Contents of the /etc/mail Directory
The following table shows the contents of the /etc/mail
directory.
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| File
| Default settings for the mailx user agent.
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| File
| Mail-forwarding information.
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| File
| Default binary form of mail-forwarding information that is created
by running newaliases.
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| File
| Binary form of mail-forwarding information that is created by
running newaliases. Can still be used, but is no
longer used by default starting with the Solaris 9 release.
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| File
| Binary form of mail-forwarding information that is created by
running newaliases. Can still be used, but is no
longer used by default starting with the Solaris 9 release.
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| File
| Default settings for the mailx user agent.
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| Symbolic link
| A symbolic link from this sample configuration file for main
systems to sendmail.cf is provided for backwards
compatibility. This file is not needed in version 8.13 of sendmail.
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| File
| List of all domains for which relaying is allowed. By default,
only the local domain is allowed.
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| File
| Configuration file for mail routing.
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| File
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| File
| Optional file that you can create if the number of aliases for
the mail host is too long.
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| File
| Help file that is used by the SMTP HELP command.
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| File
| File that lists the PID of the listening daemon and is now in /system/volatile.
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| File
| sendmail statistics file. If this file is
present, sendmail logs the amount of traffic through
each mailer. Previously, this file was called sendmail.st.
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| Symbolic link
| A symbolic link from this sample configuration file for subsidiary
systems to sendmail.cf is provided for backwards
compatibility. This file is not needed in version 8.13 of sendmail.
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| File
| File that lists the users (one user per line) who can be trusted
to perform certain mail operations. By default, only root is
in this file. Certain mail operations, when performed by untrusted
users, result in the following warning, X-Authentication-Warning:
header being added to a message.
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