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2cpyr
3cpyr    Copyright (c) 1998-2000, 2002 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
4cpyr        All rights reserved.
5cpyr    Copyright (c) 1983, 1995-1997 Eric P. Allman.  All rights reserved.
6cpyr    Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
7cpyr        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
8cpyr
9cpyr
10cpyr    By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set
11cpyr    forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
12cpyr    the sendmail distribution.
13cpyr
14cpyr    $$Id: helpfile,v 1.1.1.1 2003-04-08 15:07:11 zacheiss Exp $$
15cpyr
16smtp    This is sendmail version $v
17smtp    Topics:
18smtp            HELO    EHLO    MAIL    RCPT    DATA
19smtp            RSET    NOOP    QUIT    HELP    VRFY
20smtp            EXPN    VERB    ETRN    DSN     AUTH
21smtp            STARTTLS
22smtp    For more info use "HELP <topic>".
23smtp    To report bugs in the implementation send email to
24smtp            sendmail-bugs@sendmail.org.
25smtp    For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
26help    HELP [ <topic> ]
27help            The HELP command gives help info.
28helo    HELO <hostname>
29helo            Introduce yourself.
30ehlo    EHLO <hostname>
31ehlo            Introduce yourself, and request extended SMTP mode.
32ehlo    Possible replies include:
33ehlo            SEND            Send as mail                    [RFC821]
34ehlo            SOML            Send as mail or terminal        [RFC821]
35ehlo            SAML            Send as mail and terminal       [RFC821]
36ehlo            EXPN            Expand the mailing list         [RFC821]
37ehlo            HELP            Supply helpful information      [RFC821]
38ehlo            TURN            Turn the operation around       [RFC821]
39ehlo            8BITMIME        Use 8-bit data                  [RFC1652]
40ehlo            SIZE            Message size declaration        [RFC1870]
41ehlo            VERB            Verbose                         [Allman]
42ehlo            CHUNKING        Chunking                        [RFC1830]
43ehlo            BINARYMIME      Binary MIME                     [RFC1830]
44ehlo            PIPELINING      Command Pipelining              [RFC1854]
45ehlo            DSN             Delivery Status Notification    [RFC1891]
46ehlo            ETRN            Remote Message Queue Starting   [RFC1985]
47ehlo            STARTTLS        Secure SMTP                     [RFC2487]
48ehlo            AUTH            Authentication                  [RFC2554]
49ehlo            ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES     Enhanced status codes   [RFC2034]
50ehlo            DELIVERBY       Deliver By                      [RFC2852]
51mail    MAIL FROM: <sender> [ <parameters> ]
52mail            Specifies the sender.  Parameters are ESMTP extensions.
53mail            See "HELP DSN" for details.
54rcpt    RCPT TO: <recipient> [ <parameters> ]
55rcpt            Specifies the recipient.  Can be used any number of times.
56rcpt            Parameters are ESMTP extensions.  See "HELP DSN" for details.
57data    DATA
58data            Following text is collected as the message.
59data            End with a single dot.
60rset    RSET
61rset            Resets the system.
62quit    QUIT
63quit            Exit sendmail (SMTP).
64auth    AUTH mechanism [initial-response]
65auth            Start authentication.
66starttls        STARTTLS
67starttls                Start TLS negotiation.
68verb    VERB
69verb            Go into verbose mode.  This sends 0xy responses that are
70verb            not RFC821 standard (but should be)  They are recognized
71verb            by humans and other sendmail implementations.
72vrfy    VRFY <recipient>
73vrfy            Verify an address.  If you want to see what it aliases
74vrfy            to, use EXPN instead.
75expn    EXPN <recipient>
76expn            Expand an address.  If the address indicates a mailing
77expn            list, return the contents of that list.
78noop    NOOP
79noop            Do nothing.
80send    SEND FROM: <sender>
81send            replaces the MAIL command, and can be used to send
82send            directly to a users terminal.  Not supported in this
83send            implementation.
84soml    SOML FROM: <sender>
85soml            Send or mail.  If the user is logged in, send directly,
86soml            otherwise mail.  Not supported in this implementation.
87saml    SAML FROM: <sender>
88saml            Send and mail.  Send directly to the user's terminal,
89saml            and also mail a letter.  Not supported in this
90saml            implementation.
91turn    TURN
92turn            Reverses the direction of the connection.  Not currently
93turn            implemented.
94etrn    ETRN [ <hostname> | @<domain> | #<queuename> ]
95etrn            Run the queue for the specified <hostname>, or
96etrn            all hosts within a given <domain>, or a specially-named
97etrn            <queuename> (implementation-specific).
98dsn     MAIL FROM: <sender> [ RET={ FULL | HDRS} ] [ ENVID=<envid> ]
99dsn     RCPT TO: <recipient> [ NOTIFY={NEVER,SUCCESS,FAILURE,DELAY} ]
100dsn                          [ ORCPT=<recipient> ]
101dsn             SMTP Delivery Status Notifications.
102dsn     Descriptions:
103dsn             RET     Return either the full message or only headers.
104dsn             ENVID   Sender's "envelope identifier" for tracking.
105dsn             NOTIFY  When to send a DSN. Multiple options are OK, comma-
106dsn                     delimited. NEVER must appear by itself.
107dsn             ORCPT   Original recipient.
108-bt     Help for test mode:
109-bt     ?                :this help message.
110-bt     .Dmvalue         :define macro `m' to `value'.
111-bt     .Ccvalue         :add `value' to class `c'.
112-bt     =Sruleset        :dump the contents of the indicated ruleset.
113-bt     =M               :display the known mailers.
114-bt     -ddebug-spec     :equivalent to the command-line -d debug flag.
115-bt     $$m              :print the value of macro $$m.
116-bt     $$=c             :print the contents of class $$=c.
117-bt     /mx host         :returns the MX records for `host'.
118-bt     /parse address   :parse address, returning the value of crackaddr, and
119-bt                       the parsed address.
120-bt     /try mailer addr :rewrite address into the form it will have when
121-bt                       presented to the indicated mailer.
122-bt     /tryflags flags  :set flags used by parsing.  The flags can be `H' for
123-bt                       Header or `E' for Envelope, and `S' for Sender or `R'
124-bt                       for Recipient.  These can be combined, `HR' sets
125-bt                       flags for header recipients.
126-bt     /canon hostname  :try to canonify hostname.
127-bt     /map mapname key :look up `key' in the indicated `mapname'.
128-bt     /quit            :quit address test mode.
129-bt     rules addr       :run the indicated address through the named rules.
130-bt                       Rules can be a comma separated list of rules.
131control Help for smcontrol:
132control help            This message.
133control restart         Restart sendmail.
134control shutdown        Shutdown sendmail.
135control status          Show sendmail status.
136control memdump         Dump allocated memory list (for debugging only).
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