You want to bypass a mail system? o Has your company a badly configured mailer who copies bounces to the local postmaster? Do you dislike this? o Maybe your compary has a very stupidly configured mail system which does bad things to your messages? o Is the mail system simply broken? smtpblast can help you. smtpblast uses qmail compatible exitcodes. See the manualpage for details. Use it like this: smtpblast -f me@domain.example -t recipient@another.example \ [-i inputfilename] [-r relayhost] [-p port] Without the -i option smtpblast will read from stdin. That's the right behaviour for your .qmail file. Without the -r option smtpblast will ask the domain name server about the best MX for the target host. This may or may not be what you want. With -p you can tell smtpblast to connect to a port number different from 25 (standard SMTP). Use this together with e.g. the SSH port forwarding mechanism or nonstandard SMTP server ports to bypass a packet filter.