diff --git a/conf/app.ini b/conf/app.ini
index 3e07b98e69..0ce8aae52e 100644
--- a/conf/app.ini
+++ b/conf/app.ini
@@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ SEND_AS_PLAIN_TEXT = false
 USE_SENDMAIL = false
 ; Specify an alternative sendmail binary
 SENDMAIL_PATH = sendmail
+; Specify any extra sendmail arguments
+SENDMAIL_ARGS =
 
 [cache]
 ; Either "memory", "redis", or "memcache", default is "memory"
diff --git a/modules/mailer/mailer.go b/modules/mailer/mailer.go
index 0bb78de92a..a54e836173 100644
--- a/modules/mailer/mailer.go
+++ b/modules/mailer/mailer.go
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ func (s *sendmailSender) Send(from string, to []string, msg io.WriterTo) error {
 	var waitError error
 
 	args := []string{"-F", from, "-i"}
+	args = append(args, setting.MailService.SendmailArgs...)
 	args = append(args, to...)
 	log.Trace("Sending with: %s %v", setting.MailService.SendmailPath, args)
 	cmd := exec.Command(setting.MailService.SendmailPath, args...)
diff --git a/modules/setting/setting.go b/modules/setting/setting.go
index cb8cf7d39a..7706ee3e95 100644
--- a/modules/setting/setting.go
+++ b/modules/setting/setting.go
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/go-macaron/session"
 	_ "github.com/go-macaron/session/redis" // redis plugin for store session
 	"github.com/go-xorm/core"
+	"github.com/kballard/go-shellquote"
 	"gopkg.in/ini.v1"
 	"strk.kbt.io/projects/go/libravatar"
 )
@@ -1326,6 +1327,7 @@ type Mailer struct {
 	// Sendmail sender
 	UseSendmail  bool
 	SendmailPath string
+	SendmailArgs []string
 }
 
 var (
@@ -1372,6 +1374,13 @@ func newMailService() {
 	MailService.FromName = parsed.Name
 	MailService.FromEmail = parsed.Address
 
+	if MailService.UseSendmail {
+		MailService.SendmailArgs, err = shellquote.Split(sec.Key("SENDMAIL_ARGS").String())
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Error(4, "Failed to parse Sendmail args: %v", CustomConf, err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	log.Info("Mail Service Enabled")
 }
 
