NAME
qmail-command - user-specified mail delivery program
SYNOPSIS
in .qmailext: |command
DESCRIPTION
qmail-local will, upon your request, feed each incoming mail
message through a program of your choice.
When a mail message arrives, qmail-local runs sh -c command
in your home directory. It makes the message available on
command's standard input.
WARNING: The mail message does not begin with qmail-local's
usual Return-Path and Delivered-To lines.
Note that qmail-local uses the same file descriptor for
every delivery in your .qmail file, so it is not safe for
command to fork a child that reads the message in the
background while the parent exits.
EXIT CODES
command's exit codes are interpreted as follows: 0 means
that the delivery was successful; 99 means that the delivery
was successful, but that qmail-local should ignore all
further delivery instructions; 100 means that the delivery
failed permanently (hard error); 111 means that the delivery
failed but should be tried again in a little while (soft
error).
Currently 64, 65, 70, 76, 77, 78, and 112 are considered
hard errors, and all other codes are considered soft errors,
but command should avoid relying on this.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
qmail-local supplies several useful environment variables to
command. WARNING: These environment variables are not
quoted. They may contain special characters. They are
under the control of a possibly malicious remote user.
SENDER is the envelope sender address. NEWSENDER is the
forwarding envelope sender address, as described in dot-
qmail(5). RECIPIENT is the envelope recipient address,
local@domain. USER is user. HOME is your home directory,
homedir. HOST is the domain part of the recipient address.
LOCAL is the local part. EXT is the address extension, ext.
HOST2 is the portion of HOST preceding the last dot; HOST3
is the portion of HOST preceding the second-to-last dot;
HOST4 is the portion of HOST preceding the third-to-last
dot.
EXT2 is the portion of EXT following the first dash; EXT3 is
the portion following the second dash; EXT4 is the portion
following the third dash. DEFAULT is the portion
corresponding to the default part of the .qmail-... file
name; DEFAULT is not set if the file name does not end with
default.
DTLINE and RPLINE are the usual Delivered-To and Return-Path
lines, including newlines. UFLINE is the UUCP-style From_
line that qmail-local adds to mbox-format files.
SEE ALSO
dot-qmail(5), envelopes(5), qmail-local(8)
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