innmail(1)

1INNMAIL(1)                InterNetNews Documentation                INNMAIL(1)
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NAME

6       innmail - Simple mail-sending program
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SYNOPSIS

9       innmail [-h] [-s subject] address [address ...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       innmail is a Perl script intended to provide the non-interactive mail-
13       sending functionality of mail(1) while avoiding nasty security
14       problems.  It takes the body of a mail message on standard input and
15       sends it to the specified addresses by invoking the value of mta in
16       inn.conf.
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18       At least one address (formatted for the MTA specified in inn.conf, if
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20       they contain only alphanumerics and the symbols "@", ".", "-", "+",
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23       innmail was written to be suitable for the mailcmd setting in inn.conf.
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OPTIONS

26       -h  Gives usage information.
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28       -s subject
29           Sets the Subject: header of the message.  A warning is issued if
30           this option is omitted.
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EXAMPLES

33       This sends a one-line message to the local user "joe":
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35           echo "A one-line message." | innmail -s "Simple message" joe
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37       innmail by default is used by INN for sending nightly reports and
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BUGS

41       innmail fails on addresses that begin with "-", although one might hope
42       that the news server will not need to contact any such addresses.
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44       There are many "correct" addresses that will be silently modified by
45       the sanitization process.  A news administrator should be careful to
46       use particularly sane addresses if they may be passed to innmail.
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HISTORY

49       innmail was written by James Brister <brister@vix.com> for
50       InterNetNews.  This manual page was originally written by Jeffrey M.
51       Vinocur.
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