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Mail Administration Guide
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Preface
Chapter 1 Understanding Mail Services
Mail Services Terminology
Mail Services Software Terminology
Mail User Agent
Mail Transfer Agent
Mail Delivery Agent
Mailers
Domain Names
Mail Address
Route-Independent Addressing
Route-Based Addressing
Mailbox
Aliases
Uses for Aliases Files
Hardware Components of a Mail Configuration
Mail Host
Mail Server
Mail Client
Mail Gateway
Mail Service Programs and Files
sendmail Program
sendmail Features
sendmail Configuration File
Chapter 2 Setting Up and Administering Mail Services
Planning Your Mail System
Local Mail Only
Local Mail in Remote Mode
Local Mail and a Remote Connection
Two Domains and a Gateway
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
Building a sendmail Configuration File
How to Build a New sendmail.cf File
Creating Mail Aliases
How to List the Contents of an NIS+ Aliases Table
To List the Entire Contents of the NIS+ mail_aliases Table
To List Individual Entries in the NIS+ mail_aliases Table
How to Add Aliases to a NIS+ mail_aliases Table From the Command Line
To Initiate a NIS+ Table
To Add Aliases to a NIS+ mail_aliases Table From the Command Line
How to Add Entries by Editing a NIS+ mail_aliases Table
How to Change Entries in a NIS+ mail_aliases Table
How to Delete Entries From a NIS+ mail_aliases Table
Setting Up NIS mail.aliases Map
How to Set Up NIS mail.aliases Map
Setting Up Local Mail Aliases Files
How to Set Up Local Mail Aliases Files
How to Create a Keyed Map File
Setting Up DNS to Work With sendmail
How to Use DNS With sendmail
Setting Up the Postmaster Alias
How to Create a Separate Mailbox for postmaster
How to Add the postmaster Mailbox to the Aliases
Administering the Mail Queue
How to Print the Queue
How to Force the Queue
How to Run a Subset of the Mail Queue
How to Move the Queue
How to Run the Old Mail Queue
Administering .forward Files
How to Disable .forward Files
How to Change the .forward File Search Path
How to Create and Populate /etc/shells
Troubleshooting Tips
How to Test the Mail Configuration
How to Check Aliases
How to Test the sendmail Rule Sets
How to Verify Connections to Other Systems
System Log
Other Diagnostic Information
Chapter 3 sendmail Reference
What's New with sendmail
The New Configuration Files
Changes to the sendmail Command Line Options
Changes to the sendmail Configuration File Options
Solaris sendmail Differences
Flags Used When Compiling sendmail
Alternative sendmail Commands
Define Configuration File Version
How Mail Addressing Works
How sendmail Interacts With a Name Service
Setting Up sendmail Requirements for Name Services
Establishing the Mail Domain Name with a Name Service
Host Name Space Data
Configuration Issues with NIS and sendmail
Configuration Issues with NIS and DNS while Using sendmail
Configuration Issues with NIS+ and sendmail
Configuration Issues with NIS+ and DNS while Using sendmail
Other Mail-Related Topics
Mail Alias Files
.mailrc Aliases
/etc/mail/aliases
NIS Aliases Map
NIS+ mail_aliases Table
.forward Files
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