sendmail Commands

sendmail Commands

These section describes some of the related sendmail programs and commands. The programs and commands discussed in this section are

sendmail
newaliases
mailq

sendmail

sendmail is the program that implements sendmail's routing and transfer service. As a program it has many flags that can be set on the command line to tailor the sendmail environment. Appendix B, "IRIX sendmail Reference," provides complete descriptions of the various command line flags and options.

/usr/bsd/newaliases

newaliases is the program used to rebuild the DBM version of the aliases database. This program must be run any time the text version of the aliases file is modified. If newaliases is not run after making changes to the aliases file, the changes are not incorporated into the DBM alias database and are not seen by the sendmail program. See "Aliases Database" for more details about the alias database.

/usr/bin/mailq

The mailq command prints a current listing of the mail queue.