sendmail(8) — Linux manual page

SENDMAIL(8)              System Manager's Manual             SENDMAIL(8)

NAME         top

       sendmail — a mail enqueuer for smtpd(8)

SYNOPSIS         top

       sendmail [-tv] [-F name] [-f from] to ...

DESCRIPTION         top

       The sendmail utility is a local enqueuer for the smtpd(8) daemon,
       compatible with mailwrapper(8).  The message is read on standard
       input (stdin) until sendmail encounters an end-of-file.  The
       sendmail enqueuer is not intended to be used directly to send
       mail, but rather via a frontend known as a mail user agent.

       Unless the optional -t flag is specified, one or more recipients
       must be specified on the command line.

       The options are as follows:

       -F name
               Set the sender's full name.

       -f from
               Set the sender's address.

       -t      Read the message's To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields for
               recipients.  The Bcc: field will be deleted before
               sending.

       -v      Enable verbose output.

       To maintain compatibility with Sendmail, Inc.'s implementation of
       sendmail, various other flags are accepted, but have no effect.

EXIT STATUS         top

       The utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO         top

       smtpctl(8), smtpd(8)

AUTHORS         top

       OpenSMTPD is primarily developed by Gilles Chehade, Eric Faurot,
       and Charles Longeau, with contributions from various OpenBSD
       hackers.  It is distributed under the ISC license.

       This manpage was written by Ryan Kavanagh ⟨rak@debian.org⟩ for
       the Debian project and is distributed under the ISC license.

COLOPHON         top

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       server-side SMTP protocol) project.  Information about the
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       ⟨https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD/issues⟩.  This page was
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GNU                         October 23, 2015                 SENDMAIL(8)

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