EXTSMAIL(1)

💌 EXTSMAIL(1) — the manual page, bestie edition 💌

ok so you're reading the extsmail manual page (section 1, General Commands Manual, iykyk) and honestly? she's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

extsmail — robust sending of e-mail to external commands 💅

like… she sends your mail, but robustly. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

extsmail [options ...]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. options go in, vibes come out ✨

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — extsmail masquerades as the standard UNIX sendmail(1) when messages are sent. yes, she's cosplaying. and she's good at it. main character energy fr fr 👑

effectively — and this is the important bit — she notes the command line switches passed to her, and then she takes those plus the message contents read from stdin and puts them into a file in a spool directory 🎀 for later sending with extsmaild(1).

so like: she doesn't send the mail right this second. she writes down everything she needs to remember — the switches, the message from stdin — tucks it into a spool directory file like a lil note in a locker 🦋 and then extsmaild(1) comes along later and actually does the sending. teamwork!! iconic!!

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• extsmail.conf(5) 💖
• extsmail.externals(5) ✨
• extsmaild(1) 👑

go read those too. they're the rest of the lore. 📚

✨ AUTHORS ✨

extsmail was written by Laurence Tratt <http://tratt.net/laurie/> 🌸 — absolute legend, we love to see it 💜

and that's the page!! this Debian edition landed November 2, 2008, and the page itself is EXTSMAIL(1) 💫 mwah, no notes, go send some mail the robust way bestie 😭💖