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SMTP(1)                  BSD General Commands Manual                 SMTP(1)

NAME top

     smtp — Simple Mail Transfer Protocol client

SYNOPSIS top

     smtp [-Chnv] [-F from] [-H helo] [-s server] [recipient ...]

DESCRIPTION top

     The smtp utility is a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) client which
     can be used to run an SMTP transaction against an SMTP server.

     By default, smtp reads the mail content from the standard input, estab‐
     lishes an SMTP session, and runs an SMTP transaction for all the speci‐
     fied recipients.  The content is sent unaltered as mail data.

     The options are as follows:

     -C      Do not require server certificate to be valid.

     -F from
             Set the return-path (MAIL FROM) for the SMTP transaction.
             Default to the current username.

     -H helo
             Define the hostname to advertise (HELO) when establishing the
             SMTP session.

     -h      Display version and usage.

     -n      Do not actually execute a transaction, just try to establish an
             SMTP session and quit.  When this option is given, no message
             is read from the standard input.

     -s server
             Specify the server to connect to and connection parameters.
             The format is [proto://[user:pass@]]host[:port].  The following
             protocols are available:

             smtp        Normal SMTP session with opportunistic STARTTLS.
             smtp+tls    Normal SMTP session with mandatory STARTTLS.
             smtp+notls  Plain text SMTP session without TLS.
             lmtp        LMTP session with opportunistic STARTTLS.
             lmtp+tls    LMTP session with mandatory STARTTLS.
             lmtp+notls  Plain text LMTP session without TLS.
             smtps       SMTP session with forced TLS on connection.

             Defaults to “smtp://localhost:25”.

     -v      Be more verbose.  This option can be specified multiple times.

SEE ALSO top

     smtpd(8)

HISTORY top

     The smtp program first appeared in OpenBSD 6.4.

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     This page is part of the OpenSMTPD (a FREE implementation of the
     server-side SMTP protocol) project.  Information about the project can
     be found at https://www.opensmtpd.org/.  If you have a bug report for
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