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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.

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 MDA Scripting, for a detailed discussion of the scripting feature.

3.14.2 putmail configuration

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

The utility also accepts all MDA configuration statements: See Conf-mda.