bsmtp8

Usage

Overview

bsmtp is a program which is called by sendmail(8) to append the mail to the batch for host created by the sender from and addressed to recipient(s).

Options

-t host

destination host

-f from

sender address (FQDN)

-s size

maximum message size (default: 0)

-T seconds

timeout in seconds (default: 900)

-U path

path to uux (default: /usr/bin/uux)

-C path

path to compress (default: /usr/bin/compress)

-F path

path to freeze (default: /usr/local/bin/freeze)

-b path

path to bzip2 (default: /usr/bin/bzip2)

-G path

path to gzip (default: /bin/gzip)

-B path

path to batchparms (default: /etc/mail/batchparms)

-d

duplicate all dots in the first column ("hiddendot"), because some mail programs otherwise see this dot as the end of the mail. You will need this option if your mail transport agent doesn't duplicate the dots itself. -k stop creating backup files of the outgoing batches.

Files

/var/spool/bsmtp/out Directory for outgoing batches.
/etc/mail/batchparms batch parameters
/var/log/bsmtp/Log log file
/var/log/bsmtp/Debug debug output