1#vers 2 2cpyr 3cpyr Copyright (c) 1998-2000, 2002, 2004-2007 Proofpoint, 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 $$Id: helpfile,v 8.49 2013-11-22 20:51:55 ca Exp $$ 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 see 24smtp http://www.sendmail.org/email-addresses.html 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 CHUNKING Chunking [RFC1830] 43ehlo BINARYMIME Binary MIME [RFC1830] 44ehlo PIPELINING Command Pipelining [RFC1854] 45ehlo DSN Delivery Status Notification [RFC1891] 46ehlo ETRN Remote Message Queue Starting [RFC1985] 47ehlo STARTTLS Secure SMTP [RFC2487] 48ehlo AUTH Authentication [RFC2554] 49ehlo ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES Enhanced status codes [RFC2034] 50ehlo DELIVERBY Deliver By [RFC2852] 51mail MAIL From:<sender> [ <parameters> ] 52mail Specifies the sender. Parameters are ESMTP extensions. 53mail See "HELP DSN" for details. 54rcpt RCPT To:<recipient> [ <parameters> ] 55rcpt Specifies the recipient. Can be used any number of times. 56rcpt Parameters are ESMTP extensions. See "HELP DSN" for details. 57data DATA 58data Following text is collected as the message. 59data End with a single dot. 60rset RSET 61rset Resets the system. 62quit QUIT 63quit Exit sendmail (SMTP). 64auth AUTH mechanism [initial-response] 65auth Start authentication. 66starttls STARTTLS 67starttls Start TLS negotiation. 68verb VERB 69verb Go into verbose mode. This sends 0xy responses that are 70verb not RFC821 standard (but should be) They are recognized 71verb by humans and other sendmail implementations. 72vrfy VRFY <recipient> 73vrfy Verify an address. If you want to see what it aliases 74vrfy to, use EXPN instead. 75expn EXPN <recipient> 76expn Expand an address. If the address indicates a mailing 77expn list, return the contents of that list. 78noop NOOP 79noop Do nothing. 80send SEND FROM:<sender> 81send replaces the MAIL command, and can be used to send 82send directly to a users terminal. Not supported in this 83send implementation. 84soml SOML FROM:<sender> 85soml Send or mail. If the user is logged in, send directly, 86soml otherwise mail. Not supported in this implementation. 87saml SAML FROM:<sender> 88saml Send and mail. Send directly to the user's terminal, 89saml and also mail a letter. Not supported in this 90saml implementation. 91turn TURN 92turn Reverses the direction of the connection. Not currently 93turn implemented. 94etrn ETRN [ <hostname> | @<domain> | \#<queuename> ] 95etrn Run the queue for the specified <hostname>, or 96etrn all hosts within a given <domain>, or a specially-named 97etrn <queuename> (implementation-specific). 98dsn MAIL From:<sender> [ RET={ FULL | HDRS} ] [ ENVID=<envid> ] 99dsn RCPT To:<recipient> [ NOTIFY={NEVER,SUCCESS,FAILURE,DELAY} ] 100dsn [ ORCPT=<recipient> ] 101dsn SMTP Delivery Status Notifications. 102dsn Descriptions: 103dsn RET Return either the full message or only headers. 104dsn ENVID Sender's "envelope identifier" for tracking. 105dsn NOTIFY When to send a DSN. Multiple options are OK, comma- 106dsn delimited. NEVER must appear by itself. 107dsn 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. 131control Help for smcontrol: 132control help This message. 133control restart Restart sendmail. 134control shutdown Shutdown sendmail. 135control status Show sendmail status. 136control mstat Show sendmail status (machine readable format). 137control memdump Dump allocated memory list (for debugging only). 138