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HP-UX Mailing Services Administrator's Guide: HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2
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HP Part Number: 5991-6611

Published: July 2006

© Copyright 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.

Table of Contents

About This Document
New Documentation Changes in this Edition
Intended Audience
HP-UX Release Name and Release Identifier
Publishing History
What Is In This Document
Related Documentation
Typographical Conventions
HP Encourages Your Feedback
1 Mailing Services Overview
The elm Utility
How elm Works
The elm Configuration File
The mailx Utility
The mail/rmail Utility
The Sendmail Utility
Message Structure
How Sendmail Collects Messages
How Sendmail Routes Messages
How Sendmail Improves Mail Queue Performance
Default Client/Server Operation
How Sendmail Handles Errors
2 Configuring and Administering Sendmail
Configuring Sendmail
Configuring Sendmail on a Standalone System
Configuring Sendmail on a Mail Server
Configuring Sendmail on a Mail Client
Verifying your Sendmail Installation
Modifying the Default Sendmail Configuration File
The Sendmail Configuration File
Restarting Sendmail
Sendmail Configuration Options
Creating Sendmail Aliases
Adding Aliases to the Sendmail Alias Database
Verifying Your Sendmail Aliases
Managing Sendmail Aliases with NIS or NIS+
Rewriting the From Line on Outgoing Mail
Forwarding Your Own Mail with a .forward File
Creating Domain-Specific Aliasing Using Virtual Hosting
Sendmail and the LDAP Protocol
Enabling Address Lookups Using LDAP
LDAP-Based Routing
IPv6 Support
Security
Using the Sendmail Restricted Shell Program
Turning Off Standard Security Checks
Enabling SMTP Authentication Based on RFC 2554
Support for RFC 1413 (Identification Protocol)
Configuring Sendmail to Reject Unsolicited Mail
Enabling Anti-Spamming Security Features
Using the Access Database to Allow or Reject Mail Messages
Enabling Anti-Spamming Relay Features
Validating Senders
Checking Headers
Spam Control Using the Message Submission Agent (RFC 2476)
Sendmail Validation
Turning Off Virtual Interfaces
Troubleshooting Sendmail
Keeping the Aliases Database Up to Date
Verifying Address Resolution and Aliasing
Verifying Message Delivery
Contacting the Sendmail Daemon to Verify Connectivity
Setting Your Domain Name
Attempting to Start Multiple Sendmail Daemons
Configuring and Reading the Sendmail Log
Printing and Reading the Mail Queue
Queue Changes
Changes to Sendmail Files and Databases
3 Sendmail 8.13.3
Overview
New Features in Sendmail 8.13.3
LDAP Enhancements to Support Recursion and LDAP URL Support
Support for the FallBackSmartHost Option
Socket Maps
DNS Maps
Support for Deliver By SMTP Extension (RFC 2852)
Anti-Spamming Features
Queuing
Performance Features
Sendmail 8.13.3 Security
New Menu Options in the gen_cf Script
Index

List of Figures

1-1 Flow of Mail Through Sendmail
1-2 Sendmail Client-Server Operation

List of Tables

1 HP-UX 11i Releases
2 Publishing History Details
3 Document Organization
1-1 MTA and MUAs Supported on HP-UX 11i v2
1-2 Time Zones Supported by mailx
1-3 How Sendmail Resolves Addresses with Mixed Operators
2-1 Mailing List Options
2-2 Option Values for DontBlameSendmail
2-3 Access Database Format
2-4 Access Database Text File Example
2-5 Sendmail Logging Levels
2-6 Lines in Queue-Control Files
3-1 Supported DNS Queries
3-2 The dns Database-Map Type K Command Switches
3-3 Q Configuration Command Equates
   


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