Sendmail Desktop Reference

Bryan Costales, Eric Allman9781565922785, 1-56592-278-6

This quick-reference guide to the send mail program provides a complete overview of the latest version (V8.8) of send mail, from command line switches to configuration commands, from options declarations to macro definitions, and from m4 features to debugging switches – all packed into a convenient portable booklet.

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Table of contents :
Local Disk……Page 0
sendmail Desktop Reference……Page 1
Preface……Page 2
[Preface] Conventions……Page 3
[Chapter 1] How to Run……Page 4
[Chapter 1] 1.2 Command-Line Switches……Page 6
[Chapter 1] 1.3 Some Handy Debugging Switches……Page 9
[Chapter 1] 1.4 Rule-Testing Mode (-bt) Commands……Page 11
[Chapter 1] 1.5 Hints……Page 13
[Chapter 2] The sendmail.cf File……Page 14
[Chapter 2] 2.2 Delivery Agent Equates……Page 17
[Chapter 2] 2.3 Delivery Agent F= Flags……Page 19
[Chapter 2] 2.4 Defined Macros……Page 23
[Chapter 2] 2.5 Class Macros……Page 27
[Chapter 2] 2.6 Options……Page 29
[Chapter 2] 2.7 The Timeout Option……Page 38
[Chapter 2] 2.8 Rule Sets……Page 41
[Chapter 2] 2.9 Delivery Agent S= and R=……Page 44
[Chapter 2] 2.10 The check_ Rule Sets……Page 45
[Chapter 2] 2.11 Rules……Page 47
[Chapter 2] 2.12 Wildcard Operators in the LHS……Page 49
[Chapter 2] 2.13 Positional Operators in the RHS……Page 51
[Chapter 2] 2.14 Other Operators in the RHS……Page 52
[Chapter 2] 2.15 Operators that Return a Triple……Page 53
[Chapter 2] 2.16 Conditional Operators……Page 54
[Chapter 2] 2.17 Hints……Page 55
[Chapter 3] Databases……Page 56
[Chapter 3] 3.2 Aliasing……Page 58
[Chapter 3] 3.3 The ~/.forward file……Page 60
[Chapter 3] 3.4 :include: Files and Mailing Lists……Page 61
[Chapter 3] 3.5 The makemap Program……Page 62
[Chapter 3] 3.6 The K Command……Page 64
[Chapter 3] 3.7 Classes……Page 66
[Chapter 3] 3.8 Databases in Rules……Page 68
[Chapter 3] 3.9 The User Database……Page 69
[Chapter 3] 3.10 Hints……Page 70
[Chapter 4] Configuring with m4……Page 71
[Chapter 4] 4.2 FEATURE Declarations……Page 74
[Chapter 4] 4.3 MAILER Declarations……Page 77
[Chapter 4] 4.4 Virtual User Tables……Page 79
[Chapter 4] 4.5 Mailer Tables……Page 80
[Chapter 4] 4.6 Hints……Page 81
[Chapter 5] Additional Information Sources……Page 82