3 cpyr Copyright (c) 1998-2000, 2002, 2004-2007 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
4 cpyr All rights reserved.
5 cpyr Copyright (c) 1983, 1995-1997 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved.
6 cpyr Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
7 cpyr The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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11 cpyr forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
12 cpyr the sendmail distribution.
14 cpyr $$Id: helpfile,v 8.48 2007/02/01 18:29:44 ca Exp $$
16 smtp This is sendmail version $v
18 smtp HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA
19 smtp RSET NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY
20 smtp EXPN VERB ETRN DSN AUTH
22 smtp For more info use "HELP <topic>".
23 smtp To report bugs in the implementation see
24 smtp http://www.sendmail.org/email-addresses.html
25 smtp For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
27 help The HELP command gives help info.
29 helo Introduce yourself.
31 ehlo Introduce yourself, and request extended SMTP mode.
32 ehlo Possible replies include:
33 ehlo SEND Send as mail [RFC821]
34 ehlo SOML Send as mail or terminal [RFC821]
35 ehlo SAML Send as mail and terminal [RFC821]
36 ehlo EXPN Expand the mailing list [RFC821]
37 ehlo HELP Supply helpful information [RFC821]
38 ehlo TURN Turn the operation around [RFC821]
39 ehlo 8BITMIME Use 8-bit data [RFC1652]
40 ehlo SIZE Message size declaration [RFC1870]
41 ehlo VERB Verbose [Allman]
42 ehlo CHUNKING Chunking [RFC1830]
43 ehlo BINARYMIME Binary MIME [RFC1830]
44 ehlo PIPELINING Command Pipelining [RFC1854]
45 ehlo DSN Delivery Status Notification [RFC1891]
46 ehlo ETRN Remote Message Queue Starting [RFC1985]
47 ehlo STARTTLS Secure SMTP [RFC2487]
48 ehlo AUTH Authentication [RFC2554]
49 ehlo ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES Enhanced status codes [RFC2034]
50 ehlo DELIVERBY Deliver By [RFC2852]
51 mail MAIL From:<sender> [ <parameters> ]
52 mail Specifies the sender. Parameters are ESMTP extensions.
53 mail See "HELP DSN" for details.
54 rcpt RCPT To:<recipient> [ <parameters> ]
55 rcpt Specifies the recipient. Can be used any number of times.
56 rcpt Parameters are ESMTP extensions. See "HELP DSN" for details.
58 data Following text is collected as the message.
59 data End with a single dot.
61 rset Resets the system.
63 quit Exit sendmail (SMTP).
64 auth AUTH mechanism [initial-response]
65 auth Start authentication.
67 starttls Start TLS negotiation.
69 verb Go into verbose mode. This sends 0xy responses that are
70 verb not RFC821 standard (but should be) They are recognized
71 verb by humans and other sendmail implementations.
73 vrfy Verify an address. If you want to see what it aliases
74 vrfy to, use EXPN instead.
76 expn Expand an address. If the address indicates a mailing
77 expn list, return the contents of that list.
80 send SEND FROM:<sender>
81 send replaces the MAIL command, and can be used to send
82 send directly to a users terminal. Not supported in this
84 soml SOML FROM:<sender>
85 soml Send or mail. If the user is logged in, send directly,
86 soml otherwise mail. Not supported in this implementation.
87 saml SAML FROM:<sender>
88 saml Send and mail. Send directly to the user's terminal,
89 saml and also mail a letter. Not supported in this
92 turn Reverses the direction of the connection. Not currently
94 etrn ETRN [ <hostname> | @<domain> | \#<queuename> ]
95 etrn Run the queue for the specified <hostname>, or
96 etrn all hosts within a given <domain>, or a specially-named
97 etrn <queuename> (implementation-specific).
98 dsn MAIL From:<sender> [ RET={ FULL | HDRS} ] [ ENVID=<envid> ]
99 dsn RCPT To:<recipient> [ NOTIFY={NEVER,SUCCESS,FAILURE,DELAY} ]
100 dsn [ ORCPT=<recipient> ]
101 dsn SMTP Delivery Status Notifications.
103 dsn RET Return either the full message or only headers.
104 dsn ENVID Sender's "envelope identifier" for tracking.
105 dsn NOTIFY When to send a DSN. Multiple options are OK, comma-
106 dsn delimited. NEVER must appear by itself.
107 dsn ORCPT Original recipient.
108 -bt Help for test mode:
109 -bt ? :this help message.
110 -bt .Dmvalue :define macro `m' to `value'.
111 -bt .Ccvalue :add `value' to class `c'.
112 -bt =Sruleset :dump the contents of the indicated ruleset.
113 -bt =M :display the known mailers.
114 -bt -ddebug-spec :equivalent to the command-line -d debug flag.
115 -bt $$m :print the value of macro $$m.
116 -bt $$=c :print the contents of class $$=c.
117 -bt /mx host :returns the MX records for `host'.
118 -bt /parse address :parse address, returning the value of crackaddr, and
119 -bt the parsed address.
120 -bt /try mailer addr :rewrite address into the form it will have when
121 -bt presented to the indicated mailer.
122 -bt /tryflags flags :set flags used by parsing. The flags can be `H' for
123 -bt Header or `E' for Envelope, and `S' for Sender or `R'
124 -bt for Recipient. These can be combined, `HR' sets
125 -bt flags for header recipients.
126 -bt /canon hostname :try to canonify hostname.
127 -bt /map mapname key :look up `key' in the indicated `mapname'.
128 -bt /quit :quit address test mode.
129 -bt rules addr :run the indicated address through the named rules.
130 -bt Rules can be a comma separated list of rules.
131 control Help for smcontrol:
132 control help This message.
133 control restart Restart sendmail.
134 control shutdown Shutdown sendmail.
135 control status Show sendmail status.
136 control mstat Show sendmail status (machine readable format).
137 control memdump Dump allocated memory list (for debugging only).