Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 251

SEND~IL(8)
MAINTENANCE COMMANDS
SENDMAIL ( 8 )
FILES
Ttime
tBtz,dtz
uN
Set the timeout on messages in the queue to the specified time. After sitting
in the queue for this amount of time, they will be returned to the sender. The
default is three days.
Set the name of the time zone.
Set the default user id for mailers.
If the first character of the user name is a vertical bar, the rest of the user name
is
used as the
name of a program to pipe the mail to. It may be necessary to quote the name of the user to
keep sendmail from suppressing the blanks from between arguments.
Sendmail
returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are defined in
<
sysezits.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_TE:MPF AIL Message could not be sent immediately, but was queued.
If invoked as newaliases, sendmail rebuilds the alias database. If invoked as mailq, send mail
prints the contents of the mail queue.
E~cept
for
/usr/lib/sendmail.c!,
these pathnames are all specified in
/usr/lib/sendmail.c!.
Thus,
th~se values are only approximations.
, ... ,r/lib/aliases raw data for alias names
/ll,r
/lib / aliases. pag
/qt;r llib/aliases.dir data base of alias names
/u~r
Ilib/sendmail.cf configuration file
/usr/lib/sendmail.fc frozen configuration
/usr /lib/sendmail.hf help file
/usr /lib/sendmail.st collected statistics
/usr/bin/uux to deliver uucp mail
/bin/mail to deliver local mail
lusr Ispool/mqueue/* temp files and queued mail
SEE ALSO
BUGS
96
bitJ{I), binmail{I), mail{I), aliases(5),
DARPA Internet Request For Comments RFC819, RFC821, RFC822,
In the
System Manager'a Manual:
Setting Up the Mail System
in the
System Set-up and Operation
chapter.
Sendmail - An Internetwork Mail Router,
in the Tutorials section
Sendmail Installation and Operation
Guide, in the Tutorials section
SendmtJil
converts blanks in addresses to dots. This is incorrect according to the old
ARPANET
mail protocol RFC733 (NIC 41952), but is consistent with the new protocols (RFC822).
Last change: 6 March 1984 Sun Release
1.1