nullmailer-send(8) System Manager's Manual nullmailer-send(8) NAME nullmailer-send - Send queued messages SYNOPSIS nullmailer-send DESCRIPTION This program is responsible for coordinating the transmission of messages that have been queued by nullmailer-queue. It uses a variety of protocol modules to deliver the messages from the queue to remote "smart" servers. When the program starts, the queue is scanned to build a list of messages to send. The queue is rescanned when either the trigger is pulled, or af- ter pausetime seconds have elapsed after the last failed delivery. When there are no messages in the queue, nullmailer does no rescanning until the trigger is pulled. Pulling the trigger consists of opening up the trigger named pipe and writing a single byte to it, which causes this program to be awakened (if it's not already processing the queue). This procedure is done by nullmailer-queue to ensure that messages are delivered immediately. You can start delivery by hand from the command line like this: echo 1 > trigger Delivery of messages consists of reading the list of remote servers and then trying to deliver the messages to these servers as follows. For each remote in the list, the named protocol handler is executed once for each message remaining in the queue. If the protocol handler succeeds, the mes- sage is removed from the queue and processing continues with the next mes- sage. If the protocol handler reports a permanent failure or the message has been in the queue longer than queuelifetime, the message is moved into the failed queue and a bounce message is generated with nullmailer-dsn. If any messages remain in the queue, processing of the remaining messages con- tinues with the next remote. When all the remotes have been tried, null- mailer-send sleeps for a number of seconds specified by pausetime before retrying sending the contents of the queue. CONTROL FILES All the control files are reread each time the queue is run. helohost Sets the environment variable $HELOHOST which is used by the SMTP protocol module to set the parameter given to the HELO command. De- faults to the value of the me configuration file. maxpause The maximum time to pause between successive queue runs, in seconds. Defaults to 24 hours (86400). pausetime The minimum time to pause between successive queue runs when there are messages in the queue, in seconds. Defaults to 1 minute (60). Each time this timeout is reached, the timeout is doubled to a maxi- mum of maxpause. After new messages are injected, the timeout is reset. If this is set to 0, nullmailer-send will exit immediately after going through the queue once (one-shot mode). queuelifetime The maximum time a message is allowed to live in the queue before being considered permanently failed, in seconds. Defaults to 7 days (604800). remotes This file contains a list of remote servers to which to send each message. Each line of this file contains a remote host name or ad- dress followed by an optional protocol string, separated by white space. The protocol name defaults to smtp, and may be followed by additional options for that module. See the "PROTOCOL OPTIONS" sec- tion for a list of the available options. The options may option- ally be prefixed by -- but this is not required. The line is parsed according to standard shell quoting rules. For example, to connect to port 2525 on your SMTP smart host, which also requires SMTP au- thentication, and initiate TLS with STARTTLS, use: smarthost.dom smtp port=2525 starttls user=user pass='my pass phrase' Blank lines and lines starting with a pound (#) are ignored. sendtimeout The time to wait for a remote module listed above to complete send- ing a message before killing it and trying again, in seconds. De- faults to 1 hour (3600). If this is set to 0, nullmailer-send will wait forever for messages to complete sending. PROTOCOL OPTIONS port=PORT Set an alternate port number to connect to on the remote host. For example, SMTP may use port=587 for the alternate SMTP "submission" port. user=USERNAME Set the SMTP authentication user name. pass=PASSWORD Set the SMTP authentication password. source=HOSTNAME Set the source address for connections to the remote host. auth-login Force SMTP "AUTH LOGIN" mode instead of auto-detecting. tls Connect using TLS. This will automatically switch the default port to 465. ssl Alias for the tls option for compatibility. starttls Use the STARTTLS command to initiate a TLS session. x509certfile=FILENAME Set the filename for a TLS client certificate to send to the server. x509keyfile=FILENAME Set the filename for the private key for a TLS client certificate. Defaults to the same file name as x509certfile. x509cafile=FILENAME Set the TLS certificate authority trust filename. Defaults to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt. x509crlfile=FILENAME Set the TLS certificate revocation list filename. x509fmtder Specify that TLS X.509 files above are in DER format instead of PEM. insecure Don't abort a TLS connection if the server certificate fails valida- tion. Use this only if you know the server uses an invalid certifi- cate. tls-anon-auth Use TLS anonymous authentication - replacing certificate authentica- tion. This means no external certificates or passwords are needed to set up the connection. With this option your connection is vul- nerable to man-in-the-middle (active or redirection) attacks. How- ever, the data are integrity protected and encrypted from passive eavesdroppers. This option must be used with the insecure option - to acknowledge that you know what you are doing. FILES /var/spool/nullmailer/failed The failed message queue. /var/spool/nullmailer/queue The outgoing message queue. /var/spool/nullmailer/trigger A trigger file to cause immediate delivery. /usr/local/etc/nullmailer The configuration directory. /usr/local/libexec/nullmailer The protocol program directory. SEE ALSO nullmailer-dsn(1), nullmailer-inject(1), nullmailer-queue(8), mailq(1) http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html on how to setup a certificate-less Postfix SMTP server nullmailer-send(8)
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