Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 250

SENDMAIL ( 8 )
-q(
time)
-rname
-t
-v
PROCESSING OPTIONS
MAINTENANCE
COMMANDS
SENDMAIL ( 8 )
Processed saved messages in the queue at given intervals. If time is omitted,
process the queue once. Time is given as a tagged number, with's' being
seconds, em' being minutes, 'h' being hours, cd' being days, and 'w' being
weeks. For example, "-qlh30m" or "-qQOm" would both set the timeout to
one hour thirty minutes.
An alternate and obsolete torm
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the -t ftag.
Read message tor recipients. To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines will be scanned tor peo-
ple to send to. The Bcc: line will be deleted betore transmission. Any
addresses in the argument list will be suppressed.
Go into verbose mode. Alias expansions will be announced, etc.
There are also a number
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processing options that may be set. Normally these will only be used
by a system administrator. Options may be set either on the command line using the
-0
ftag or
in the configuration file. These are described in detail in the Installation and Operation Guide.
The options are:
Afile
c
dz
D
ez
Fmode
r
gN
Hfile
Ln
m
o
Qqueuedir
rtimeout
Sfile
s
Sun Release 1.1
Use alternate alias file.
On mailers that are considered "expensive" to connect to, don't initiate
immediate connection. This requires queueing.
Set the delivery mode to
z.
Delivery modes are Ii' for interactive (synchro-
nous) delivery, 'b' tor background (asynchronous) delivery, and 'q' tor queue
only - that is, actual delivery is done the next time the queue is run.
Try to automatically rebuild the alias database if necessary .
Set error processing to mode
z.
Valid modes are em' to mail back the error
message, 'w' to "write" back the error message (or mail it back if the sender
is not logged in), 'p' to print the errors on the terminal (detault), 'q' to throw
away error messages (only exit status is returned), and Ie' to do special pro-
cessing for the BerkNet. If the text or the message is not mailed back by
modes em' or
'w'
and
ir
the sender is local to this machine, a copy of the mes-
sage is appended to the file "dead.letter" in the sender's home directory.
The mode to use when creating temporary files.
Save UNIX-style From lines at the tront
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messages.
The detault group id to use when calling mailers.
The SMTP help file.
Do not take dots on a line by themselves as a message terminator.
The log level.
Send to "me" (the sender) also it I am in an alias expansion.
If set, this message may have old style headers. If not set, this message is
guaranteed to have new style headers (that is, commas instead of spaces
between addresses). If set, an adaptive algorithm is used that will correctly
determine the header tormat in most cases.
Select the directory in which to queue messages.
The timeout on reads; it none is set, 8tmdmail will wait forever tor a mailer.
Save statistics in the named file.
Always instantiate the queue file, even under circumstances where it is not
strictly necessary.
Last change: 6 March 1984
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