Managing sendmail Services in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Contents of the /usr/bin Directory

The following table shows the contents of the /usr/bin directory, which is used for mail services.

Name
Type
Description
mail
File
A user agent.
mailcompat
File
A filter to store mail in SunOS 4.1 mailbox format.
mailq
File
A program that lists the content of the mail queue.
mailstats
File
A program that is used to read mail statistics that are stored in the /etc/mail/statistics file (if present).
mailx
File
A user agent.
mconnect
File
A program that connects to the mailer for address verification and debugging.
praliases
File
A command to “uncompile” the alias database. Refer to the uncompile information that is provided in the man page for praliases(1).
rmail
Symbolic Link
A symbolic link to /usr/bin/mail. Command that is often used to permit only the sending of mail.
vacation
File
A command to set up an automatic reply to mail.