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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/mailq.8 | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/newaliases.8 | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/sendmail.8 | 52 |
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/mailq.8 b/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/mailq.8 index 03c17f24ff3..87890d28eb9 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/mailq.8 +++ b/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/mailq.8 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .Op Fl q... .Op Fl v .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm mailq +.Nm prints a summary of the mail messages queued for future delivery. It may only be run by the superuser. .Pp diff --git a/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/newaliases.8 b/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/newaliases.8 index 3bc64072766..f0d53f31826 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/newaliases.8 +++ b/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/newaliases.8 @@ -20,18 +20,18 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm newaliases .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Newaliases +.Nm rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file .Pa /etc/mail/aliases . It must be run each time this file is changed in order for the change to take effect. .Pp -.Nm Newaliases +.Nm is identical to .Dq Li "sendmail -bi" . .Pp The -.Nm newaliases +.Nm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. .Pp Notice: do @@ -54,6 +54,6 @@ The mail aliases file .Xr sendmail 8 .Sh HISTORY The -.Nm newaliases +.Nm command appeared in .Bx 4.0 . diff --git a/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/sendmail.8 b/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/sendmail.8 index a56c9183c61..b22f7cb65c2 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/sendmail.8 +++ b/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/sendmail.8 @@ -25,24 +25,24 @@ .Nm hoststat .Nm purgestat .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Sendmail +.Nm sends a message to one or more .Em recipients , routing the message over whatever networks are necessary. -.Nm Sendmail +.Nm does internetwork forwarding as necessary to deliver the message to the correct place. .Pp -.Nm Sendmail +.Nm is not intended as a user interface routine; other programs provide user-friendly front ends; -.Nm sendmail +.Nm is used only to deliver pre-formatted messages. .Pp With no flags, -.Nm sendmail +.Nm reads its standard input up to an end-of-file or a line consisting only of a single dot @@ -95,13 +95,13 @@ the ``From:'' and ``Sender:'' fields are examined for the name of the sender. .It Fl bd Run as a daemon. -.Nm Sendmail +.Nm will fork and run in the background listening on socket 25 for incoming .Tn SMTP connections. By default, -.Nm Sendmail +.Nm will also listen on socket 587 for RFC 2476 message submission. This is normally run from .Pa /etc/rc . @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Verify mode is normally used for validating users or mailing lists. .It Fl C Ns Ar file Use alternate configuration file. -.Nm Sendmail +.Nm gives up any enhanced (set-user-ID or set-group-ID) privileges if an alternate configuration file is specified. .It Fl D Ar logfile @@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ in the sendmail source distribution. The option .Fl d Ns Ar 0.1 prints the version of -.Nm sendmail +.Nm and the options it was compiled with. .br Most other categories are only useful with, and documented in, -.Nm sendmail 's +.Nm Ns 's source code. .It Fl F Ns Ar fullname Set the full name of the sender. @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ will be added to the message. Relay (gateway) submission of a message, e.g., when .Nm rmail calls -.Nm sendmail . +.Nm . .It Fl h Ns Ar N Set the hop count to .Ar N . @@ -252,6 +252,11 @@ for details. Set the name of the protocol used to receive the message. This can be a simple protocol name such as ``UUCP'' or a protocol and hostname, such as ``UUCP:ucbvax''. +.It Fl Q Op Ar reason +Quarantine a normal queue items with the given reason or +unquarantine quarantined queue items if no reason is given. +This should only be used with some sort of item matching using +as described above. .It Fl q Ns Bq Ar time Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals. If @@ -277,7 +282,7 @@ or .Ql \-q90m would both set the timeout to one hour thirty minutes. By default, -.Nm sendmail +.Nm will run in the background. This option can be used safely with .Fl bd . @@ -329,11 +334,6 @@ Limit processed jobs to those containing as a substring of the sender or not when .Em !\& is specified. -.It Fl Q Op Ar reason -Quarantine a normal queue items with the given reason or -unquarantine quarantined queue items if no reason is given. -This should only be used with some sort of item matching using -as described above. .It Fl R Ar return Set the amount of the message to be returned if the message bounces. @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ the rest of the name as a command to pipe the mail to. It may be necessary to quote the name to keep -.Nm sendmail +.Nm from suppressing the blanks from between arguments. For example, a common alias is: .Bd -literal -offset indent @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ msgs: "|/usr/bin/msgs -s" Aliases may also have the syntax .Dq :include: Ns Ar filename to ask -.Nm sendmail +.Nm to read the named file for a list of recipients. For example, an alias such as: .Bd -literal -offset indent @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ would read .Pa /usr/local/lib/poets.list for the list of addresses making up the group. .Pp -.Nm Sendmail +.Nm returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are defined in @@ -608,27 +608,27 @@ but was queued. .Pp If invoked as .Nm newaliases , -.Nm sendmail +.Nm will rebuild the alias database. If invoked as .Nm mailq , -.Nm sendmail +.Nm will print the contents of the mail queue. If invoked as .Nm hoststat , -.Nm sendmail +.Nm will print the persistent host status database. If invoked as .Nm purgestat , -.Nm sendmail +.Nm will purge expired entries from the persistent host status database. .Sh NOTES -.Nm sendmail +.Nm often gets blamed for many problems that are actually the result of other problems, such as overly permissive modes on directories. For this reason, -.Nm sendmail +.Nm checks the modes on system directories and files to determine if they can be trusted. Although these checks can be turned off |