NAME¶
esmtprc -
esmtp configuration file.
DESCRIPTION¶
A
esmtp configuration file consists of several options. The options
format is:
keyword=value
The equal sign is optional and can be replaced by whitespace. The
value
may be enclosed in simple or double quotes, in which case special characters
can be escaped as in normal C strings.
Comments are delimited by the '#' character up to the newline character.
OPTIONS¶
- hostname
- Set SMTP host and service (port).
The format is:
host.example.org[: service]
With no whitespace surrounding the colon if service is specified.
service may be a name from /etc/services or a decimal port number.
If not specified the port defaults to 587.
Note (from libESMTP documentation): the default port number is set to
587 since this is the port that should be used for mail submission, see
RFC 2476. By choosing this default now, the API does not change behavior
unexpectedly in the future as use of the new standard becomes commonplace.
The host-port notation simplifies things for the application, the user can
type "localhost:smtp" or "localhost:25" where the
application expects a host name.
- username
- Set the username for authentication with the SMTP server.
Do NOT set the username and password in the system configuration file unless
you are the only user of this machine. Esmtp is not run with suid
privileges therefore the system configuration file must be readable by
everyone. If your SMTP server requires authentication and you are not the
only user then specify your personal SMTP account details in the user
configuration file.
- password
- Set the password for authentication with the SMTP server.
- starttls
- Whether to use the StartTLS extension.
It can be one of enabled, disabled or required. It
defaults to disabled.
- certificate_passphrase
- Set the certificate passphrase for the StartTLS extension.
- helo
- Set the hostname to identify as when sending HELO or EHLO commands. (This
is a per identity option, as it should be the name you are seen as from
the connected host, which may vary with host to host due to NAT or
different naming schemes).
- qualifydomain
- Make all local addresses to remote ones by adding @ and this name.
- force sender
- Set a "Sender:" header and ignore those in the message.
"%u" will be replaced with the username. "%%" by
"%".
- force reverse_path
- Set the envelope from address. The address given to -f will only be used
as "From:" when the message contains none. "%u" will
be replaced with the username. "%%" by "%".
- message_id
- Whether to set the Message-ID field of the message before sending.
Normally the receiving MTA sets the Message-ID if missing, so you can turn
this off if your sending host does not have a fully qualified domain name.
Allowed values are either enabled or disabled. It defaults to
enabled
- preconnect
- Shell command to execute prior to opening an SMTP connection.
This may be useful in conjunction with application-level transports (e.g.
ssh with its port-forwarding functionality) to secure the SMTP
connection. Esmtp will wait for the command to exit before
proceeding. If the command returns a non-zero status, delivery will be
aborted.
- identity
- Define an identity.
An identity is a set of options associated with a given address. For
example:
identity = myself@somewhere.com
hostname = smtp.somewhere.com:25
username = "myself"
password = "secret"
Identities are be selected by the address specified in the -f flag.
You can have as many you like.
The options in the global section (up to the first identity option)
constitute the default identity. If no options in the global section are
given then the first defined identity is taken as the default one.
Note that the default identity settings are not shared by the other
identities. Everything (username, password, etc.) must be specified for
every identity even if they don't differ from the default identity.
- mda
- Set the Mail Delivery Agent (MDA).
Esmtp relies upon a MDA for local mail delivery, i.e., addresses
without a '@' character. A non-zero error status tells esmtp that
delivery failed.
The local delivery addresses will be inserted into the MDA command wherever
you place a %T. The mail message's From address will be inserted
where you place an %F.
Some common MDAs are "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T",
"/usr/bin/deliver" and "/usr/lib/mail.local %T".
- force_mda
- Force mail to be delivered by the MDA.
When set, any mail from anywhere to anywhere will instead be delivered to
the value of force_mda. It will also only be delivered locally, via the
mda. This will let you have a very minimal mail set-up, which can ONLY
handle local mail.
For example:
mda = "procmail -d %T"
force_mda = " someuser"
SEE ALSO¶
esmtp(1)
AUTHOR¶
José Fonseca