x value (ignored)
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Set option x to the specified value. This
form uses single character names only.
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-p protocol (ignored)
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Set the name of the protocol used to receive the message.
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-q[time] (ignored)
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Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals.
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-qp[time] (ignored)
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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.
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-qf (ignored)
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Process saved messages in the queue once and do not
fork(), but run in the foreground.
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-qG name (ignored)
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Process jobs in queue group called name only.
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-q[!]I substr (ignored)
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Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as
a substring of the queue id or not when ! is
specified.
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-q[!]R substr (ignored)
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Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as
a substring of one of the recipients or not when !
is specified.
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-q[!]S substr (ignored)
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Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as
a substring of the sender or not when ! is
specified.
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-R return
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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.
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-r name
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An alternate and obsolete form of the -f flag.
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-t
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Read message for recipients. To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines
will be scanned for recipient addresses. The Bcc: line
will be deleted before transmission.
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-V envid
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Set the original envelope id.
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-v
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Go into verbose mode.
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-X logfile
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Log all traffic in and out of mailers in the indicated
log file.
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--
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Stop processing command flags and use the rest of the
arguments as addresses.
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~/.esmtprc
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User configuration file. Only read if no configuration
file is specified on the command line.
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/etc/esmtprc
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System configuration file. Only read if no configuration
file is specified on the command line and there is no
user configuration file.
esmtprc(5) ,
fetchmail(1)
Jos[’e] Fonseca
Last modified on 2007-10-31.