mailto.conf(5)

✨ mailto.conf — the CUPS email notifier's config file, bestie ✨

okay so like, this is mailto.conf(5), the config file for the CUPS email notifier, brought to you by OpenPrinting. she's lowkey small but she's iconic, and she controls how your printer slides into your inbox 💌

🌸 NAME 🌸

mailto.conf — configuration file for cups email notifier

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the mailto.conf file is literally the moment where you define your local mail server AND your email notification preferences for CUPS. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🫶

Every single line in the file can be one of three things:

1. a configuration directive
2. a blank line
3. a comment

Configuration directives typically consist of a name and zero or more values separated by whitespace. and here's the tea: the configuration directive name and values are case-insensitive — she does not care about your capitalization choices, she is above that. 🙈

Comment lines start with the # character. so go ahead and leave little notes to yourself, she won't read them. 💅

🎀 DIRECTIVES 🎀

• Cc cc-address@domain.com — Specifies an additional recipient for all email notifications. like a CC but make it every single email. 💫
• From from-address@domain.com — Specifies the sender of email notifications. who is sending this?? you, bestie. it's you. 👑
• Sendmail sendmail command and options — Specifies the sendmail command to use when sending email notifications.

⚠️ okay this is the important part: Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the mailto.conf file. If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used. so if you wrote five of them thinking you were being thorough... no. only the last one counts. she's choosing violence and honestly? respect. 💀

• SMTPServer servername — Specifies a SMTP server to send email notifications to.

⚠️ same rules as above, fr fr: Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the mailto.conf file. If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used. last one standing wins, periodt.

• Subject subject-prefix — Specifies a prefix string for the subject line of an email notification. so your inbox gets that little ✨flair✨ before the actual subject. obsessed.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• cupsd(8)
• CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)

like go read those too, iykyk 🧚

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2020-2024 by OpenPrinting.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was mailto.conf(5) from the CUPS fam, last touched 2021-02-28, and yes the copyright is held down by OpenPrinting from 2020 all the way through 2024. slay, protect your intellectual property, we love to see it. 🎀✨🌸