December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
56h 38m
English
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Name
DeliveryMode
Synopsis
sendmail can use four modes for delivering mail. Three have always been a part of sendmail: background, interactive, and queue-only. The deferred mode has been added under V8.7 and later sendmail.
The mode is selected with the DeliveryMode option:
O DeliveryMode=mode ← configuration file (V8.7 and later) -ODeliveryMode=mode ← command line (V8.7 and later) define(`confDELIVERY_MODE',mode) ← mc configuration (V8.7 and later) Odmode ← configuration file (deprecated) -odmode← command line (deprecated)
The mode argument is of type
character. It is case-sensitive (must be
lowercase) and is selected from one of the keywords shown in Table 24-16. Only the first letter of each is recognized,
but we recommend full words for improved clarity.
Table 24-16. DeliveryMode option keywords
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Keyword |
§ |
Description |
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Background (asynchronous) delivery | |
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Deferred (held as is) delivery (V8.7 and later) | |
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Interactive (synchronous) delivery | |
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Queued (held but processed) delivery |
If the mode argument is missing, this option
defaults to the i or interactive mode. If the
entire DeliveryMode option is missing, V8
sendmail defaults to background mode, but old
sendmail behaves unpredictably; consequently,
this option should be considered mandatory. The default for the
mc configuration is also background.
If the mode character is anything other than the first lowercase ...
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