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"qmail environment variables" - Metin KAYA - (2008-06-25 11:45:25) [9381]

some qmail programs define a number of environment variables suc as:

Name Man page Set or used Purpose
................. ................ ................. ................
DATABYTES qmail-smtpd used Overrides
control/databytes
DEFAULT qmail-command set Portion of
address matching
"-default" in a
.qmail file
name.
DTLINE qmail-command set Delivered-To
header field
EXT qmail-command set The address
extension
EXT2 qmail-command set Portion of EXT
following first
dash
EXT3 qmail-command set Portion of EXT
following second
dash
EXT4 qmail-command set Portion of EXT
following third
dash
HOME qmail-command set The user's home
directory
HOST qmail-command set The domain part
of the recipient
address
HOST2 qmail-command set Portion of HOST
preceding last
dot.
HOST3 qmail-command set Portion of HOST
preceding
second-to-last
dot
HOST4 qmail-command set Portion of HOST
preceding
third-to-last
dot
LOCAL qmail-command set The local part
of the recipient
address
LOGNAME qmail-inject used User name in
From header
field (4)
MAILHOST qmail-inject used Host name in
From header
field (2)
MAILNAME qmail-inject used Personal name in
From header
field (2)
MAILUSER qmail-inject used User name in
From header
field (2)
NAME qmail-inject used Personal name in
From header
field (3)
NEWSENDER qmail-command set Forwarding
sender address
(see "man
dot-qmail")
QMAILDEFAULTDOMAIN qmail-inject used Overrides
control/defaultdomain
QMAILDEFAULTHOST qmail-inject used Overrides
control/defaulthost
QMAILHOST qmail-inject used Host name in
From header
field (1)
QMAILIDHOST qmail-inject used Overrides
control/idhost
QMAILINJECT qmail-inject used Specify various
options (see
next table)
QMAILMFTFILE qmail-inject used File containing
list of mailing
list addresses
for
Mail-Followup-To
generation
QMAILNAME qmail-inject used Personal name in
From header
field (1)
QMAILPLUSDOMAIN qmail-inject used Overrides
control/plusdomain
QMAILSHOST qmail-inject used Host name in
envelope sender
address
QMAILSUSER qmail-inject used User name in
envelope sender
address
QMAILUSER qmail-inject used User name in
From header
field (1)
RECIPIENT qmail-command set Envelope
recipient
address
RELAYCLIENT qmail-smtpd used Ignore
control/rcpthosts
and append value
to recipient
address
RPLINE qmail-command set Return-Path
header field
SENDER qmail-command set Envelope sender
address
UFLINE qmail-command set UUCP-style "From
" line
USER qmail-command set The current user
USER qmail-inject used User name in
From header
field (3)

This information is retrieved from http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.txt.

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