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Managing sendmail Services in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library |
Local Mail and a Remote Connection
Setting Up Mail Services (Task Map)
Changing the sendmail Configuration (Task Map)
Changing the sendmail Configuration
How to Build a New sendmail.cf File
How to Automatically Rebuild a Configuration File
How to Use sendmail in the Open Mode
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
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)
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 Test the sendmail Rule Sets
How to Verify Connections to Other Systems
This chapter describes how to set up and administer mail services. If you are not familiar with administering mail services, read Chapter 1, Mail Services (Overview) for an introduction to the components of mail services. This chapter also provides a description of a typical mail service configuration, as shown in Figure 1-1. The following list can help you find groups of related procedures that are covered in this chapter.
See Chapter 3, Mail Services (Reference) for a more detailed description of the components of mail services. This chapter also describes the mail service programs and files, the mail routing process, the interactions of sendmail with name services, and the features in version 8.13 of sendmail that are not fully described in the sendmail(1M) man page.