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39 .Nd DragonFly Mail Agent
52 is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use.
53 It accepts mails from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and
54 delivers the mails either locally or to a remote destination.
55 Remote delivery includes several features like TLS/SSL support and SMTP
59 is not intended as a replacement for real, big MTAs like
65 does not listen on port 25 for incoming connections.
67 The options are as follows:
68 .Bl -tag -width indent
71 acts as a compatibility option for sendmail.
75 will list all mails currently stored in the mail queue.
76 All other modes are are ignored.
78 Don't run in the background.
84 Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in incoming messages.
85 This should be set if you are reading data from a file.
87 Set the identifier used in syslog messages to the supplied
89 This is a compatibility option for sendmail.
91 This is a compatibility option for sendmail.
97 All other options are ignored.
99 Process saved messages in the queue.
106 can be configured with three config files:
117 These three files are stored per default in
120 Every file contains parameters of the form
122 Lines containing boolean values are set to
124 if the line is commented and to
126 if the line is uncommented.
127 Empty lines or lines beginning with a
130 Parameter names and their values are case sensitive.
133 SMTP authentication can be configured in
135 Each line has the format
136 .Dq Li user|smarthost:password .
138 Most of the behaviour of
144 (string, default=empty)
146 If you want to send outgoing mails via a smarthost, set this variable to
147 your smarthosts address.
149 (numeric, default=25)
151 Use this port to deliver remote emails.
152 Only useful together with the
156 will deliver all mails to this port, regardless of whether a smarthost is set
159 (string, default=/etc/mail/aliases)
161 Path to the local aliases file.
162 Just stick with the default.
164 (string, default=/var/spool/dma)
169 Just stick with the default.
171 (string, default=/etc/dma/virtusertable)
177 (string, default=/etc/dma/auth.conf)
183 (boolean, default=commented)
185 Comment if you want virtual user support.
186 .It Ic SECURETRANS Xo
187 (boolean, default=commented)
189 Comment if you want TLS/SSL secured transfer.
191 (boolean, default=commented)
193 Comment if you want to use STARTTLS.
194 Only useful together with
197 (string, default=empty)
199 Path to your SSL certificate file.
201 (boolean, default=commented)
205 to use plain text SMTP login over an insecure connection.
206 You have to rename this variable manually to prevent that you send your
207 password accidentally over an insecure connection.
209 (boolean, default=commented)
211 Comment if you want that
214 You have to flush your mail queue manually with the
217 This option is handy if you are behind a dialup line.
222 file specifies a virtual user table.
223 Each line has the format
224 .Dq Li localuser:mail-address .
225 Some smarthosts do not accept mails from unresolvable email address
226 (e.g.\& user@localhost) so you have to rewrite your outgoing email
227 address to a valid address.
234 .%T "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol"
239 .%T "SMTP Service Extension for Authentication"
244 .%T "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS"
250 utility first appeared in
255 .An Matthias Schmidt Aq matthias@dragonflybsd.org
257 .An Simon Schubert Aq corecode@dragonflybsd.org .