shovelmail(1)              Expaminator              shovelmail(1)



NAME
       shovelmail

SYNOPSIS
       shovelmail  [-d] [-n number-of-children] [-r] [-w secs] \
                   -s server[:port] -t to   -f from    message...

DESCRIPTION
       "Shovel"  text  files into an SMTP server. Useful for load
       testing, or just seeing if everything works as expected.

       Command-line options:

       -d  write debugging messages.

       -n  fork up to 'n' children to deliver messages in  paral­
           lel

       -r  process directories recursively.

       -s   name  or IP address of the SMTP server.  If 'port' is
           omitted, 25 (SMTP) is assumed.

       -t  'To' email-address.

       -f  'From' email-address.

       -w  Wait for 'secs' seconds between messages.

       message...  a list of e-mail messages to be  sent  to  the
           server.
           If 'message' is a text file, the file will be sent; if
           'message' is a  directory,  all  text  files  in  that
           directory  will  be  sent.   Non-text  files  will  be
           skipped.


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2002, J.B.Ward
       <bward2@users.sourceforge.net>




Expaminator                Nov.29,2002              shovelmail(1)