HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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sendmail(1M) sendmail(1M)
needvrfyhelo Insist on HELO (or EHLO) before the VRFY command.
novrfy Disallow VRFY command totally.
restrictmailq Restrict mailq command.
restrictqrun Restrict -q command-line flag.
noreceipts Don’t return success DSN’s.
goaway Disallow essentially all SMTP status queries.
authwarnings Put X-Authentication-Warning
headers in messages if
HELO was not used inside SMTP transaction.
noverb flag to disable the SMTP VERB command.
noetrn flag to disable the SMTP ETRN command.
By default, authwarnings and restrictqrun are enabled.
Aliases
You can set up system aliases and user forwarding. The alias and .forward files are described in the
aliases(5) manpage.
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. This version of HP-UX sendmail originally came from sendmail 8.9.3.
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
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