extsmaild —
robust sending of e-mail to external commands
extsmaild sends messages spooled by
extsmail(1). If called without
-m specified, or if
-m batch
is specified,
extsmaild operates in batch
mode, running as a foreground process and terminating after trying to send all
messages; it returns
0 if all messages were
sent successfully, or
1 if any messages
remain unsent.
If called with the
-m
daemon switch,
extsmaild operates as a long running
daemon; it monitors the spool directory and when it notices changes to the
directory (or a fixed period has elapsed) it tries to send any unsent
messages. This means that even on unreliable networks,
extsmaild can easily be left alone and
relied upon to ultimately send all messages - without manual intervention.
The
-t flag can be specified to test the
configuration files for
extsmaild without
running the mail sending process.
extsmail.conf(5),
extsmail.externals(5),
extsmail(1)
extsmaild was written by
Laurence Tratt
⟨http://tratt.net/laurie/⟩