NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Among the various situations that are checked for are:

o

Addresses it cannot understand (an example of this was found on the very first run; we had an entry in the alias file of the form ``alias::address'' rather than ``alias:address''),

o

Included files that don't exist any more (an example was seen as another obsolete alias, where the entry remained in the aliases file, but the actual included file had long since been deleted),

o

Included files that aren't currently readable by the program,

o

Included files that have non-address entries in them,

o

Files destined as archives that either don't exist, or are in a mode that prohibits sendmail from successfully saving the message (this is probably one of the biggest hassles of the entire system),

o

Pipes to non-existent programs, or programs that aren't listed as being executable (this is more of a warning then an actual environment error as sendmail seems blissfully unaware of any potential problems),

o

Bad individual addresses (typographical errors, accounts deleted, etc.),

o

Users' mailboxes with wrong ownership or wrong permissions,

o

Aliases that occur more than once in the alias file,

o

If the ``-f'' option is given, addresses in a user's ``.forward'' file that cannot be locally delivered,

o

If the ``-f'' option is given, specific ``.forward'' files that aren't owned by the right user, have the wrong permissions, empty ``.forward'' files, or those with inappropriate entries. To report its findings, the program defaults to simply listing errors to standard output, but usage of the ``-m mail-address'' option will result in electronic mail being sent to the specified address.

FILES

/etc/aliases

Default sendmail alias file

/var/mail

Delivered mail spooled for users

~user/.forward

Optional forwarding aliases for users

AUTHORS

SEE ALSO

Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

FILES

AUTHORS

SEE ALSO