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/LICENSE b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a6d77312e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Copyright (C) 2014 Kevin Ballard
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
+OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
+DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
+OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/README b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4d34e87afc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/README
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+PACKAGE
+
+package shellquote
+    import "github.com/kballard/go-shellquote"
+
+    Shellquote provides utilities for joining/splitting strings using sh's
+    word-splitting rules.
+
+VARIABLES
+
+var (
+    UnterminatedSingleQuoteError = errors.New("Unterminated single-quoted string")
+    UnterminatedDoubleQuoteError = errors.New("Unterminated double-quoted string")
+    UnterminatedEscapeError      = errors.New("Unterminated backslash-escape")
+)
+
+
+FUNCTIONS
+
+func Join(args ...string) string
+    Join quotes each argument and joins them with a space. If passed to
+    /bin/sh, the resulting string will be split back into the original
+    arguments.
+
+func Split(input string) (words []string, err error)
+    Split splits a string according to /bin/sh's word-splitting rules. It
+    supports backslash-escapes, single-quotes, and double-quotes. Notably it
+    does not support the $'' style of quoting. It also doesn't attempt to
+    perform any other sort of expansion, including brace expansion, shell
+    expansion, or pathname expansion.
+
+    If the given input has an unterminated quoted string or ends in a
+    backslash-escape, one of UnterminatedSingleQuoteError,
+    UnterminatedDoubleQuoteError, or UnterminatedEscapeError is returned.
+
+
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/doc.go b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/doc.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9445fa4ad9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/doc.go
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// Shellquote provides utilities for joining/splitting strings using sh's
+// word-splitting rules.
+package shellquote
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/quote.go b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/quote.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72a8cb38b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/quote.go
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+package shellquote
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"strings"
+	"unicode/utf8"
+)
+
+// Join quotes each argument and joins them with a space.
+// If passed to /bin/sh, the resulting string will be split back into the
+// original arguments.
+func Join(args ...string) string {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	for i, arg := range args {
+		if i != 0 {
+			buf.WriteByte(' ')
+		}
+		quote(arg, &buf)
+	}
+	return buf.String()
+}
+
+const (
+	specialChars      = "\\'\"`${[|&;<>()*?!"
+	extraSpecialChars = " \t\n"
+	prefixChars       = "~"
+)
+
+func quote(word string, buf *bytes.Buffer) {
+	// We want to try to produce a "nice" output. As such, we will
+	// backslash-escape most characters, but if we encounter a space, or if we
+	// encounter an extra-special char (which doesn't work with
+	// backslash-escaping) we switch over to quoting the whole word. We do this
+	// with a space because it's typically easier for people to read multi-word
+	// arguments when quoted with a space rather than with ugly backslashes
+	// everywhere.
+	origLen := buf.Len()
+
+	if len(word) == 0 {
+		// oops, no content
+		buf.WriteString("''")
+		return
+	}
+
+	cur, prev := word, word
+	atStart := true
+	for len(cur) > 0 {
+		c, l := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(cur)
+		cur = cur[l:]
+		if strings.ContainsRune(specialChars, c) || (atStart && strings.ContainsRune(prefixChars, c)) {
+			// copy the non-special chars up to this point
+			if len(cur) < len(prev) {
+				buf.WriteString(prev[0 : len(prev)-len(cur)-l])
+			}
+			buf.WriteByte('\\')
+			buf.WriteRune(c)
+			prev = cur
+		} else if strings.ContainsRune(extraSpecialChars, c) {
+			// start over in quote mode
+			buf.Truncate(origLen)
+			goto quote
+		}
+		atStart = false
+	}
+	if len(prev) > 0 {
+		buf.WriteString(prev)
+	}
+	return
+
+quote:
+	// quote mode
+	// Use single-quotes, but if we find a single-quote in the word, we need
+	// to terminate the string, emit an escaped quote, and start the string up
+	// again
+	inQuote := false
+	for len(word) > 0 {
+		i := strings.IndexRune(word, '\'')
+		if i == -1 {
+			break
+		}
+		if i > 0 {
+			if !inQuote {
+				buf.WriteByte('\'')
+				inQuote = true
+			}
+			buf.WriteString(word[0:i])
+		}
+		word = word[i+1:]
+		if inQuote {
