Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide
SMM:08-3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. BASIC INSTALLATION ...............................................................................................................
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1.1. Compiling Sendmail ..............................................................................................................
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1.1.1. Tweaking the Build Invocation .....................................................................................
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1.1.2. Creating a Site Configuration File ................................................................................
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1.1.3. Tweaking the Makefile .................................................................................................
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1.1.4. Compilation and installation ........................................................................................
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1.2. Configuration Files ................................................................................................................
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1.3. Details of Installation Files ................................................................................................... 9
1.3.1. /usr/sbin/sendmail ......................................................................................................... 10
1.3.2. /etc/mail/sendmail.cf .................................................................................................... 10
1.3.3. /etc/mail/submit.cf ........................................................................................................ 10
1.3.4. /usr/bin/newaliases .......................................................................................................
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1.3.5. /usr/bin/hoststat ............................................................................................................ 10
1.3.6. /usr/bin/purgestat ..........................................................................................................
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1.3.7. /var/spool/mqueue ........................................................................................................
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1.3.8. /var/spool/clientmqueue ...............................................................................................
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1.3.9. /var/spool/mqueue/.hoststat ..........................................................................................
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1.3.10. /etc/mail/aliases* ........................................................................................................ 11
1.3.11. /etc/rc or /etc/init.d/sendmail ......................................................................................
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1.3.12. /etc/mail/helpfile ......................................................................................................... 12
1.3.13. /etc/mail/statistics ....................................................................................................... 12
1.3.14. /usr/bin/mailq ............................................................................................................. 12
1.3.15. sendmail.pid ............................................................................................................... 12
1.3.16. Map Files ....................................................................................................................
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2. NORMAL OPERATIONS .............................................................................................................
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2.1. The System Log .................................................................................................................... 14
2.1.1. Format ..........................................................................................................................
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2.1.2. Levels ...........................................................................................................................
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2.2. Dumping State .......................................................................................................................
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2.3. The Mail Queues ................................................................................................................... 15
2.3.1. Queue Groups and Queue Directories ..........................................................................
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2.3.2. Queue Runs ..................................................................................................................
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2.3.3. Manual Intervention .....................................................................................................
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2.3.4. Printing the queue ......................................................................................................... 17
2.3.5. Forcing the queue ......................................................................................................... 17
2.3.6. Quarantined Queue Items .............................................................................................
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2.4. Disk Based Connection Information .....................................................................................
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2.5. The Service Switch ................................................................................................................ 19
2.6. The Alias Database ................................................................................................................ 19
2.6.1. Rebuilding the alias database .......................................................................................
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2.6.2. Potential problems ........................................................................................................
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2.6.3. List owners ...................................................................................................................
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