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authorGilles Chehade <gilles@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-11-01 21:35:29 +0000
committerGilles Chehade <gilles@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-11-01 21:35:29 +0000
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parent368a4360af103cf67185c23d8061bab692a57b91 (diff)
smtpd is a smtp server implementation for OpenBSD. It is a work in progress
which still lacks many features. bringing it in tree will help working on it more easily. "at this stage it should go in" henning@, "move ahead" deraadt@
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+.\" $OpenBSD: smtpd.8,v 1.1 2008/11/01 21:35:28 gilles Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2008, Gilles Chehade <gilles@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2008, Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@openbsd.org>
+.\"
+.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
+.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
+.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
+.\"
+.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
+.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
+.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
+.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
+.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
+.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 1 2008 $
+.Dt SMTPD 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm smtpd
+.Nd "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl dnv
+.Oo Fl D Ar macro Ns =
+.Ar value Oc
+.Op Fl f Ar file
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+is a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
+.Pq SMTP
+daemon which can be used as a machine's primary mail system.
+.Nm
+can listen on a network interface and handle
+.Pq SMTP
+transactions, it can also be fed messages through the standard
+.Xr sendmail 8
+interface.
+.Nm
+can relay messages through remote mail transfer agents or store them
+locally using either the mbox or maildir format.
+This implementation supports SMTP as defined by RFC5321 as well as several
+extensions.
+A running
+.Nm
+can be controlled through
+.Xr smtpctl 8
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
+Define
+.Ar macro
+to be set to
+.Ar value
+on the command line.
+Overrides the definition of
+.Ar macro
+in the configuration file.
+.It Fl d
+Do not daemonize.
+If this option is specified,
+.Nm
+will run in the foreground and log to
+.Em stderr .
+.It Fl f Ar file
+Specify an altenative configuration file.
+.It Fl n
+Configtest mode.
+Only check the configuration file for validity.
+.It Fl v
+Produce more verbose output.
+.El
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width "/var/run/smtpd.sockXX" -compact
+.It /etc/mail/smtpd.conf
+Default
+.Nm
+configuration file.
+.It /var/run/smtpd.sock
+Unix-domain socket used for communication with
+.Xr smtpctl 8 .
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr smtpd.conf 5 ,
+.Xr smtpctl 8 ,
+.Xr smtpdb 8
+.Rs
+.%R RFC 5321
+.%T "SMTP"
+.%D April 2001
+.Re
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+program first appeared in
+.Ox 4.4 .