MAIL.LMTP(8)

💌 mail.lmtp — the LMTP delivery girlie 💌

ok so bestie, welcome to mail.lmtp from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, aka the system manager's little corner of the universe. this is the tool that takes your mail and hands it off to an LMTP server, and honestly? it's giving "quietly doing the most important job in the room" energy. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mail.lmtp — deliver mail through LMTP 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mail.lmtp [-d destination] [-f from] [-l lhlo] user ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea. mail.lmtp reads the standard input all the way up to an end-of-file, and then delivers it to an LMTP server for each user's address. every single one. no skipping. we love a thorough queen. 👑

the user you pass in has to be a valid user name or an email address. that's the vibe check, and if it doesn't pass, we don't play. 🚫

The options are as follows:

• -d destination — specify the destination LMTP address. like, where is this mail actually going, bestie? tell me. 📍
• -f from — specify the sender's name or email address. who's it from?? we need the receipts. 🧾
• -l lhlo — specify the LHLO argument used in the LMTP session. by default, mail.lmtp will default to "localhost". yes she has a default, she's lowkey self-sufficient like that. 💖

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

The mail.lmtp utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. so 0 = slay, anything else = not slay. simple as that. ✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• mail(1)
• smtpd(8)

ngl bestie, read the SEE ALSO section. it's literally right there. it's giving "homework but make it useful". 📚

ok that's the whole page, you ate that fr fr. this iconic lil manual came from Debian, dated February 14, 2017, and it lives as MAIL.LMTP(8) in the System Manager's Manual. happy mailing, mwah 💅💖🎀