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6 bsmtp - Bacula's SMTP client (mail submission program)
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10 bsmtp [options] <recipient> <...>
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14 bsmtp is a simple mail user agent designed to permit more flexibility
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21 -4 Forces bsmtp to use IPv4 addresses only.
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25 -8 Encode the mail in UTF-8.
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71 mailcommand = "/home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f \"\(Bac‐
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73 -s \"Bacula: %t %e of %c %l\" %r"
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122Kern Sibbald 3 July 2012 BSMTP(1)