September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
10h 12m
English
Content preview from sendmail 8.13 Companion
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A Useful Table
Beginning with V8.7 sendmail, rule-testing mode offers 13 simple commands that will help you understand your configuration file. They are listed in Table 8-1.
Table 8-1. Available -bt commands
|
Command |
sendmail text reference |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
|
8.2.1[3ed] |
Give a macro a value |
|
|
8.2.2[3ed] |
Add a value to a class |
|
|
8.4.1[3ed] |
Show a rule set’s rules |
|
|
8.4.2[3ed] |
List all delivery agents |
|
|
16.1[3ed] |
Turn debugging on or off |
|
|
8.3.1[3ed] |
Show a macro’s value |
|
|
8.3.2[3ed] |
List a class’s contents |
|
|
8.5.1[3ed] |
Canonify a host |
|
|
8.5.2[3ed] |
Look up MX records |
|
|
8.5.3[3ed] |
Look up a database item |
|
|
8.5.4[3ed] |
Select whom to /parse or /try |
|
|
8.5.5[3ed] |
Parse an address |
|
|
8.5.6[3ed] |
Try a delivery agent |
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