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2 cpyr
3 cpyr Copyright (c) 1998-2000, 2002, 2004-2007 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
4 cpyr All rights reserved.
5 cpyr Copyright (c) 1983, 1995-1997 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved.
6 cpyr Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
7 cpyr The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
8 cpyr Copyright 1994-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
9 cpyr Use is subject to license terms.
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11 cpyr
12 cpyr ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI"
13 cpyr $$Id: helpfile,v 8.48 2007/02/01 18:29:44 ca Exp $$
14 cpyr
15 smtp This is sendmail version $v
16 smtp Topics:
17 smtp HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA
18 smtp RSET NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY
19 smtp EXPN VERB ETRN DSN STARTTLS
20 smtp For more info use "HELP <topic>".
21 smtp To report bugs in the implementation contact Sun Microsystems
22 smtp Technical Support.
23 smtp For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
24 help HELP [ <topic> ]
25 help The HELP command gives help info.
26 helo HELO <hostname>
27 helo Introduce yourself.
28 ehlo EHLO <hostname>
29 ehlo Introduce yourself, and request extended SMTP mode.
30 ehlo Possible replies include:
31 ehlo SEND Send as mail [RFC821]
32 ehlo SOML Send as mail or terminal [RFC821]
33 ehlo SAML Send as mail and terminal [RFC821]
34 ehlo EXPN Expand the mailing list [RFC821]
35 ehlo HELP Supply helpful information [RFC821]
36 ehlo TURN Turn the operation around [RFC821]
37 ehlo 8BITMIME Use 8-bit data [RFC1652]
38 ehlo SIZE Message size declaration [RFC1870]
39 ehlo VERB Verbose [Allman]
40 ehlo CHUNKING Chunking [RFC1830]
41 ehlo BINARYMIME Binary MIME [RFC1830]
42 ehlo PIPELINING Command Pipelining [RFC1854]
43 ehlo DSN Delivery Status Notification [RFC1891]
44 ehlo ETRN Remote Message Queue Starting [RFC1985]
45 ehlo STARTTLS Secure SMTP [RFC2487]
46 ehlo ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES Enhanced status codes [RFC2034]
47 ehlo DELIVERBY Deliver By [RFC2852]
48 mail MAIL From:<sender> [ <parameters> ]
49 mail Specifies the sender. Parameters are ESMTP extensions.
50 mail See "HELP DSN" for details.
51 rcpt RCPT To:<recipient> [ <parameters> ]
52 rcpt Specifies the recipient. Can be used any number of times.
53 rcpt Parameters are ESMTP extensions. See "HELP DSN" for details.
54 data DATA
55 data Following text is collected as the message.
56 data End with a single dot.
57 rset RSET
58 rset Resets the system.
59 quit QUIT
60 quit Exit sendmail (SMTP).
61 starttls STARTTLS
62 starttls Start TLS negotiation.
63 verb VERB
64 verb Go into verbose mode. This sends 0xy responses that are
65 verb not RFC821 standard (but should be) They are recognized
66 verb by humans and other sendmail implementations.
67 vrfy VRFY <recipient>
68 vrfy Verify an address. If you want to see what it aliases
69 vrfy to, use EXPN instead.
70 expn EXPN <recipient>
71 expn Expand an address. If the address indicates a mailing
72 expn list, return the contents of that list.
73 noop NOOP
74 noop Do nothing.
75 send SEND FROM:<sender>
76 send replaces the MAIL command, and can be used to send
77 send directly to a users terminal. Not supported in this
78 send implementation.
79 soml SOML FROM:<sender>
80 soml Send or mail. If the user is logged in, send directly,
81 soml otherwise mail. Not supported in this implementation.
82 saml SAML FROM:<sender>
83 saml Send and mail. Send directly to the user's terminal,
84 saml and also mail a letter. Not supported in this
85 saml implementation.
86 turn TURN
87 turn Reverses the direction of the connection. Not currently
88 turn implemented.
89 etrn ETRN [ <hostname> | @<domain> | \#<queuename> ]
90 etrn Run the queue for the specified <hostname>, or
91 etrn all hosts within a given <domain>, or a specially-named
92 etrn <queuename> (implementation-specific).
93 dsn MAIL From:<sender> [ RET={ FULL | HDRS} ] [ ENVID=<envid> ]
94 dsn RCPT To:<recipient> [ NOTIFY={NEVER,SUCCESS,FAILURE,DELAY} ]
95 dsn [ ORCPT=<recipient> ]
96 dsn SMTP Delivery Status Notifications.
97 dsn Descriptions:
98 dsn RET Return either the full message or only headers.
99 dsn ENVID Sender's "envelope identifier" for tracking.
100 dsn NOTIFY When to send a DSN. Multiple options are OK, comma-
101 dsn delimited. NEVER must appear by itself.
102 dsn ORCPT Original recipient.
103 -bt Help for test mode:
104 -bt ? :this help message.
105 -bt .Dmvalue :define macro `m' to `value'.
106 -bt .Ccvalue :add `value' to class `c'.
107 -bt =Sruleset :dump the contents of the indicated ruleset.
108 -bt =M :display the known mailers.
109 -bt -ddebug-spec :equivalent to the command-line -d debug flag.
110 -bt $$m :print the value of macro $$m.
111 -bt $$=c :print the contents of class $$=c.
112 -bt /mx host :returns the MX records for `host'.
113 -bt /parse address :parse address, returning the value of crackaddr, and
114 -bt the parsed address.
115 -bt /try mailer addr :rewrite address into the form it will have when
116 -bt presented to the indicated mailer.
117 -bt /tryflags flags :set flags used by parsing. The flags can be `H' for
118 -bt Header or `E' for Envelope, and `S' for Sender or `R'
119 -bt for Recipient. These can be combined, `HR' sets
120 -bt flags for header recipients.
121 -bt /canon hostname :try to canonify hostname.
122 -bt /map mapname key :look up `key' in the indicated `mapname'.
123 -bt /quit :quit address test mode.
124 -bt rules addr :run the indicated address through the named rules.
125 -bt Rules can be a comma separated list of rules.
126 control Help for smcontrol:
127 control help This message.
128 control restart Restart sendmail.
129 control shutdown Shutdown sendmail.
130 control status Show sendmail status.
131 control mstat Show sendmail status (machine readable format).
132 control memdump Dump allocated memory list (for debugging only).