.TH qmail-remote 8 .SH NAME qmail-remote \- send mail via SMTP .SH SYNOPSIS .B qmail-remote .I host .I sender .I recip [ .I recip ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B qmail-remote reads a mail message from its input and sends the message to one or more recipients at a remote host. The remote host is .BR qmail-remote 's first argument, .IR host . .B qmail-remote sends the message to .IR host , or to a mail exchanger for .I host listed in the Domain Name System, via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). .I host can be either a fully-qualified domain name: .EX silverton.berkeley.edu .EE or an IP address enclosed in brackets: .EX [128.32.183.163] .EE The envelope recipient addresses are listed as .I recip arguments to .BR qmail-remote . The envelope sender address is listed as .I sender\fP. Note that .B qmail-remote does not take options and does not follow the .B getopt standard. .SH TRANSPARENCY End-of-file in SMTP is encoded as dot CR LF. A dot at the beginning of a line is encoded as dot dot. It is impossible in SMTP to send a message that does not end with a newline. .B qmail-remote converts the UNIX newline convention into the SMTP newline convention by inserting CR before each LF. It is a violation of the SMTP protocol to send a message that contains long lines or non-ASCII characters. However, .B qmail-remote will happily send such messages. It is the user's responsibility to avoid generating illegal messages. .SH "RESULTS" .B qmail-remote prints some number of .I recipient reports\fP, followed by a .I message report\fR. Each report is terminated by a 0 byte. Each report begins with a single letter: .TP 5 r Recipient report: acceptance. .TP 5 h Recipient report: permanent rejection. .TP 5 s Recipient report: temporary rejection. .TP 5 K Message report: success. .I host has taken responsibility for delivering the message to each acceptable recipient. .TP 5 Z Message report: temporary failure. .TP 5 D Message report: permanent failure. .PP After this letter comes a human-readable description of what happened. The recipient reports will always be printed in the same order as .BR qmail-remote 's .I recip arguments. Note that in failure cases there may be fewer recipient reports than .I recip arguments. .B qmail-remote always exits zero. .SH "CONTROL FILES" .TP 5 .I helohost Current host name, for use solely in saying hello to the remote SMTP server. Default: .IR me , if that is supplied; otherwise .B qmail-remote refuses to run. .TP 5 .I smtproutes Artificial SMTP routes. Each route has the form .IR domain\fB:\fIrelay , without any extra spaces. If .I domain matches .IR host , .B qmail-remote will connect to .IR relay , as if .I host had .I relay as its only MX. (It will also avoid doing any CNAME lookups on .IR recip .) .I host may include a colon and a port number to use instead of the normal SMTP port, 25: .EX inside.af.mil:firewall.af.mil:26 .EE .I relay may be empty; this tells .B qmail-remote to look up MX records as usual. .I smtproutes may include wildcards: .EX .af.mil: :heaven.af.mil .EE Here any address ending with .B .af.mil (but not .B af.mil itself) is routed by its MX records; any other address is artificially routed to .BR heaven.af.mil . The .B qmail system does not protect you if you create an artificial mail loop between machines. However, you are always safe using .I smtproutes if you do not accept mail from the network. .TP 5 .I timeoutconnect Number of seconds .B qmail-remote will wait for the remote SMTP server to accept a connection. Default: 60. The kernel normally imposes a 75-second upper limit. .TP 5 .I timeoutremote Number of seconds .B qmail-remote will wait for each response from the remote SMTP server. Default: 1200. .SH "SEE ALSO" addresses(5), envelopes(5), qmail-control(5), qmail-send(8), qmail-smtpd(8), qmail-tcpok(8), qmail-tcpto(8)