putmail (GNU Mailutils Manual)

3.14 putmail

The putmail utility reads a message from its standard input and delivers it to the specified mailbox URL. The usage is:

putmail URL

For example, to deliver mail to a local mailbox /var/spool/mail/test:

putmail /var/spool/mail/test

Of course, this would work only it the test mailbox is writable for the user invoking putmail.

The smtp mailbox scheme can be used for remote delivery. For example:

putmail 'smtp://mail.example.org;to=ovr'

The program will initiate SMTP dialog with the server ‘mail.example.org’ and will send the message from its standard input to the user ‘ovr’ on that server.

putmail options
putmail configuration

3.14.1 putmail options

-f email
-r email
--from=email: Specify the sender address. If not used, the current user name will be used.
-l name
--language=name: Define scripting language for the next --script option. Valid arguments are ‘sieve’, ‘scheme’ and ‘python’.
--message-id-header=header: Use this header to identify messages when logging Sieve actions
-s name
--script=name: Set the name of the user-defined mail filter. See Scripting in mda, for a detailed discussion of the scripting feature.

3.14.2 putmail configuration

The behavior of putmail is affected by the following configuration statements:

Statement	Reference
debug	See The `debug` Statement.
mailbox	See The `mailbox` Statement.
locking	See The `locking` Statement.
pam	See PAM Statement.
sql	See The `sql` Statement.
virtdomain	See The `virtdomain` Statement.
radius	See The `radius` Statement.
ldap	See The `ldap` Statement.
auth	See The `auth` Statement.
mailer	See The `mailer` Statement.

The utility also accepts all MDA configuration statements: See MDA Configuration File Summary.

GNU Mailutils

General-Purpose Mail Package

3.14 putmail

3.14.1 putmail options

3.14.2 putmail configuration