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Preface

1.  Mail Services (Overview)

2.  Mail Services (Tasks)

Task Map for Mail Services

Planning Your Mail System

Local Mail Only

Local Mail and a Remote Connection

Setting Up Mail Services (Task Map)

Setting Up Mail Services

How to Set Up a Mail Server

How to Set Up a Mail Client

How to Set Up a Mail Host

How to Set Up a Mail Gateway

How to Use DNS With sendmail

Changing the sendmail Configuration (Task Map)

Changing the sendmail Configuration

How to Build a New sendmail.cf File

Setting Up a Virtual Host

How to Automatically Rebuild a Configuration File

How to Use sendmail in the Open Mode

How to Set SMTP to Use TLS

How to Manage Mail Delivery by Using an Alternate Configuration of sendmail.cf

Administering Mail Alias Files (Task Map)

Administering Mail Alias Files

How to Set Up an NIS mail.aliases Map

How to Set Up a Local Mail Alias File

How to Create a Keyed Map File

Managing the postmaster Alias

How to Create a postmaster Alias in Each Local /etc/mail/aliases File

How to Create a Separate Mailbox for postmaster

How to Add the postmaster Mailbox to the Aliases in the /etc/mail/aliases File

Administering the Queue Directories (Task Map)

Administering the Queue Directories

How to Display the Contents of the Mail Queue, /var/spool/mqueue

How to Force Mail Queue Processing in the Mail Queue, /var/spool/mqueue

How to Run a Subset of the Mail Queue, /var/spool/mqueue

How to Move the Mail Queue, /var/spool/mqueue

How to Run the Old Mail Queue, /var/spool/omqueue

Administering .forward Files (Task Map)

Administering .forward Files

How to Disable .forward Files

How to Change the .forward-File Search Path

How to Create and Populate /etc/shells

Troubleshooting Procedures and Tips for Mail Services (Task Map)

Troubleshooting Procedures and Tips for Mail Services

How to Test the Mail Configuration

How to Check Mail Aliases

How to Test the sendmail Rule Sets

How to Verify Connections to Other Systems

Logging Error Messages

Other Sources for Mail Diagnostic Information

Resolving Error Messages

3.  Mail Services (Reference)

Index

Changing the sendmail Configuration (Task Map)

Task
Description
For Instructions
Building a sendmail configuration file
Use this procedure to modify your sendmail.cf file. An example of how to enable domain masquerading is included.
How to Build a New sendmail.cf File
Setting up a virtual host
Steps to configure sendmail so that mail is accepted for more than one domain.
Setting Up a Virtual Host
Setting up automatic rebuilding of the sendmail configuration file
Use this procedure to modify the sendmail service so that the sendmail.cf and submit.mc configuration files are automatically rebuilt after an upgrade.
How to Automatically Rebuild a Configuration File
Running sendmail in the open mode.
Use this procedure to modify the sendmail service properties to enable the open mode.
How to Use sendmail in the Open Mode
Setting SMTP to use Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Use this procedure to enable SMTP to have secure connections with TLS.
How to Set SMTP to Use TLS
Managing mail delivery with an alternate configuration
Use this procedure to prevent mail delivery problems that can occur if the master daemon is disabled.
How to Manage Mail Delivery by Using an Alternate Configuration of sendmail.cf
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