.TH ftpmail 1 "March 2011"
.\" Process with
.\" groff -man -Tascii ftpmail.1 
.\"
.SH NAME
ftpmail \- FIFO-based Perl script for sending email based on proftpd TransferLog
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ftpmail
[
.B \--help
] [
.B \--fifo
.I "fifo-path"
] [
.B \--from
.I "email-address"
] [
.B \--log
.I "xferlog-file"
] [
.B \--recipient
.I "email-address"
] [
.B \--subject
.I "email-subject"
] [
.B \--smtp-server
.I "server-address"
] [
.B \--attach-file
] [
.B \--auth
.I "smtp-auth-info-file"
] [
.B \--ignore-users
.I "regex-pattern"
] [
.B \--watch-users
.I "regex-pattern"
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B ftpmail
is a Perl script designed to read ProFTPD's \fITransferLog\fP log entries,
watching for uploads, and to send an automatic email notification when uploads
occur.  To use
.B ftpmail
, you configure your
.B proftpd
daemon to write its \fITransferLog\fP to a FIFO; the
.B ftpmail
program is a FIFO reading program which then processes those log messages.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 12
.B \--help
Display a short usage description, including all available options.
.TP
.B \--attach-file
If used, this will cause a copy of the uploaded file to be included, as an
attachment, in the generated email.
.TP
.BI \--auth " smtp-auth-info-file"
Configures the path to a file containing SMTP authentication information.
The configured file should look like this:
.RS
.RS
.PD 0
.TP 10
.B user
username
.TP
.B password
password
.PD
.RE
.RE
.TP
.BI \--fifo " fifo-path"
Indicates the path to the FIFO to which
.B proftpd
is writing its \fBTransferLog\fP.  That is, this is the path that you used for
the \fBTransferLog\fP directive in your \fIproftpd.conf\fP.  This parameter is
.B REQUIRED.
.TP
.BI \--from " email-address"
Specifies the email address to use in the
.I From
email header.  This parameter is
.B REQUIRED.
.TP
.BI \--ignore-users " regex-pattern"
Specifies a Perl regular expression.  If the uploading user name matches this
regular expression, then an email notification is \fBNOT\fP sent; otherwise,
an email is sent.
.TP
.BI \--log " xferlog-path"
Since this script reads the \fBTransferLog\fP using FIFOs, the actual
\fBTransferLog\fP file is not written by default.  Use this option to write the
normal \fBTransferLog\fP file, in addition to watching for uploads.
.TP
.BI \--recipient " email-address"
Specifies an email address to which to send an email notification of the upload.
This option can be used multiple times to specify multiple recipients.
.B AT LEAST ONE
recipient is
.B REQUIRED.
.TP
.BI \--smtp-server " server-address"
Specifies the SMTP server to which to send the email.  This parameter is
.B REQUIRED.
.TP
.BI \--subject " subject"
Specify a custom \fISubject\fP email header for the email sent.  The default
\fISubject\fP is:
.RS
.RS
.PD 0
.TP 10
User '\fI$user\fP' uploaded file '\fI$file\fP' via FTP
.PD
.RE
.RE
.TP
.BI \--watch-users " regex-pattern"
Specifies a Perl regular expression.  If the uploading user name matches this
regular expression, then an email notification is sent; otherwise, no email is
sent.
.SH FILES
.PD 0
.B /var/log/xferlog
.PD
.SH AUTHORS
.PP
ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people, full credits
can be found on
.BR http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html
.PD
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR proftpd(8),
.BR xferlog(5)
.PP
Full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs, is available at
.BR http://www.proftpd.org/
.PP 
For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on
.BR http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html
.PP
Report bugs at
.BR http://bugs.proftpd.org/