NAME

        bsmtp - Bacula's SMTP client (mail submission program)

SYNOPSIS

       bsmtp [options] <recipient> <...>

DESCRIPTION

       bsmtp  is  a  simple  mail user agent designed to permit more flexibility than the standard mail programs
       typically found on Unix systems, and to ease portability. It can even run on Windows machines. It is used
       by the Director daemon to send notifications and requests to the operator.

OPTIONS

       -8     Encode the mail in UTF-8.

       -c     Set the Cc: header.

       -d nn  Set debug level to nn.

       -dt    Print timestamp in debug output.

       -f     Set the From: header. If not specified, bsmtp will try to use your username.

       -h mailhost:port
              Use mailhost:port as the SMTP server. (default port: 25)

       -s     Set the Subject: header.

       -r     Set the Reply-To:: header.

       -l     Set the maximum number of lines to be sent. (default: unlimited)

       -?     Show version and usage of program.

USAGE

       recipients is a space separated list of email addresses.

       The body of the email message is read from standard input. Message is ended by sending the EOF  character
       (Ctrl-D on many systems) on the start of a new line, much like many 'mail' commands.

       The  actual, automated behavior of bsmtp will depend on the mail-related configuration of the Director in
       the Messages resource of bacula-dir.conf.

       Interactive use of bsmtp is pertinent to manually test and ensure these  configuration  bits  are  valid.
       This is highly recommended.

CONFIGURATION

       These commands should each appear on a single line in the configuration file.

       Messages {
         Name = Standard
         mailcommand = "/home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f \"\(Bacula\) \<%r\>\"
                                  -s \"Bacula: %t %e of %c %l\" %r"
         operatorcommand = "/home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f \"\(Bacula\) \<%r\>\"
                                        -s \"Bacula: Intervention needed for %j\" %r"
         mail = sysadmin@site.domain.com = all, !skipped
         operator = sysop@site.domain.com = mount
         console = all, !skipped, !saved
        }

       home/bacula/bin is replaced with the path to the Bacula binary directory, and mail.domain.com is replaced
       with the fully qualified name of an SMTP server, which usually listen on port 25.

ENVIRONMENT

       If  the -h option is not specified, bsmtp will use environment variable SMTPSERVER, or 'localhost' if not
       set.

NOTES

       Since bsmtp always uses a TCP connection rather than writing to a spool file,  you  may  find  that  your
       From:  address  is being rejected because it does not contain a valid domain, or because your message has
       gotten caught in spam filtering rules. Generally, you should specify a fully qualified domain name in the
       from field, and depending on whether your SMTP gateway is Exim or Sendmail, you may need  to  modify  the
       syntax of the from part of the message.

       If bsmtp cannot connect to the specified mail host, it will retry to connect to localhost.

BUGS

       If  you  are getting incorrect dates (e.g. 1970) and you are running with a non-English locale, you might
       try setting the LANG="en_US" environment variable.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon  <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>,  revised  and  edited  by
       Lucas B. Cohen <lbc@members.fsf.org>.

SEE ALSO

       bacula-dir(8)

COPYRIGHT

       This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Kern Sibbald                                     6 December 2009                                        BSMTP(1)