mail.remote(8mailutils)

NAME

mail.remote - pseudo-sendmail interface for mail delivery

SYNOPSIS

mail.remote [OPTION...] [TO-ADDR]...

DESCRIPTION

GNU mail.remote -- pseudo-sendmail interface for mail delivery

-b OPT: Ignored for sendmail compatibility

-d, --debug: Print envelope commands in the SMTP protocol transaction. If specified more than once, the data part of the protocol transaction will also be printed.

-f, --from=ADDR: Override the default from address

-i: Ignored for sendmail compatibility

-o OPT: Ignored for sendmail compatibility

-t, --read-recipients: Read message for recipients.

: Authentication options

--authentication=MODLIST: Set the list of modules to be used for authentication

--authorization=MODLIST: Set list of modules to be used for authorization

--pam-service=STRING: Use STRING as PAM service name

--sql-db=STRING: Name of the database to connect to

--sql-field-map=MAP: Declare a name translation map for SQL fields in results of sql-getpwnam and sql-getpwuid queries

--sql-getpass=QUERY: SQL query to retrieve a password from the database

--sql-getpwnam=QUERY: SQL query to retrieve a passwd entry based on username

--sql-getpwuid=QUERY: SQL query to retrieve a passwd entry based on UID

--sql-host=HOSTNAME: Name or IP of MySQL server to connect to

--sql-interface=NAME: Type of SQL interface to use

--sql-passwd=STRING: SQL connection password

--sql-password-type=STRING: Type of password returned by --sql-getpass query. STRING is one of: plain, hash, scrambled

--sql-port=NUMBER: Port to use

--sql-user=NAME: SQL user name

--virtual-passwd-dir=DIR: Search for virtual passwd file in DIR

: Common options

-M, --mailer=MAILER: Use specified URL as the default mailer

-D, --email-domain=DOMAIN: Set domain for unqualified user names (default is this host)

-E, --email-addr=EMAIL: Set current user's email address (default is loginname@defaultdomain)

--license: Print license and exit

-?, --help: give this help list

--usage: give a short usage message

-V, --version: print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

This is a simple drop-in replacement for sendmail to forward mail directly to an SMTP gateway. You should always specify your SMTP gateway using --mailer option (the best place to do so is in your configuration file).

EXAMPLES

Deliver mail via SMTP gateway at "mail.example.com", reading its contents for recipients of the message.

: mail.remote --mailer smtp://mail.example.com -t

Deliver mail only to "[email protected]"

: mail.remote --mailer smtp://mail.example.com [email protected]

Deliver mail to "[email protected]" as well as to the recipients specified in the message itself:

: mail.remote --mailer smtp://mail.example.com -t [email protected]

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.