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1N/Acpyr ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI"
1N/Acpyr $$Id: helpfile,v 8.47 2006/04/26 18:22:54 ca Exp $$
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1N/Asmtp This is sendmail version $v
1N/Asmtp Topics:
1N/Asmtp HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA
1N/Asmtp RSET NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY
1N/Asmtp EXPN VERB ETRN DSN STARTTLS
1N/Asmtp For more info use "HELP <topic>".
1N/Asmtp To report bugs in the implementation contact Sun Microsystems
1N/Asmtp Technical Support.
1N/Asmtp For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
1N/Ahelp HELP [ <topic> ]
1N/Ahelp The HELP command gives help info.
1N/Ahelo HELO <hostname>
1N/Ahelo Introduce yourself.
1N/Aehlo EHLO <hostname>
1N/Aehlo Introduce yourself, and request extended SMTP mode.
1N/Aehlo Possible replies include:
1N/Aehlo SEND Send as mail [RFC821]
1N/Aehlo SOML Send as mail or terminal [RFC821]
1N/Aehlo SAML Send as mail and terminal [RFC821]
1N/Aehlo EXPN Expand the mailing list [RFC821]
1N/Aehlo HELP Supply helpful information [RFC821]
1N/Aehlo TURN Turn the operation around [RFC821]
1N/Aehlo 8BITMIME Use 8-bit data [RFC1652]
1N/Aehlo SIZE Message size declaration [RFC1870]
1N/Aehlo VERB Verbose [Allman]
1N/Aehlo CHUNKING Chunking [RFC1830]
1N/Aehlo BINARYMIME Binary MIME [RFC1830]
1N/Aehlo PIPELINING Command Pipelining [RFC1854]
1N/Aehlo DSN Delivery Status Notification [RFC1891]
1N/Aehlo ETRN Remote Message Queue Starting [RFC1985]
1N/Aehlo STARTTLS Secure SMTP [RFC2487]
1N/Aehlo ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES Enhanced status codes [RFC2034]
1N/Aehlo DELIVERBY Deliver By [RFC2852]
1N/Amail MAIL From:<sender> [ <parameters> ]
1N/Amail Specifies the sender. Parameters are ESMTP extensions.
1N/Amail See "HELP DSN" for details.
1N/Arcpt RCPT To:<recipient> [ <parameters> ]
1N/Arcpt Specifies the recipient. Can be used any number of times.
1N/Arcpt Parameters are ESMTP extensions. See "HELP DSN" for details.
1N/Adata DATA
1N/Adata Following text is collected as the message.
1N/Adata End with a single dot.
1N/Arset RSET
1N/Arset Resets the system.
1N/Aquit QUIT
1N/Aquit Exit sendmail (SMTP).
1N/Astarttls STARTTLS
1N/Astarttls Start TLS negotiation.
1N/Averb VERB
1N/Averb Go into verbose mode. This sends 0xy responses that are
1N/Averb not RFC821 standard (but should be) They are recognized
1N/Averb by humans and other sendmail implementations.
1N/Avrfy VRFY <recipient>
1N/Avrfy Verify an address. If you want to see what it aliases
1N/Avrfy to, use EXPN instead.
1N/Aexpn EXPN <recipient>
1N/Aexpn Expand an address. If the address indicates a mailing
1N/Aexpn list, return the contents of that list.
1N/Anoop NOOP
1N/Anoop Do nothing.
1N/Asend SEND FROM:<sender>
1N/Asend replaces the MAIL command, and can be used to send
1N/Asend directly to a users terminal. Not supported in this
1N/Asend implementation.
1N/Asoml SOML FROM:<sender>
1N/Asoml Send or mail. If the user is logged in, send directly,
1N/Asoml otherwise mail. Not supported in this implementation.
1N/Asaml SAML FROM:<sender>
1N/Asaml Send and mail. Send directly to the user's terminal,
1N/Asaml and also mail a letter. Not supported in this
1N/Asaml implementation.
1N/Aturn TURN
1N/Aturn Reverses the direction of the connection. Not currently
1N/Aturn implemented.
1N/Aetrn ETRN [ <hostname> | @<domain> | \#<queuename> ]
1N/Aetrn Run the queue for the specified <hostname>, or
1N/Aetrn all hosts within a given <domain>, or a specially-named
1N/Aetrn <queuename> (implementation-specific).
1N/Adsn MAIL From:<sender> [ RET={ FULL | HDRS} ] [ ENVID=<envid> ]
1N/Adsn RCPT To:<recipient> [ NOTIFY={NEVER,SUCCESS,FAILURE,DELAY} ]
1N/Adsn [ ORCPT=<recipient> ]
1N/Adsn SMTP Delivery Status Notifications.
1N/Adsn Descriptions:
1N/Adsn RET Return either the full message or only headers.
1N/Adsn ENVID Sender's "envelope identifier" for tracking.
1N/Adsn NOTIFY When to send a DSN. Multiple options are OK, comma-
1N/Adsn delimited. NEVER must appear by itself.
1N/Adsn ORCPT Original recipient.
1N/A-bt Help for test mode:
1N/A-bt ? :this help message.
1N/A-bt .Dmvalue :define macro `m' to `value'.
1N/A-bt .Ccvalue :add `value' to class `c'.
1N/A-bt =Sruleset :dump the contents of the indicated ruleset.
1N/A-bt =M :display the known mailers.
1N/A-bt -ddebug-spec :equivalent to the command-line -d debug flag.
1N/A-bt $$m :print the value of macro $$m.
1N/A-bt $$=c :print the contents of class $$=c.
1N/A-bt /mx host :returns the MX records for `host'.
1N/A-bt /parse address :parse address, returning the value of crackaddr, and
1N/A-bt the parsed address.
1N/A-bt /try mailer addr :rewrite address into the form it will have when
1N/A-bt presented to the indicated mailer.
1N/A-bt /tryflags flags :set flags used by parsing. The flags can be `H' for
1N/A-bt Header or `E' for Envelope, and `S' for Sender or `R'
1N/A-bt for Recipient. These can be combined, `HR' sets
1N/A-bt flags for header recipients.
1N/A-bt /canon hostname :try to canonify hostname.
1N/A-bt /map mapname key :look up `key' in the indicated `mapname'.
1N/A-bt /quit :quit address test mode.
1N/A-bt rules addr :run the indicated address through the named rules.
1N/A-bt Rules can be a comma separated list of rules.
1N/Acontrol Help for smcontrol:
1N/Acontrol help This message.
1N/Acontrol restart Restart sendmail.
1N/Acontrol shutdown Shutdown sendmail.
1N/Acontrol status Show sendmail status.
1N/Acontrol memdump Dump allocated memory list (for debugging only).
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