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NAME

qmail-queue - queue a mail message for delivery

SYNOPSIS

qmail-queue

DESCRIPTION

qmail-queue reads a mail message from descriptor 0. It then reads envelope information from descriptor 1. It places the message into the outgoing queue for future delivery by qmail-send.

The envelope information is an envelope sender address followed by a list of envelope recipient addresses. The sender address is preceded by the letter F and terminated by a 0 byte. Each recipient address is preceded by the letter T and terminated by a 0 byte. The list of recipient addresses is terminated by an extra 0 byte. If qmail-queue sees end-of-file before the extra 0 byte, it aborts without placing the message into the queue.

Every envelope recipient address must contain a username, an @ sign, and a fully qualified domain name.

qmail-queue always adds a Received line to the top of the message. Other than this, qmail-queue does not inspect the message and does not enforce any restrictions on its contents. However, the recipients probably expect to see a proper header, as described in qmail-header(5) .

EXIT CODES

0 if qmail-queue has successfully queued the message, nonzero if qmail-queue has failed to queue the message. qmail-queue does not print diagnostics.

SEE ALSO

addresses(5) , envelopes(5) , qmail-header(5) , qmail-inject(8) , qmail-send(8) , qmail-smtpd(8)


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