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.Dd August 9, 2005
.Dt SENDMAIL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sendmail
.Nd command line mail submission program
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm sendmail
.Op Fl 46tVv
.Op Fl f Ar from
.Op Fl F Ar name
.Op Ar address ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is intended to be used for command line mail submission.
It features a
.Xr sendmail 8 Ns -compatible
command line interface and forwards
mail via SMTP to the host given in the config file,
an environment variable, or localhost.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width 12345678
.It Fl 4
Only use IPv4.
.It Fl 6
Only use IPv6.
.It Fl F Ar name
Set the sender's name to
.Ar name .
.It Fl f Ar from
Set the sender address to
.Ar from .
Normally,
.Nm
tries to parse the sender from the message, and uses login@hostname if that
is not present.
.It Fl t
Read recipients from the message given on stdin, in addition to the
recipients given on the command line.
.It Fl V
Use XVERP if offered.
.It Fl v
Enable verbose operation.
.El
.Sh CONFIG FILE
The config file,
.Pa /etc/mail/msp.conf ,
consists of simple name=value pairs.
The supported settings are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "smtphost"
.It Ar smtphost
Specify the server
.Nm
should send the messages to.
.It Ar smtpport
Specify the port
.Nm
uses on
.Ar smtphost
to send the messages.
Default is 25.
.It Ar myname
The hostname
.Nm
uses.
Defaults to the machine's hostname.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width Ev
.It Ev SMTPHOST
Forward mail to the given host instead of the local host.
Only consulted when not set in the config file.
.It Ev SMTPPORT
Connect to the given port instead of 25.
Only consulted when not set in the config file.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mail 1
.Sh NOTES
The original name of this program is
.Ar femail ,
however, for compatibility reasons it is installed as
.Nm
which is the name under which most mail related programs expect a
mail submission program.
.Sh AUTHORS
This program
was written by
.An Henning Brauer .