mail.lmtp(8)

mail.lmtp8

Deliver mail through lmtp

Usage

mail.lmtp [-d destination] [-f from] [-l lhlo] user ...

Overview

mail.lmtp reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and delivers it to an LMTP server for each user's address. The user must be a valid user name or email address.

The options are as follows:

-d destination

Specify the destination LMTP address.

-f from

Specify the sender's name or email address.

-l lhlo

Specify the LHLO argument used in the LMTP session. By default, mail.lmtp will default to "localhost".

Exit status

The mail.lmtp utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie).

  1. 13–Arch

From opensmtpd 7.9.0p0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.