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/⟩