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39 .Nd DragonFly Mail Agent
53 is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use.
54 It accepts mails from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and
55 delivers the mails either locally or to a remote destination.
56 Remote delivery includes several features like TLS/SSL support and SMTP
60 is not intended as a replacement for real, big MTAs like
66 does not listen on port 25 for incoming connections.
68 The options are as follows:
69 .Bl -tag -width indent
72 acts as a compatibility option for sendmail.
74 .Bl -tag -width indent
76 List all mails currently stored in the mail queue.
78 Queue the mail, but don't attempt to deliver it.
81 config file setting below.
88 Don't run in the background.
94 Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in incoming messages.
95 This should be set if you are reading data from a file.
97 Set the identifier used in syslog messages to the supplied
99 This is a compatibility option for sendmail.
101 This is a compatibility option for sendmail.
107 All other options are ignored.
109 Process saved messages in the queue.
110 The argument is required for compatibility with sendmail, and ignored.
117 can be configured with three config files:
128 These three files are stored per default in
131 Every file contains parameters of the form
133 Lines containing boolean values are set to
135 if the line is commented and to
137 if the line is uncommented.
138 Empty lines or lines beginning with a
141 Parameter names and their values are case sensitive.
144 SMTP authentication can be configured in
146 Each line has the format
147 .Dq Li user|smarthost:password .
149 Most of the behaviour of
155 (string, default=empty)
157 If you want to send outgoing mails via a smarthost, set this variable to
158 your smarthosts address.
160 (numeric, default=25)
162 Use this port to deliver remote emails.
163 Only useful together with the
167 will deliver all mails to this port, regardless of whether a smarthost is set
170 (string, default=/etc/mail/aliases)
172 Path to the local aliases file.
173 Just stick with the default.
175 (string, default=/var/spool/dma)
180 Just stick with the default.
182 (string, default=/etc/dma/virtusertable)
188 (string, default=/etc/dma/auth.conf)
194 (boolean, default=commented)
196 Comment if you want virtual user support.
197 .It Ic SECURETRANS Xo
198 (boolean, default=commented)
200 Comment if you want TLS/SSL secured transfer.
202 (boolean, default=commented)
204 Comment if you want to use STARTTLS.
205 Only useful together with
208 (string, default=empty)
210 Path to your SSL certificate file.
212 (boolean, default=commented)
216 to use plain text SMTP login over an insecure connection.
217 You have to rename this variable manually to prevent that you send your
218 password accidentally over an insecure connection.
220 (boolean, default=commented)
222 Comment if you want that
225 You have to flush your mail queue manually with the
228 This option is handy if you are behind a dialup line.
230 (boolean, default=commented)
232 Uncomment if you want the bounce message to include the complete original
233 message, not just the headers.
235 (string, default=empty)
237 The name to be used when introducing this host, if different from
240 If specified, this option overrides
242 .It Ic MAILNAMEFILE Xo
243 (string, default=empty)
245 The name of the file to read the
252 file specifies a virtual user table.
253 Each line has the format
254 .Dq Li localuser:mail-address .
255 Some smarthosts do not accept mails from unresolvable email address
256 (e.g.\& user@localhost) so you have to rewrite your outgoing email
257 address to a valid address.
264 .%T "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol"
269 .%T "SMTP Service Extension for Authentication"
274 .%T "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS"
280 utility first appeared in
285 .An Matthias Schmidt Aq matthias@dragonflybsd.org
287 .An Simon Schubert Aq corecode@dragonflybsd.org .