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NAME
     qmail-remote - send mail via SMTP

SYNOPSIS
     qmail-remote host sender recip [ recip ... ]

DESCRIPTION
     qmail-remote reads a mail message from its input  and  sends
     the message to one or more recipients at a remote host.

     The remote host  is  qmail-remote's  first  argument,  host.
     qmail-remote  sends  the  message  to  host,  or  to  a mail
     exchanger for host listed in the Domain Name System, via the
     Simple  Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).  host can be either a
     fully-qualified domain name:

          silverton.berkeley.edu

     or an IP address enclosed in brackets:

          [128.32.183.163]

     The envelope recipient addresses are listed as  recip  argu-
     ments  to  qmail-remote.   The  envelope  sender  address is
     listed as sender.

     Note that qmail-remote does not take options  and  does  not
     follow the getopt standard.

TRANSPARENCY
     End-of-file in SMTP is encoded as dot CR LF.  A dot  at  the
     beginning of a line is encoded as dot dot.  It is impossible
     in SMTP to send a message that does not end with a  newline.
     qmail-remote  converts  the UNIX newline convention into the
     SMTP newline convention by inserting CR before each LF.

     It is a violation of the SMTP protocol  to  send  a  message
     that  contains long lines or non-ASCII characters.  However,
     qmail-remote will happily send such  messages.   It  is  the
     user's responsibility to avoid generating illegal messages.

RESULTS
     qmail-remote prints some number of recipient  reports,  fol-
     lowed  by a message report. Each report is terminated by a 0
     byte.  Each report begins with a single letter:

     r    Recipient report: acceptance.

     h    Recipient report: permanent rejection.

     s    Recipient report: temporary rejection.




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     K    Message report: success.  host has taken responsibility
          for  delivering  the  message  to each acceptable reci-
          pient.

     Z    Message report: temporary failure.

     D    Message report: permanent failure.

     After this letter comes a human-readable description of what
     happened.

     The recipient reports will always be  printed  in  the  same
     order  as  qmail-remote's  recip  arguments.   Note  that in
     failure cases there may  be  fewer  recipient  reports  than
     recip arguments.

     qmail-remote always exits zero.

CONTROL FILES
     helohost
          Current host name, for use solely in  saying  hello  to
          the  remote SMTP server.  Default:  me, if that is sup-
          plied; otherwise qmail-remote refuses to run.

     smtproutes
          Artificial  SMTP  routes.   Each  route  has  the  form
          domain:relay,  without  any  extra  spaces.   If domain
          matches host, qmail-remote will connect to relay, as if
          host  had  relay  as  its only MX.  (It will also avoid
          doing any CNAME lookups on sender and recip.)  host may
          include a colon and a port number to use instead of the
          normal SMTP port, 25:

             inside.af.mil:firewall.af.mil:26

          relay may be empty; this tells qmail-remote to look  up
          MX records as usual.  smtproutes may include wildcards:

             .af.mil:
             :heaven.af.mil

          Here any address ending with .af.mil  (but  not  af.mil
          itself)  is routed by its MX records; any other address
          is artificially routed to heaven.af.mil.

          The qmail system does not protect you if you create  an
          artificial  mail  loop  between machines.  However, you
          are always safe using smtproutes if you do  not  accept
          mail from the network.

     timeoutconnect
          Number of seconds qmail-remote will wait for the remote



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          SMTP  server to accept a connection.  Default: 60.  The
          kernel normally imposes a 75-second upper limit.

     timeoutremote
          Number of  seconds  qmail-remote  will  wait  for  each
          response from the remote SMTP server.  Default: 1200.

SEE ALSO
     addresses(5), envelopes(5), qmail-control(5), qmail-send(8),
     qmail-smtpd(8), qmail-tcpto(8)













































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