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6 bsmtp - Bacula's SMTP (mail delivery program)
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9 bsmtp is a simple mail transport program that permits more flexibility
10 than the standard mail programs typically found on Unix systems. It can
11 even be used on Windows machines.
12 It is called:
14 Usage: bsmtp [-f from] [-h mailhost] [-s subject] [-c copy] [recipient
16 ...]
17 -c set the Cc: field
18 -dnn set debug level to nn
19 -f set the From: field
20 -h use mailhost:port as the bsmtp server
21 -s set the Subject: field
22 -? print this message.
23 If the -f option is not specified, bsmtp will use your userid. If the
25 option is not specified bsmtp will use the value in the environment
26 variable bsmtpSERVER or if there is none localhost. By default port 25
27 is used.
28 recipients is a space separated list of email recipients.
30 The body of the email message is read from standard input.
32 An example of the use of bsmtp would be to put the following statement
34 in the Messages resource of your bacula-dir.conf file. Note, these com‐
35 mands should appear on a single line each.
36 mailcommand = "/home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f
38 -s
39 operatorcommand = "/home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f
40 -s
41 Where you replace home/bacula/bin with the path to your Bacula binary
43 directory, and you replace mail.domain.com with the fully qualified
44 name of your bsmtp (email) server, which normally listens on port
45 It is HIGHLY recommended that you test one or two cases by hand to make
47 sure that the mailhost that you specified is correct and that it will
48 accept your email requests. Since bsmtp always uses a TCP connection
49 rather than writing in the spool file, you may find that your from
50 address is being rejected because it does not contain a valid domain,
51 or because your message is caught in your spam filtering rules. Gener‐
52 ally, you should specify a fully qualified domain name in the from
53 field, and depending on whether your bsmtp gateway is Exim or Sendmail,
54 you may need to modify the syntax of the from part of the message.
55 Please test.
56 When running bsmtp by hand, you will need to terminate the message by
58 entering a ctl-d in column 1 of the last line.
59 If you are getting incorrect dates (e.g. 1970) and you are running with
61 a non-English language setting, you might try adding a LANG="en_US"
62 immediately before the bsmtp call.
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65 This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon
66 <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>.
67Kern Sibbald 26 May 2006 BACULA-SMTP(1)