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    1 System Administration Commands                           etrn(1M)
    2 
    3 
    4 NAME
    5      etrn - start mail queue run
    6 
    7 SYNOPSIS
    8      etrn [-v] server-host [client-hosts]
    9 
   10 DESCRIPTION
   11      SMTP's  ETRN  command  allows  an  SMTP client and server to
   12      interact, giving the server an opportunity to start the pro­
   13      cessing  of  its  queues for messages to go to a given host.
   14      This is meant to be used in start-up conditions, as well  as
   15      for mail nodes that have transient connections to their ser­
   16      vice providers.
   17 
   18      The etrn utility initiates an SMTP  session  with  the  host
   19      server-host  and sends one or more ETRN commands as follows:
   20      If no client-hosts are specified, etrn looks up  every  host
   21      name  for  which  sendmail(1M)  accepts  email and, for each
   22      name, sends an ETRN command with that name as the  argument.
   23      If  any  client-hosts are specified, etrn uses each of these
   24      as arguments for successive ETRN commands.
   25 
   26 OPTIONS
   27      The following option is supported:
   28 
   29      -v    The normal mode of operation for etrn is to do all  of
   30 	   its  work  silently.   The -v option makes it verbose,
   31 	   which causes etrn to display  its  conversations  with
   32 	   the remote SMTP server.
   33 
   34 ENVIRONMENT
   35      No environment variables are used.
   36 
   37 FILES
   38      /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
   39 	   sendmail configuration file
   40 
   41 SEE ALSO
   42      sendmail(1M), RFC 1985.
   43 
   44 CAVEATS
   45      Not all SMTP servers support ETRN.
   46 
   47 CREDITS
   48      Leveraged from David Muir Sharnoff's expn.pl script.  Chris­
   49      tian von Roques added support for args and fixed a couple of
   50      bugs.
   51 
   52 AVAILABILITY
   53      The  latest  version  of  etrn  is  available in the contrib
   54      directory of the sendmail distribution through anonymous ftp
   55      at ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/ucb/src/sendmail/.
   56 
   57 AUTHOR
   58      John T. Beck    <john@beck.org>