+			buf.WriteByte('\'')
+			inQuote = false
+		}
+		buf.WriteString("\\'")
+	}
+	if len(word) > 0 {
+		if !inQuote {
+			buf.WriteByte('\'')
+		}
+		buf.WriteString(word)
+		buf.WriteByte('\'')
+	}
+}
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/unquote.go b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/unquote.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba3a0f2271
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/unquote.go
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+package shellquote
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"unicode/utf8"
+)
+
+var (
+	UnterminatedSingleQuoteError = errors.New("Unterminated single-quoted string")
+	UnterminatedDoubleQuoteError = errors.New("Unterminated double-quoted string")
+	UnterminatedEscapeError      = errors.New("Unterminated backslash-escape")
+)
+
+var (
+	splitChars        = " \n\t"
+	singleChar        = '\''
+	doubleChar        = '"'
+	escapeChar        = '\\'
+	doubleEscapeChars = "$`\"\n\\"
+)
+
+// Split splits a string according to /bin/sh's word-splitting rules. It
+// supports backslash-escapes, single-quotes, and double-quotes. Notably it does
+// not support the $'' style of quoting. It also doesn't attempt to perform any
+// other sort of expansion, including brace expansion, shell expansion, or
+// pathname expansion.
+//
+// If the given input has an unterminated quoted string or ends in a
+// backslash-escape, one of UnterminatedSingleQuoteError,
+// UnterminatedDoubleQuoteError, or UnterminatedEscapeError is returned.
+func Split(input string) (words []string, err error) {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	words = make([]string, 0)
+
+	for len(input) > 0 {
+		// skip any splitChars at the start
+		c, l := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(input)
+		if strings.ContainsRune(splitChars, c) {
+			input = input[l:]
+			continue
+		}
+
+		var word string
+		word, input, err = splitWord(input, &buf)
+		if err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+		words = append(words, word)
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+func splitWord(input string, buf *bytes.Buffer) (word string, remainder string, err error) {
+	buf.Reset()
+
+raw:
+	{
+		cur := input
+		for len(cur) > 0 {
+			c, l := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(cur)
+			cur = cur[l:]
+			if c == singleChar {
+				buf.WriteString(input[0 : len(input)-len(cur)-l])
+				input = cur
+				goto single
+			} else if c == doubleChar {
+				buf.WriteString(input[0 : len(input)-len(cur)-l])
+				input = cur
+				goto double
+			} else if c == escapeChar {
+				buf.WriteString(input[0 : len(input)-len(cur)-l])
+				input = cur
+				goto escape
+			} else if strings.ContainsRune(splitChars, c) {
+				buf.WriteString(input[0 : len(input)-len(cur)-l])
+				return buf.String(), cur, nil
+			}
+		}
+		if len(input) > 0 {
+			buf.WriteString(input)
+			input = ""
+		}
+		goto done
+	}
+
+escape:
+	{
+		if len(input) == 0 {
+			return "", "", UnterminatedEscapeError
+		}
+		c, l := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(input)
+		if c == '\n' {
+			// a backslash-escaped newline is elided from the output entirely
+		} else {
+			buf.WriteString(input[:l])
+		}
+		input = input[l:]
+	}
+	goto raw
+
+single:
+	{
+		i := strings.IndexRune(input, singleChar)
+		if i == -1 {
+			return "", "", UnterminatedSingleQuoteError
+		}
+		buf.WriteString(input[0:i])
+		input = input[i+1:]
+		goto raw
+	}
+
+double:
+	{
+		cur := input
+		for len(cur) > 0 {
+			c, l := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(cur)
+			cur = cur[l:]
+			if c == doubleChar {
+				buf.WriteString(input[0 : len(input)-len(cur)-l])
+				input = cur
+				goto raw
+			} else if c == escapeChar {
+				// bash only supports certain escapes in double-quoted strings
+				c2, l2 := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(cur)
+				cur = cur[l2:]
+				if strings.ContainsRune(doubleEscapeChars, c2) {
+					buf.WriteString(input[0 : len(input)-len(cur)-l-l2])
+					if c2 == '\n' {
+						// newline is special, skip the backslash entirely
+					} else {
+						buf.WriteRune(c2)
+					}
+					input = cur
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return "", "", UnterminatedDoubleQuoteError
+	}
+
+done:
+	return buf.String(), input, nil
+}
diff --git a/vendor/vendor.json b/vendor/vendor.json
index df0dcec814..fb748b3e47 100644
--- a/vendor/vendor.json
+++ b/vendor/vendor.json
@@ -521,6 +521,12 @@
 			"revision": "b2c7a7da5b2995941048f60146e67702a292e468",
 			"revisionTime": "2016-02-12T04:00:40Z"
 		},
+		{
+			"checksumSHA1": "+IzngblnBQNh+GmsS2O7jqmzSVQ=",
+			"path": "github.com/kballard/go-shellquote",
+			"revision": "cd60e84ee657ff3dc51de0b4f55dd299a3e136f2",
+			"revisionTime": "2017-06-19T18:30:22Z"
+		},
 		{
 			"checksumSHA1": "VJk3rOWfxEV9Ilig5lgzH1qg8Ss=",
 			"path": "github.com/keybase/go-crypto/brainpool",