NAME¶
innmail - Simple mail-sending program
SYNOPSIS¶
innmail [
-h] [
-s subject]
address
[
address ...]
DESCRIPTION¶
innmail is a Perl script intended to provide the non-interactive
mail-sending functionality of
mail(1) while avoiding nasty security
problems. It takes the body of a mail message on standard input and sends it
to the specified addresses by invoking the value of
mta in
inn.conf.
At least one address (formatted for the MTA specified in
inn.conf, if it
matters) is required.
innmail will sanitize the addresses so that they
contain only alphanumerics and the symbols "@", ".",
"-", "+", "_", and "%".
innmail was written to be suitable for the
mailcmd setting in
inn.conf.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- Gives usage information.
- -s subject
- Sets the Subject: header of the message. A warning is issued if this
option is omitted.
EXAMPLES¶
This sends a one-line message to the local user "joe":
echo "A one-line message." | innmail -s "Simple message" joe
innmail by default is used by INN for sending nightly reports and control
message reports.
BUGS¶
innmail fails on addresses that begin with "-", although one
might hope that the news server will not need to contact any such addresses.
There are many "correct" addresses that will be silently modified by
the sanitization process. A news administrator should be careful to use
particularly sane addresses if they may be passed to
innmail.
HISTORY¶
innmail was written by James Brister <brister@vix.com> for
InterNetNews. This manual page was originally written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur.
$Id: innmail.pod 7851 2008-05-26 19:33:08Z iulius $
SEE ALSO¶
inn.conf(5),
mail(1).