System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

Other Files Used for Mail Services

Several other files and directories are used for mail services, as shown in Table 26–11.

Table 26–11 Other Files Used for Mail Services

Name 

Type 

Description 

sendmailvars.org_dir

Table 

NIS+ version of sendmailvars file.

/etc/default/sendmail

File 

Lists the environment variables for the startup script for sendmail.

/etc/shells

File 

Lists the valid login shells. 

/usr/sbin/editmap

File 

Queries and edits single records in database maps for sendmail.

/usr/sbin/in.comsat

File 

Mail notification daemon. 

/usr/sbin/makemap

File 

Builds binary forms of keyed maps. 

/usr/sbin/newaliases

Link 

A link to /usr/lib/sendmail. Used to create the binary form of the alias database. Previously in /usr/bin.

/usr/sbin/syslogd

File 

Error message logger, used by sendmail.

/usr/sbin/etrn

File 

Perl script for starting the client-side remote mail queue. 

/usr/dt/bin/dtmail

File 

CDE mail user agent. 

/var/mail/mailbox1, /var/mail/mailbox2

File 

Mailboxes for delivered mail. 

/var/spool/clientmqueue

Directory 

Storage for mail that is delivered by the client daemon. 

/var/spool/mqueue

Directory 

Storage for mail that is delivered by the master daemon. 

$OPENWINHOME/bin/mailtool

File 

Window–based mail user agent. 

/var/run/sendmail.pid

File 

File that lists the PID of the listening daemon.