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author | Gilles Chehade <gilles@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-11-01 21:35:29 +0000 |
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committer | Gilles Chehade <gilles@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-11-01 21:35:29 +0000 |
commit | eb6a8429d13e35ea08c9c9ae812e82f68f945cf1 (patch) | |
tree | 341116579d67f93ad5c8846da31fe912d76a283d /usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd.8 | |
parent | 368a4360af103cf67185c23d8061bab692a57b91 (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@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd.8')
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1 files changed, 99 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd.8 b/usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e0632198d15 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.\" $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 . |