SENDMAIL(8)

💌 NAME 💌

sendmail — a mail enqueuer for smtpd(8)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sendmail [-tv] [-F name] [-f from] to ...

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay bestie, listen up 💖 the sendmail utility is a local enqueuer for the smtpd(8) daemon, and it's compatible with mailwrapper(8). that's the whole vibe.

The message gets read on standard input (stdin) until sendmail hits an end-of-file. that's it, that's the reading part 🌸

ngl, the sendmail enqueuer is not meant to be used directly to send mail — it's meant to be called through a frontend known as a mail user agent. so like, don't come for it directly, it's not that kind of girl 💅

Unless the optional -t flag is specified, you gotta give one or more recipients on the command line. no recipients, no party 🙈

The options are as follows:

• -F name — sets the sender's full name ✨
• -f from — sets the sender's address 💖
• -t — reads the message's To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields for recipients. heads up though: the Bcc: field gets deleted before sending. sneaky little thing 🫣
• -v — turns on verbose output. she's chatty, we love that 🌈

To maintain compatibility with Sendmail, Inc.'s implementation of sendmail, various other flags are accepted, but they have no effect. literally just there for the vibes 👑

🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

The sendmail utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. periodt 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• smtpctl(8)
• smtpd(8)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

OpenSMTPD is primarily developed by Gilles Chehade, Eric Faurot, and Charles Longeau, with contributions from various OpenBSD hackers. It is distributed under the ISC license 🌱

This manpage was written by Ryan Kavanagh <rak@debian.org> for the Debian project and is distributed under the ISC license. iconic behavior fr fr 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one is from $Mdocdate: October 23 2015 $ and it lives in the System Manager's Manual 💖 go enqueue some mail (through your MUA, obviously) 🌸✨