BSMTP(1)					     Network backup, recovery and verification						  BSMTP(1)

NAME

	bsmtp - Bacula's SMTP client (mail submission program)

SYNOPSIS

       bsmtp [options] <recipient> <...>

DESCRIPTION

       bsmtp  is a simple mail user agent designed to permit more flexibility than the standard mail programs typically found on Unix systems, and
       to ease portability. It can even run on Windows machines. It is used by the Director daemon to send notifications and requests to the oper-
       ator.

OPTIONS

       -8     Encode the mail in UTF-8.

       -c     Set the Cc: header.

       -d nn  Set debug level to nn.

       -dt    Print timestamp in debug output.

       -f     Set the From: header. If not specified, bsmtp will try to use your username.

       -h mailhost:port
	      Use mailhost:port as the SMTP server. (default port: 25)

       -s     Set the Subject: header.

       -r     Set the Reply-To:: header.

       -l     Set the maximum number of lines to be sent. (default: unlimited)

       -?     Show version and usage of program.

USAGE

       recipients is a space separated list of email addresses.

       The  body  of  the email message is read from standard input. Message is ended by sending the EOF character (Ctrl-D on many systems) on the
       start of a new line, much like many 'mail' commands.

       The actual, automated behavior of bsmtp will depend on the mail-related configuration of the Director in the Messages resource  of  bacula-
       dir.conf.

       Interactive use of bsmtp is pertinent to manually test and ensure these configuration bits are valid. This is highly recommended.

CONFIGURATION

       These commands should each appear on a single line in the configuration file.

       Messages {
	 Name = Standard
	 mailcommand = "/home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f "(Bacula) <%r>"
				  -s "Bacula: %t %e of %c %l" %r"
	 operatorcommand = "/home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f "(Bacula) <%r>"
					-s "Bacula: Intervention needed for %j" %r"
	 mail = sysadmin@site.domain.com = all, !skipped
	 operator = sysop@site.domain.com = mount
	 console = all, !skipped, !saved
	}

       home/bacula/bin	is replaced with the path to the Bacula binary directory, and mail.domain.com is replaced with the fully qualified name of
       an SMTP server, which usually listen on port 25.

ENVIRONMENT

       If the -h option is not specified, bsmtp will use environment variable SMTPSERVER, or 'localhost' if not set.

NOTES

       Since bsmtp always uses a TCP connection rather than writing to a spool file, you may find  that  your  From:  address  is  being  rejected
       because	it does not contain a valid domain, or because your message has gotten caught in spam filtering rules. Generally, you should spec-
       ify a fully qualified domain name in the from field, and depending on whether your SMTP gateway is Exim or Sendmail, you may need to modify
       the syntax of the from part of the message.

       If bsmtp cannot connect to the specified mail host, it will retry to connect to localhost.

BUGS

       If  you are getting incorrect dates (e.g. 1970) and you are running with a non-English locale, you might try setting the LANG="en_US" envi-
       ronment variable.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>, revised and edited by Lucas B. Cohen <lbc@members.fsf.org>.

SEE ALSO

       bacula-dir(8)

Kern Sibbald							  6 December 2009							  BSMTP(1)