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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-11-06 16:02:16 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-11-07 08:33:02 +0100
commit677d8b3fec8960285040f3ed4e8d25aea56740e7 (patch)
tree312b5f41e5c7b53625f016073a06fd20533e0f14 /docs
parent6aa9cfa2b90a818e06c8c414733145ad94ca461f (diff)
curl.1: explain the SMTP data expected for -T
Fixes #1107 Reported-by: Adam Piggott
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index f5375ed7f..9e96d0c98 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1774,6 +1774,11 @@ curl -T "{file1,file2}" http://www.example.com
or even
curl -T "img[1-1000].png" ftp://ftp.example.com/upload/
+
+When uploading to an SMTP server: the uploaded data is assumed to be RFC 5322
+formatted. It has to feature the necessary set of headers and mail body
+formatted correctly by the user as curl will not transcode nor encode it
+further in any way.
.IP "--tcp-nodelay"
Turn on the TCP_NODELAY option. See the \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP man page for
details about this option. (Added in 7.11.2)