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sendmail 8.13 Companion

by Bryan Costales, George Jansen, Claus Assmann, Gregory Neil Shapiro
September 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
10h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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

.D

8.2.1[3ed]

Give a macro a value

.C

8.2.2[3ed]

Add a value to a class

=S

8.4.1[3ed]

Show a rule set’s rules

=M

8.4.2[3ed]

List all delivery agents

-d

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

/canon

8.5.1[3ed]

Canonify a host

/mx

8.5.2[3ed]

Look up MX records

/map

8.5.3[3ed]

Look up a database item

/tryflags

8.5.4[3ed]

Select whom to /parse or /try

/parse

8.5.5[3ed]

Parse an address

/try

8.5.6[3ed]

Try a delivery agent

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