SENDMAIL(8)

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

XMail(8).

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).

March 12, 2002 SENDMAIL(8)