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Managing sendmail Services in Oracle® Solaris 11.3

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Updated: April 2020
 
 

How to Test the sendmail Rule Sets

  1. Change to address test mode.
    # /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
  2. Test a mail address.

    Provide the following rule-set numbers and address at the last prompt (>).

    > 3,0 mail-address
  3. End the session.

    Press Control-D.

Example 2  Address Test Mode Output

This example shows sample output from the address test mode.

% /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> 3,0 sandy@phoenix
canonify           input: sandy @ phoenix
Canonify2          input: sandy < @ phoenix >
Canonify2        returns: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
canonify         returns: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
parse              input: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
Parse0             input: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
Parse0           returns: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
ParseLocal         input: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
ParseLocal       returns: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
Parse1             input: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
MailerToTriple     input: < mailhost . phoenix . example . com > 
     sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
MailerToTriple   returns: $# relay $@ mailhost . phoenix . example . com 
     $: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
Parse1           returns: $# relay $@ mailhost . phoenix . example . com 
     $: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >
parse            returns: $# relay $@ mailhost . phoenix . example . com 
     $: sandy < @ phoenix . example . com . >