Chapter 5. Companion Programs
The sendmail
distribution comes complete with
several companion programs that can help you use
sendmail
.
What’s New with V8.13
Beginning with V8.13, sendmail
offers expanded
output for one program and new command-line switches for a couple of
others:
A new
mailstats
display (Section 5.1.1[V8.13]) includes a count of quarantined messages.A new
makemap
-D
command-line switch (Section 5.1.2[V8.13]) allows you to define an alternative to#
as a comment character.A new
vacation
-j
command-line switch (Section 5.1.3 [V8.13]) allowsvacation
to respond to messages, even if a user’s name does not appear in aTo
: orCc
: header.A new
vacation
-R
command-line switch (Section 5.1.4 [V8.13]) allows you to redefine the envelope-sender address from<>
to one of your own choice.
A New mailstats Display
As of V8.13, sendmail can
quarantine messages based on the sender
address so that they may be reviewed before being sent (Section 11.1.2
[V8.13]). The
sendmail
program keeps track of the number of
messages quarantined by updating the information in
the
statistics
file
(24.9.106[3ed]), while the
mailstats program
(5.4[3ed]) summarizes that information.
Prior to V8.13, the output produced by mailstats
ended with the column that displayed the number of discarded messages
(the msgsdis
column). Beginning with V8.13, a new
rightmost column has been added (called msgsqur
)
that shows the number of messages that have been quarantined:
# mailstats
Statistics from Sun Apr 6 ...
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