Administering Mail and Messaging

Administering Mail and Messaging
        The message transport agent
        Mail user agents
        Message store
        The Mail Manager
                Default configuration
        Managing aliases
        Managing domains
                Masquerading or domain hiding
                Domain tables
                sendmail.cf implementation of the domain table
                Domain table format
                Configuring INBOX locations
        Managing mail channels
                The default channels
                The UUCP channel
                The baduser channel
                The badhost channel
                sendmail.cf implementation of mail channels
                Channel tables
                        Look in name service
                        Match UUCP configuration
                        Match local users
                        Match non-local users
                        Match unknown users
                        File lookup
                Channel delivery
        Managing virtual domains
                How virtual domains work
                Enabling virtual domains
                Warnings for users in virtual domains
                Managing aliases in virtual domains
        Managing spam
                Blocking spam email from known offenders
                Blocking spam email using the MAPS Realtime Blackhole List
                Prevention of forged-spam email via sendmail (relay disable)
                Email spam detection method for ISPs

Sendmail Operation Guide
        Basic installation
                Compiling sendmail
                        Modifying the makefile
                        Compilation and installation
                Configuration files
                Details of installation files
        Normal operations
                The system log
                Dumping state
                The mail queue
                        Printing the queue
                        Forcing the queue
                Disk-based connection information
                The service switch
                The alias database
                        Rebuilding the alias database
                        Potential problems
                        List owners
                User information database
                Per-user forwarding (.forward files)
                Special header lines
                IDENT protocol support
        Arguments
                Queue interval
                Daemon mode
                Forcing the queue
                Debugging
                Changing the values of options
                Trying a different configuration file
                Logging traffic
                Testing configuration files
                Persistent host status information
        Tuning
                Timeouts
                        Queue interval
                        Read timeouts
                        Message timeouts
                Forking during queue runs
                Queue priorities
                Load limiting
                Delivery mode
                Log level
                File modes
                        setuid status
                Connection caching
                Name server access
                Moving the per-user forward files
                Free space
                Maximum message size
                Privacy flags
                Send to me too
        The configuration file
                R and S: rewriting rules
                        The left hand side
                        The right hand side
                        Semantics of rewriting rule sets
                        Ruleset hooks
                        IPC mailers
                D: define macro
                C and F: define classes
                M: define mailer
                H: define header
                O: set option
                P: precedence definitions
                V: configuration version level
                K: key file declaration
                The user database
                        Structure of the user database
                        User database semantics
                        Creating the database
        Other configuration
                Parameters in BuildTools/OS/$oscf
                Parameters in src/conf.h
                Configuration in src/conf.c
                        Built-in header semantics
                        Restricting use of email
                        Load average computation
                        New database map classes
                        Queueing function
                        Refusing incoming SMTP connections
                Configuration in src/daemon.c
        Queue file formats
        Summary of support files