NAME

fromsmtp − receive RFC822 mail from SMTP

SYNOPSIS

fromsmtp [ −d ] [ −h host ] [ −s sender ] to . . .

DESCRIPTION

fromsmtp reads an RFC822 message from its standard input, does some conversion of the message to make it acceptable to UNIX System mail, and pipes the result to rmail.  The to arguments are passed as arguments to rmail.  fromsmtp is normally invoked by smtpd to deliver incoming mail messages. 

The −d option may be used for debugging fromsmtp.  It will cause the command line for rmail to be echoed to standard output, as well as the results of the message (after conversion).  The message will not be given to rmail when this option is used. 

The −h host option may be used to prepend a host or network name to the front of the sender path in the From line at the beginning of the message.  This is useful if you need to identify which of several possible networks a message was received from (for possible use in replying). 

The −s sender option is used to give a default sender name, in case fromsmtp cannot determine the name of the sender from the message it reads.  If this option is not used, the default sender name unknown will be used. 

FILES

/usr/bin/rmailwhere converted mail is piped to

SEE ALSO

rmail(1M), smtpd(1M)
RFC822 − Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages