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The qmail-remote-io internal program

qmail-remote-io is a part of the SMTP client implemented by qmail-remote. It manages the entirety of the SMTP transaction except EHLO and STARTTLS.

qmail-remote-io is not meant to be invoked directly. It is meant to be executed into by qmail-remote.

Internal details

• qmail-remote does the job of finding a suitable SMTP server and connecting to it, saying EHLO and, if the user has defined a control/trustanchors file and the server supports it, STARTTLS.
• If the connection is not encrypted, qmail-remote execs qmail-remote-io immediately, and qmail-remote-io proceeds with all the rest of the SMTP transaction.
• If the connection is encrypted, qmail-remote execs s6-tlsc qmail-remote-io, instead, so any further exchange with the SMTP server is protected by TLS.
• qmail-remote-io does the same job in either case: it speaks plaintext SMTP.