sendmail.1m (2010 09)

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sendmail(1M) sendmail(1M)
EXIT STATUS
sendmail returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are defined in
<sysexits.h>:
EX_OK Successful completion on all addresses.
EX_NOUSER User name not recognized.
EX_UNAVAILABLE
Catchall meaning necessary resources were not available.
EX_SYNTAX Syntax error in address.
EX_SOFTWARE Internal software error, including bad arguments.
EX_OSERR Temporary operating system error, such as ‘‘cannot fork’’ .
EX_NOHOST Host name not recognized.
EX_TEMPFAIL Message could not be sent immediately, but was queued.
WARNING
Terminating and restarting the
sendmail daemon may not be instantaneous.
AUTHOR
The
sendmail command was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and originally
appeared in BSD 4.2.
FILES
$HOME/.forward User’s mail forwarding file
$HOME/dead.letter
User’s failed message file
Except for the
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
file and the daemon process ID file, the below mentioned
default pathnames are all specified in the configuration file,
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
. These default
file names can be overridden in the configuration file.
/etc/mail/aliases
raw data for alias names
/etc/mail/aliases.db
data base of alias names
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
configuration file
/usr/share/lib/sendmail.hf
help file
/etc/mail/sendmail.st
collected statistics
/var/spool/mqueue/*
mail queue files
/etc/mail/sendmail.pid
The process id of the daemon
/etc/mail/sendmail.cw
The list of all hostnames that are recognized as local, which causes
sendmail to accept mail for these hosts and attempt local delivery
/etc/nsswitch.conf
configuration file for the name-service switch
SEE ALSO
elm(1), expand_alias(1), idlookup(1), mail(1), mailq(1), mailstats(1), mailx(1), praliases(1),
convert_awk(1M), identd(1M), killsm(1M), mtail(1M), newaliases(1M), smrsh(1M), aliases(5).
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