Skip to Main Content
sendmail 8.13 Companion
book

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.
Content preview from sendmail 8.13 Companion

Useful Tables

There are three useful tables in this chapter.

Delivery Agents by Name

In Table 20-1, we list the standard and special delivery agents in alphabetical order, along with a convenient description of each.

Table 20-1. Delivery agents described by name

MAILER( )

Agents declared

Description

cyrus

cyrus and cyrusbb (20.4.1[3ed])

Deliver to a local cyrus user. Handles user+where@local.host syntax to the user’s IMAP V1 mailbox.

cyrusv2

cyrusv2 (20.4.2[3ed])

Somewhat like cyrus, but delivers using LMTP via a Unix-domain socket, and requires Cyrus V2.

none

discard (20.4.3[3ed])

Causes the message to be accepted and discarded.

none

error (20.4.4[3ed])

Causes the message to be rejected or quarantined (Section 11.1.2.6 [V8.13]).

fax

fax (20.4.5[3ed])

Delivers to a program that handles fax delivery.

none

*file* and *include* (20.4.6)[3ed]

Performs delivery by appending to a file and handles delivery through :include: lists.

local

local (20.4.7.1[3ed]), prog (20.4.7.2[3ed])

Performs final, local delivery, either to a user’s mailbox or through a program.

mail11

mail11 (20.4.8[3ed])

Allows use of the mail11 program for delivery to DECnet addresses.

phquery

ph (20.4.9[3ed])

Delivery is through the phquery program, which ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators

Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators

Dale Nielsen, Robert Haskins
Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Andy Lester, Chris Stone, Chuck Toporek, Jason McIntosh

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596008457Catalog PageErrata