Name
Verbose
Synopsis
The sendmail program offers a verbose mode of
operation. In this “blow-by-blow”
mode, a description of all the sendmail
program’s actions is printed to the standard output.
This mode is valuable in running sendmail
interactively but must not be used when running in daemon mode.
Consequently, you should never set this option in the
sendmail.cf file. Instead, you should set it
from the command line using the -v
command-line
switch.
After the sendmail.cf file is parsed and the
command-line arguments have been processed,
sendmail checks to see whether it is in verbose
mode. If it is, it sets the HoldExpensive
option
(don’t connect to expensive mailers, HoldExpensive) to false and sets the
DeliveryMode
option (DeliveryMode)
to interactive.
The forms of the Verbose
option are as follows:
-v ← command-line shorthand O Verbose=bool← configuration file (V8.7 and later) -OVerbose=bool← command line (V8.7 and later) Ovbool ← configuration file (deprecated) -ovbool← command line (deprecated)
The argument bool
is of type
Boolean. If it is missing, the default value is
true (be verbose). If the entire option is missing, the default value
is false (be quiet).
Note that setting restrictexpand
(See this section), with the PrivacyOptions
option, disables this Verbose
option.
The Verbose
option is safe. When it is specified
from the command line, sendmail retains its
special privileges. Note that the Verbose
option
should never be set in the configuration file.
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