-s Sender

Sender's mail address.

-r Recipient

Recipient's mail address.

-x Recipient_host

Name of the recipient host or relay.

-f Syslog_facility

Pick one of: m - LOG_MAIL, d - LOG_DAEMON, 0-7 LOG_LOCAL[0-7].

-l Syslog_level

Log level is set by specifying a number 1-4. Log level becomes: 1 - LOG_ERR, 2 - LOG_NOTICE, 3 - LOG_INFO, 4 and more - LOG_DEBUG.

-m Mailer

Send output to the specified Mailer, where Mailer corresponds to a mailer definition in the configuration file emil.cf.

-i Input_file

Path to file for use as input. Defaults to standard input.

-o Output_file

Path to file for use as output. Defaults to standard output.

-e Configuration_file

Path to file for use as configuration file. Defaults to /usr/lib64/emil.cf

-c Charsets_file

Path to file for use as charsets file. Defaults to /usr/lib64/charsets.cpl

-A Recipient_applefile_encoding

Recipient applefile encoding. One of B(inhex), (apple)d(ouble) or (apple)s(ingle). This defaults to nothing, thus no applefile conversion if omitted unless gotten from the configuration file.

-B Recipient_binary_encoding

Recipient binary encoding. One of BAse64, BInhex or Uuencode. This defaults to nothing, thus no binary encoding conversion if omitted unless gotten from the configuration file.

-C Recipient_charset

Recipient charset according to RFC1345.

-F Recipient_format

Recipient format. One of MIME, MAILTOOL, RFC822 or TRANSPARENT. Defaults to RFC822.

-H Recipient_header_encoding

Recipient header encoding. One of Se, 7bit, 8bit, BAse64 or Quoted-printable. See also emil.cf(8).

-T Recipient_text_encoding

Recipient text encoding. One of Se, 7bit, 8bit, BAse64, BInhex, Quoted-printable or Uuencode. See also emil.cf(8).

-G Target_Group

Use Target_Group to specify use of a conversion group, as declared in emil.cf. If Target_Group is specified Emil will not try to resolve conversion group using recipient, sender and recipient host, instead it performs a case sensitive match on the conversion groups as declared in emil.cf. See also emil.cf(8).

-S Sender_charset

Sender charset according to RFC1345.

-h Headerlog_level

Log in message header. This is for testing, not for production use. Log level is specified by a number 1-4. Log level becomes: 1 - LOG_ERR, 2 - LOG_NOTICE, 3 - LOG_INFO, 4 and more - LOG_DEBUG.

-p

Adds a pseudo route to sendmail when using the -f option. Instead of calling sendmail with the recipient's address, call with @EMIL:"recipient address". Used when sendmail is used to call emil, to catch the visit to emil of the message.

-u

Prepends a unix from line first in the message/keeps the unix from line if provided in the incoming message. If not specified the unix from line will be removed/not prepended.

-g

Test configuration file. Returns the matching group name based on the provided recipient, sender and recipient host.

-v

Just prints version, then exits.

-d

Enables debugging on stderr. Using this will create voluminous output.

-n

Set up an SMTP connection to the host, as specified by the Recipient_host, and send output on that connection. This makes Emil act as an SMTP-client, and can be used as a replacement for the tcp mailer of sendmail.

%cat message.in | emil [OPTIONS] > message.out

or

%emil [OPTIONS] -i message.in -o message.out