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.\"        WHAT IS IT:
.\"                modularized contentfilter for Zmailer and Sendmail
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.\"                (c) 2005 Eugene G. Crosser <crosser@average.org>
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.TH SMSCANNER 8 "13 Dec 2003" ZMSCANNER ZMSCANNER
.SH NAME
smscanner \- Zmascanner Sendmail milter daemon
.SH SYNOPSYS
.B smscanner
[-I configfile] [-d] [-v] [-V] [-h]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B smscanner
command starts the daemon that uses (runtime configurable) set of
functions to analyze various parts of an email message, convert
them to other formats and/or break to smaller parts, and make
decisions about the message acceptability.  In other words, it
is a modular email content scanner.
.B Smscanner
provides Milter (http://www.milter.org/) interface to Sendmail
MTA and can scan messages prior to acknowledging reception to
the SMTP client.
.SH OPTIONS
.B \-I configfile
\- specify non\-default configuration file (see
.BR zmscanner.conf "(5) for syntax description).
.sp
.B \-d
\- do
.B not
go to the background.  By default, the program forks a child that
closes stdin, stdout and stderr, detaches from the controlling terminal
and continue in the background.  The parent process finishes.
.sp
.B \-v
\- verbose operation \- print debugging output to stdout.  Useful
together with
.B \-d
option.
.sp
.B \-V
\- print version information and exit.
.sp
.B \-h
\- print a message with usage hints and exit.
.SH COPYRIGHT
2003-2005, Eugene G. Crosser
.br
License same as Zmailer (http://www.zmailer.org/)
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR zmscanner "(8), " zmscanner "(3), " zmsctl "(8), " zmscanner.conf "(5)