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Preface

1.  Mail Services (Overview)

2.  Mail Services (Tasks)

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

How to Set Up a Mail Client

How to Set Up a Mail Host

How to Set Up a Mail Gateway

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

How to Create a Keyed Map File

Managing the postmaster Alias

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)

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

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)

Index

Planning Your Mail System

The following list describes some concerns that should be part of your planning process.

After you have completed the planning process, set up the systems on your site to perform the functions that are described in Setting Up Mail Services (Task Map). For other task information, refer to Task Map for Mail Services.

Local Mail Only

The simplest mail configuration, as shown in Figure 2-1, is two or more workstations that are connected to one mail host. Mail is completely local. All the clients store mail on their local disks, and the clients act as mail servers. Mail addresses are parsed by using the /etc/mail/aliases files.

Figure 2-1 Local Mail Configuration

image:Diagram shows the dependencies of a mail host to mail clients.

To set up this kind of mail configuration, you need the following.

For task information about setting up your mail service, refer to Setting Up Mail Services. If you are looking for a particular procedure that is related to setting up your mail service, refer to Setting Up Mail Services (Task Map).

Local Mail and a Remote Connection

The most common mail configuration in a small network is shown in Figure 2-2. One system includes the mail server, the mail host, and the mail gateway that provides the remote connection. Mail is distributed by using the /etc/mail/aliases files on the mail gateway. No name service is required.

Figure 2-2 Local Mail Configuration With a UUCP Connection

image:Diagram shows the dependencies of mail clients to a mail gateway.

In this configuration, you can assume that the mail clients mount their mail files from /var/mail on the mail host. To set up this kind of mail configuration, you need the following.

For task information about setting up your mail service, refer to Setting Up Mail Services. If you are looking for a particular procedure that is related to setting up your mail service, refer to Setting Up Mail Services (Task Map).