man innmail (Commandes) - Simple mail-sending program
NAME
innmail - Simple mail-sending program
SYNOPSIS
innmail [-h] [-s subject] address [address ...]
DESCRIPTION
innmail is a Perl script intended to provide the non-interactive mail-sending functionality of mail(1) while avoiding nasty security problems. It takes the body of a mail message on standard input and sends it to the specified addresses by invoking the value of mta in inn.conf.
At least one address (formatted for the MTA specified in inn.conf, if it matters) is required. innmail will sanitize the addresses so that they contain only alphanumerics and the symbols CW@, CW., CW-, CW+, CW_, and CW%.
innmail was written to be suitable for the mailcmd setting in inn.conf.
OPTIONS
- -h
- Gives usage information.
- -s subject
- Sets the Subject: header of the message. A warning is issued if this option is omitted.
EXAMPLES
This sends a one-line message to the local user CWjoe:
echo "A one-line message." | innmail -s "Simple message" joe
innmail by default is used by INN for sending nightly reports and control message reports.
BUGS
innmail fails on addresses that begin with CW-, although one might hope that the news server will not need to contact any such addresses.
There are many correct addresses that will be silently modified by the sanitization process. A news administrator should be careful to use particularly sane addresses if they may be passed to innmail.
HISTORY
innmail was written by James Brister <brister@vix.com> for InterNetNews. This manual page was originally written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur.