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-rw-r--r--gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/mailq.82
-rw-r--r--gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/newaliases.88
-rw-r--r--gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/sendmail.852
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