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INNMAIL(1)
NAME
  innmail - Simple mail-sending program

SYNOPSIS
  innmail [-h] [-s subject] address [address ...]

DESCRIPTION
  innmail is a Perl script intended to provide the non-interactive mail-
  sending functionality of mail(1) while avoiding nasty security problems.
  It takes the body of a mail message on standard input and sends it to the
  specified addresses by invoking the value of mta in inn.conf.

  At least one address (formatted for the MTA specified in inn.conf, if it
  matters) is required.	 innmail will sanitize the addresses so that they
  contain only alphanumerics and the symbols "@", ".", "-", "+", "_", and
  "%".

  innmail was written to be suitable for the mailcmd setting in inn.conf.

OPTIONS
  -h  Gives usage information.

  -s subject
      Sets the Subject: header of the message.	A warning is issued if this
      option is omitted.

EXAMPLES
  This sends a one-line message to the local user "joe":

      echo "A one-line message." | innmail -s "Simple message" joe

  innmail by default is used by INN for sending nightly reports and control
  message reports.

BUGS
  innmail fails on addresses that begin with "-", although one might hope
  that the news server will not need to contact any such addresses.

  There are many "correct" addresses that will be silently modified by the
  sanitization process.	 A news administrator should be careful to use
  particularly sane addresses if they may be passed to innmail.

HISTORY
  innmail was written by James Brister <brister@vix.com> for InterNetNews.
  This manual page was originally written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur.

SEE ALSO
  inn.conf(5), mail(1).

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