innmail - Simple mail-sending program
SYNOPSIS
innmail [-h] [-s subject] address [address ...]
DESCRIPTION
innmail is a Perl script intended to provide the non-
interactive mail-sending functionality of mail(1) while
avoiding nasty security problems. It takes the body of a
mail message on standard input and sends it to the speci
fied addresses by invoking the value of mta in inn.conf.
At least one address (formatted for the MTA specified in
inn.conf if it matters) is required. innmail will sani
tize the addresses so that they contain only alphanumerics
and the symbols "@", ".", "-", "+", "_", and "%".
innmail was written to be suitable for the mailcmd setting
in inn.conf.
OPTIONS
-h Gives usage information.
-s subject
Sets the Subject: header of the message. A warning is
issued if this option is omitted.
EXAMPLES
This sends a one-line message to the local user "joe":
echo "A one-line message." | innmail -s "Simple message" joe
innmail by default is used by INN for sending nightly
reports and control message reports.
BUGS
innmail fails on addresses that begin with "-", although
one might hope that the news server will not need to con
tact any such addresses.
There are many "correct" addresses that will be silently
modified by the sanitization process. A news administra
tor should be careful to use particularly sane addresses
if they may be passed to innmail.
HISTORY
innmail was written by James Brister <brister@vix.com> for
InterNetNews. This manual page was originally written by
Jeffrey M. Vinocur.
SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5), mail(1).
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