Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (August 2002)

Chapter 10
Sendmail for MPE/iX
Distribution Highlights
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• /usr/sbin/smrsh
All Sendmail runtime configuration files reside in the /etc/mail directory which is populated at installation
time from /SENDMAIL/CURRENT/etc/mail.sample for any files that do not already exist. The /etc/mail
directory contains the following files which must only be altered by the user SERVER.SENDMAIL:
access The ASCII access database map used to accept or reject mail from selected domains. This
map is initially empty, which accepts mail from all domains.
access.db The compiled access database map created by makemap.
aliases The ASCII aliases database map used to create local mailbox names that do not necessarily
correspond one-to-one with local users. Aliases can be defined to deliver mail to multiple
users, to files, or to programs. This map initially defines aliases postmaster as
SERVER.SENDMAIL and MAILER-DAEMON as postmaster.
aliases.db The compiled aliases database map created by newaliases.
domaintable The ASCII domaintable database map used to remap domain names in mail headers.
Because the headers are rewritten, you should only use this for your own domains. This
map is initially empty, which does no header rewriting.
domaintable.db The compiled domaintable database map created by makemap.
genericstable The ASCII genericstable database map used to remap the user and hostname portion of
outgoing header addresses. This map is initially empty, which does no reader rewriting.
genericstable.db The compiled genericstable database map created by makemap.
helpfile The documentation returned by the SMTP protocol HELP command.
local-host-names The ASCII file containing hostname aliases (one per line) for the local machine. This file is
initially empty, and so incoming e-mail will only be accepted if it is addressed using the true
host name of the local machine.
mailertable The ASCII mailertable database map used to override mail routing for selected domains.
This map is initially empty, and so all mail routing is controlled by sendmail.cf.
mailertable.db The compiled mailertable database map created by makemap.
sendmail.cf The m4-created configuration file for the mail daemon.
sendmail.pid The POSIX PID of the currently running mail daemon.
statistics The binary file used to collect Sendmail traffic statistics.
submit.cf The m4-created configuration file for new mail submission by the local host.
virtusertable The ASCII virtusertable database map used to perform domain-specific aliasing and
hosting of multiple virtual domains on one machine. This map is initially empty, and so no
virtual domain aliases will be recognized.
virtusertable.db The compiled virtusertable database map created by makemap.