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@@ -8,14 +8,18 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .TH ESMTP 1 + .SH NAME esmtp + .SH SUMMARY libESMTP to Sendmail compatibility interface + .SH SYNOPSIS .B esmtp .RI "[ " flags " ] [ " address " " ... " ]" .br + .SH DESCRIPTION .B Esmtp is a send-only @@ -23,27 +27,22 @@ is a send-only emulator for machines which normally retrieve their mail up from a centralized mailhub using programs such as -.B fetchmail -. +.B fetchmail . .PP .B Esmtp does not attempt to provide all the functionality of .B sendmail : it is intended to be used by other mail user agents as -.B mutt -. +.B mutt . .SH OPTIONS Most .B sendmail options are irrelevent to -.B esmtp -. Those marked ``ignored'' or -``default'' have no effect on mail transfer. Those marked ``unsupported'' -are fatal errors. Those marked ``simulated'' are not errors, but the result -is for the program to exit with an informative message. A sort of fatal -non-error. +.B esmtp . +Those marked ``ignored'' or ``default'' have no effect on mail transfer. +Those marked ``unsupported'' are fatal errors. .TP .B \-Ac @@ -69,35 +68,31 @@ or .TP .B \-ba -(ignored) +(unsupported) Go into ARPANET -mode. All input lines must end with a CR-LF, -and all messages will be generated with a CR-LF at the end. -Also, -the ``From:'' and ``Sender:'' -fields are examined for the name of the sender. +mode. .TP .B \-bd -(ignored) +(unsupported) Run as a daemon. .TP .B \-bD -(ignored) +(unsupported) Same as .B \-bd except runs in foreground. .TP .B \-bh -(ignored) +(unsupported) Print the persistent host status database. .TP .B \-bH -(ignored) +(unsupported) Purge expired entries from the persistent host status database. .TP @@ -107,41 +102,37 @@ Initialize the alias database. .TP .B \-bm -(ignored) -Deliver mail in the usual way (default). +(default) +Deliver mail in the usual way. .TP .B \-bp -(ignored) +(unsupported) Print a listing of the queue(s). .TP .B \-bP -(ignored) +(unsupported) Print number of entries in the queue(s); only available with shared memory support. .TP .B \-bs -(ignored) +(unsupported) Use the SMTP protocol as described in RFC821 on standard input and output. -This flag implies all the operations of the -.B \-ba -flag that are compatible with -SMTP. .TP .B \-bt -(ignored) +(unsupported) Run in address test mode. .TP .B \-bv -(ignored) +(unsupported) Verify names only \- do not try to collect or deliver a message. .TP @@ -169,40 +160,17 @@ 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. -.B \-f -should only be used -by ``trusted'' users -(normally -.IR root ", " daemon , -and -.IR network ) -or if the person you are trying to become -is the same as the person you are. -Otherwise, -an X-Authentication-Warning header -will be added to the message. .TP .BI \-G (ignored) -Relay (gateway) submission of a message, -e.g., when -.BR rmail -calls -.B sendmail . +Relay (gateway) submission of a message. .TP .BI \-h N (ignored) Set the hop count to .IR N . -The hop count is incremented every time the mail is -processed. -When it reaches a limit, -the mail is returned with an error message, -the victim of an aliasing loop. -If not specified, -``Received:'' lines in the message are counted. .TP .B \-i @@ -233,7 +201,7 @@ to be notified when the message is successfully delivered. .TP .B \-n -(ignored) +(default) Don't do aliasing. .TP @@ -243,7 +211,7 @@ Set option .I option to the specified .IR value . -This form uses long names. See below for more details. +This form uses long names. .TP .BI \-o "x value" @@ -253,49 +221,16 @@ Set option to the specified .IR value . This form uses single character names only. -The short names are not described in this manual page; -see the -.I "Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide" -for details. .TP .BI \-p protocol (ignored) Set the name of the protocol used to receive the message. -This can be a simple protocol name such as ``UUCP'' -or a protocol and hostname, such as ``UUCP:ucbvax''. .TP \fB\-q\fR[\fItime\fR] (ignored) Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals. -If -.I time -is omitted, process the queue once. -.I Time -is given as a tagged number, -with -`s' -being seconds, -`m' -being minutes (default), -`h' -being hours, -`d' -being days, -and -`w' -being weeks. -For example, -`\-q1h30m' -or -`\-q90m' -would both set the timeout to one hour thirty minutes. -By default, -.B sendmail -will run in the background. -This option can be used safely with -.BR \-bd . .TP \fB\-qp\fR[\fItime\fR] @@ -304,9 +239,6 @@ Similar to \fB\-q\fItime\fR, except that instead of periodically forking a child to process the queue, sendmail forks a single persistent child for each queue that alternates between processing the queue and sleeping. -The sleep time is given as the argument; it defaults to 1 second. -The process will always sleep at least 5 seconds if the queue was -empty in the previous queue run. .TP \fB\-q\fRf @@ -393,6 +325,7 @@ Log all traffic in and out of mailers in the indicated log file. .B \-\- Stop processing command flags and use the rest of the arguments as addresses. + .SH FILES .TP ~/.esmtprc |