EXTSMAIL(1)

✨ EXTSMAIL(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, we're talking about extsmaild 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

extsmaild — robust sending of e-mail to external commands 💌

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

extsmaild [-m mode] [-t] [-v]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so extsmaild is the little icon that sends messages that got spooled by extsmail(1). it's giving "backstage crew who actually makes the show happen", no cap. 👑

If you call it with no -m specified at all, or if you pass -m batch, then extsmaild operates in batch mode. that means it runs as a foreground process, does its thing, and terminates after trying to send all the messages. the receipts? it returns 0 if all messages were sent successfully, or 1 if any messages remain unsent. simple as that, fr fr. ✨

If you call it with the -m daemon switch, extsmaild operates as a long running daemon instead. it monitors the spool directory, and when it notices changes to the directory (or a fixed period has elapsed) it tries to send any unsent messages. this is the moment where it becomes main character energy 🫶 — because it means that even on unreliable networks, extsmaild can easily be left alone and relied upon to ultimately send all messages, without manual intervention. literally set it and forget it. 💅

The -t flag can be specified to test the configuration files for extsmaild without running the mail sending process. vibe check first, send later. 🧚

The -v flag prints version info to stdout, then exits. that's it, that's the whole flag, it ate and left no crumbs. 🌈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• extsmail.conf(5)
• extsmail.externals(5)
• extsmail(1)

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

extsmaild was written by Laurence Tratt <http://tratt.net/laurie/> 🎀

and that's the whole page bestie, ily, go send some mail 💖✨🌸

Debian · November 2, 2008 · mwah, that's a wrap 🫶💅