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1#vers 2 2cpyr 3cpyr Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers. 4cpyr All rights reserved. 5cpyr Copyright (c) 1983, 1995-1997 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved. 6cpyr Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 7cpyr The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 8cpyr 9cpyr 10cpyr By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set 11cpyr forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of 12cpyr the sendmail distribution. 13cpyr 14cpyr $$Id: helpfile,v 8.31.16.3 2000/07/19 18:54:55 gshapiro Exp $$ 15cpyr 16smtp This is sendmail version $v 17smtp Topics: 18smtp HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA 19smtp RSET NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY 20smtp EXPN VERB ETRN DSN AUTH 21smtp STARTTLS 22smtp For more info use "HELP <topic>". 23smtp To report bugs in the implementation send email to 24smtp sendmail-bugs@sendmail.org. 25smtp For local information send email to Postmaster at your site. 26help HELP [ <topic> ] 27help The HELP command gives help info. 28helo HELO <hostname> 29helo Introduce yourself. 30ehlo EHLO <hostname> 31ehlo Introduce yourself, and request extended SMTP mode. 32ehlo Possible replies include: 33ehlo SEND Send as mail [RFC821] 34ehlo SOML Send as mail or terminal [RFC821] 35ehlo SAML Send as mail and terminal [RFC821] 36ehlo EXPN Expand the mailing list [RFC821] 37ehlo HELP Supply helpful information [RFC821] 38ehlo TURN Turn the operation around [RFC821] 39ehlo 8BITMIME Use 8-bit data [RFC1652] 40ehlo SIZE Message size declaration [RFC1870] 41ehlo VERB Verbose [Allman] 42ehlo ONEX One message transaction only [Allman] 43ehlo CHUNKING Chunking [RFC1830] 44ehlo BINARYMIME Binary MIME [RFC1830] 45ehlo PIPELINING Command Pipelining [RFC1854] 46ehlo DSN Delivery Status Notification [RFC1891] 47ehlo ETRN Remote Message Queue Starting [RFC1985] 48ehlo STARTTLS Secure SMTP [RFC2487] 49ehlo AUTH Authentication [RFC2554] 50ehlo XUSR Initial (user) submission [Allman] 51ehlo ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES Enhanced status codes [RFC2034] 52mail MAIL FROM: <sender> [ <parameters> ] 53mail Specifies the sender. Parameters are ESMTP extensions. 54mail See "HELP DSN" for details. 55rcpt RCPT TO: <recipient> [ <parameters> ] 56rcpt Specifies the recipient. Can be used any number of times. 57rcpt Parameters are ESMTP extensions. See "HELP DSN" for details. 58data DATA 59data Following text is collected as the message. 60data End with a single dot. 61rset RSET 62rset Resets the system. 63quit QUIT 64quit Exit sendmail (SMTP). 65auth AUTH mechanism [initial-response] 66auth Start authentication. 67starttls STARTTLS 68starttls Start TLS negotiation. 69verb VERB 70verb Go into verbose mode. This sends 0xy responses that are 71verb not RFC821 standard (but should be) They are recognized 72verb by humans and other sendmail implementations. 73vrfy VRFY <recipient> 74vrfy Verify an address. If you want to see what it aliases 75vrfy to, use EXPN instead. 76expn EXPN <recipient> 77expn Expand an address. If the address indicates a mailing 78expn list, return the contents of that list. 79noop NOOP 80noop Do nothing. 81send SEND FROM: <sender> 82send replaces the MAIL command, and can be used to send 83send directly to a users terminal. Not supported in this 84send implementation. 85soml SOML FROM: <sender> 86soml Send or mail. If the user is logged in, send directly, 87soml otherwise mail. Not supported in this implementation. 88saml SAML FROM: <sender> 89saml Send and mail. Send directly to the user's terminal, 90saml and also mail a letter. Not supported in this 91saml implementation. 92turn TURN 93turn Reverses the direction of the connection. Not currently 94turn implemented. 95etrn ETRN [ <hostname> | @<domain> | #<queuename> ] 96etrn Run the queue for the specified <hostname>, or 97etrn all hosts within a given <domain>, or a specially-named 98etrn <queuename> (implementation-specific). 99dsn MAIL FROM: <sender> [ RET={ FULL | HDRS} ] [ ENVID=<envid> ] 100dsn RCPT TO: <recipient> [ NOTIFY={NEVER,SUCCESS,FAILURE,DELAY} ] 101dsn [ ORCPT=<recipient> ] 102dsn SMTP Delivery Status Notifications. 103dsn Descriptions: 104dsn RET Return either the full message or only headers. 105dsn ENVID Sender's "envelope identifier" for tracking. 106dsn NOTIFY When to send a DSN. Multiple options are OK, comma- 107dsn delimited. NEVER must appear by itself. 108dsn ORCPT Original recipient. 109-bt Help for test mode: 110-bt ? :this help message. 111-bt .Dmvalue :define macro `m' to `value'. 112-bt .Ccvalue :add `value' to class `c'. 113-bt =Sruleset :dump the contents of the indicated ruleset. 114-bt =M :display the known mailers. 115-bt -ddebug-spec :equivalent to the command-line -d debug flag. 116-bt $$m :print the value of macro $$m. 117-bt $$=c :print the contents of class $$=c. 118-bt /mx host :returns the MX records for `host'. 119-bt /parse address :parse address, returning the value of crackaddr, and 120-bt the parsed address. 121-bt /try mailer addr :rewrite address into the form it will have when 122-bt presented to the indicated mailer. 123-bt /tryflags flags :set flags used by parsing. The flags can be `H' for 124-bt Header or `E' for Envelope, and `S' for Sender or `R' 125-bt for Recipient. These can be combined, `HR' sets 126-bt flags for header recipients. 127-bt /canon hostname :try to canonify hostname. 128-bt /map mapname key :look up `key' in the indicated `mapname'. 129-bt /quit :quit address test mode. 130-bt rules addr :run the indicated address through the named rules. 131-bt Rules can be a comma separated list of rules. 132control Help for smcontrol: 133control help This message. 134control restart Restart sendmail. 135control shutdown Shutdown sendmail. 136control status Show sendmail status. 137