innmail(1) [suse man page]

INNMAIL(1)						    InterNetNews Documentation							INNMAIL(1)

NAME

       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 specified 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 sanitize 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 contact any such addresses.

       There are many "correct" addresses that will be silently modified by the sanitization process.  A news administrator 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.

       $Id: innmail.pod 7851 2008-05-26 19:33:08Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       inn.conf(5), mail(1).

INN 2.5.2							    2009-05-21								INNMAIL(1)

MAILPOST(1)						      General Commands Manual						       MAILPOST(1)

NAME

       mailpost - feed an email message into a news group

SYNOPSIS

       mailpost [ -r addr ] [ -f addr ] [ -a addr ] [ -d distribution ] [ -m mailing-list ] [ -b database ] newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

       The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email message from stdin and feeds it to inews for posting to a news server. Before feeding
       the article to inews it checks that the article has not been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans some address headers  up  and
       puts ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).

       If the article has been seen before (mailpost records the message-id of all articles is handles), the the article will be silently dropped.
       Other errors will cause the article to be mailed to the newsmaster.

       Normally mailpost is run by sendmail via an alias entry:

	      local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/mailpost
		       -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"

       newsgroups cannot be multiple groups.  Only one newsgroup name is allowed.

OPTIONS

       -r     If the ``-r'' flag is used the program will use the given address as the Path header, if no other value can be determined.

       -f     The ``-f'' flag is a synonym for the ``-r'' flag.

       -a     If the ``-a'' flag is used the value given is added to the article as an Approved header.

       -d     If the ``-d'' flag is used the value given is added to the article as a Distribution header.

       -m     If the ``-m'' flag is used the value given is added to the articles in a Mailing-List  header,  if  a  Mailing-List  header  doesn't
	      already exist.

       -b     IF  the ``-b'' flag is used, then it defines the location of the database used to store the message ids of articles sent on. This is
	      to prevent articles looping around if a news to mail gateway sends them back here. This option  may  be  required  if  the  mailpost
	      process doesn't have write access to the news tmp directory (the value of pathtmp in inn.conf(5).

HISTORY

       Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James Brister for INN integration.	This is revision 1.2.2.3, dated 2001/09/22.

FILES

       <pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db  database file

BUGS

       Is lacking in configurability.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), wildmat(3).

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