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On a PMDF system, a PMDF image is activated in place of
sendmail
; if you use a mail user agent that sends through
sendmail
, or if you invoke sendmail
from the
command line yourself, you will actually be running a PMDF image.
PMDF's sendmail
replacement is designed for compatibility
with mail user agent applications. However, it is not intended to be
100% compatible with sendmail
when it comes to command
line options for use by human users in submitting messages or
management activities. PMDF's design has some fundamental differences
from sendmail
's design; PMDF as a whole provides a safer
implementation of all sendmail
's functionality, plus a
great many additional capabilities. Not all sendmail
command line options make sense for PMDF's sendmail
replacement; the underlying functionality may be provided by PMDF in a
way other than sendmail
options.
Instead, for submitting messages from the command shell, see the
pmdf send
utility. For checking on any messages you
have sent that are still in the PMDF queues, see the pmdf qm
utility. Or for management activities such as testing address
rewriting and general queue management, see the PMDF System Manager's Guide.
The command line options recognized by PMDF's sendmail
replacement are shown in Table 1-3.
Option | Usage |
---|---|
-help
|
Help; gives list of options supported |
-h
|
Synonym for
-help
|
-t
|
Use headers for envelope addresses |
-odq
|
Enqueue only, with priority set to nonurgent |
-oee
|
No error status returned to shell |
-f
user
|
Set From: address to
user. In general, must be superuser, or in the
pmdf_world group, to set
user to other than one's own username, though users in the
pmdf_world_
username
group are also allowed to specify
-f=
username
.
|
-bs
|
SMTP dialog to
stdin /
stdout --- all other options ignored
|
-oi
|
Line containing single dot (.) does not terminate message |
-i
|
Synonym for
-oi
|
-r
user
|
Synonym for
-f
user
|
--
|
Any command line arguments after this option are ignored. |
The following are always set when sending a message | |
-oem
|
Mail error message back to user |
-om
|
The sender address will not be stricken, if present, from the recipient list during alias expansion |
-m
|
Synonym for
-om
|
-odb
|
Background delivery (asynchronous) |
The following are ignored without error messages | |
-v
|
Set verbose mode |
-oo
|
Old header format (with spaces instead of commas between addresses) |
-odi
|
Interactive delivery |
The following are not applicable, and generate an error | |
-bd
|
Start SMTP server |
-bm
|
Deliver mail |
-bp
|
Print mail queue information |
-bt
|
Test configuration |
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