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Managing
sendmail
Services in Oracle
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Solaris 11.2
July 2014
Describes how to configure the sendmail service to manage email.
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1 About Mail Services
What's New With Mail Services
Changes in this Release
Significant Changes in Earlier Releases
Other sendmail Information Sources
Introduction to the Components of Mail Services
Overview of the Software Components
Overview of the Hardware Components
2 Administering Mail Services
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
(Optional)
(Optional)
(Optional)
(Optional)
(Optional)
How to Set Up a Mail Client
(Optional)
(Optional)
How to Set Up a Mail Host
(Optional)
(Optional)
How to Set Up a Mail Gateway
(Optional)
(Optional)
(Optional)
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
(Optional)
(Optional)
How to Create a Keyed Map File
Managing the postmaster Alias
How to Create a postmaster Alias in Each Local /etc/mail/aliases File
(Optional)
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
(Optional)
(Optional)
(Optional)
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)
Oracle Solaris Version of sendmail
Flags Used and Not Used to Compile sendmail
MILTER, Mail Filter API for sendmail
Alternative sendmail Commands
Versions of the Configuration File
Software and Hardware Components of Mail Services
Software Components
Mail User Agent
Mail Transfer Agent
Local Delivery Agent
Mailers and sendmail
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Mailers
UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program (UUCP) Mailers
Mail Addresses
Domains and Subdomains
Name Service Domain Name and Mail Domain Name
Typical Format for Mail Addresses
Route???Independent Mail Addresses
Mailbox Files
Mail Aliases
Hardware Components
Mail Host
Mail Server
Mail Client
Mail Gateway
Mail Service Programs and Files
Enhancement for vacation Utility
Contents of the /usr/bin Directory
Contents of the /etc/mail Directory
Contents of the /etc/mail/cf Directory
Contents of the /usr/lib Directory
Other Files Used for Mail Services
Interactions of Mail Programs
sendmail Program
sendmail and Its Rerouting Mechanisms
sendmail Features
sendmail Configuration File
Mail Alias Files
.mailrc Aliases
/etc/mail/aliases File
NIS aliases Map
.forward Files
Situations to Avoid
Controls for .forward files
.forward.hostname File
.forward+detail File
/etc/default/sendmail File
Mail Addresses and Mail Routing
Interactions of sendmail With Name Services
sendmail.cf and Mail Domains
sendmail and Name Services
Mail Domains and Name Service Domains
Requirements for Name Services
Interactions of NIS and sendmail
Interactions of sendmail With NIS and DNS
Changes in Version 8.14 of sendmail
Changes in Version 8.13 of sendmail
Support for Running SMTP With TLS in Version 8.13 of sendmail
Configuration File Options for Running SMTP With TLS
Macros for Running SMTP With TLS
Rule Sets for Running SMTP With TLS
Security Considerations Related to Running SMTP With TLS
Additional Command-Line Options in Version 8.13 of sendmail
Additional and Revised Configuration File Options in Version 8.13 of sendmail
Additional and Revised FEATURE Declarations in Version 8.13 of sendmail
Changes From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Support for TCP Wrappers From Version 8.12 of sendmail
submit.cf Configuration File From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Functions That Distinguish sendmail.cf From submit.cf
Functional Changes From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional or Deprecated Command-Line Options From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional Arguments for the PidFile and ProcessTitlePrefix Options From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional Defined Macros From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional Macros From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional MAX Macros From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional and Revised m4 Configuration Macros From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Changes to the FEATURE Declaration From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Changes to the MAILER Declaration From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional Delivery Agent Flags From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional Equates for Delivery Agents From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional Queue Features From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Changes for LDAP From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Change to the Built-In Mailer From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Additional Rule Sets From Version 8.12 of sendmail
Changes to Files From Version 8.12 of sendmail
sendmail Version 8.12 and IPv6 Addresses in Configuration
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