sendmail(8) 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

AUTHOR

XMail program was written by Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>. This manual page was written by Radim Kolar <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).