sendmail, 4th Edition

Chapter 10. Build and Use Companion Programs

The sendmail distribution comes complete with several programs that can help you use sendmail. All are in source form, and all are built with the Build script (The Build Script on page 346). We list them briefly in Table 10-1, and then describe each in the sections that follow.

Table 10-1. Companion programs supplied with sendmail

Program	§	Description
Build	The Build Script on page 346	The script used to build all programs
editmap	The editmap Program on page 354	A program to edit database entries
mail.local	The mail.local Delivery Agent on page 359	A local delivery agent that can speak LMTP
mailstats	The mailstats Program on page 364	A program to print the statistics file
makemap	The makemap Program on page 370	A program for creating database files
praliases	The praliases Program on page 376	A program to dump the aliases file
rmail	The rmail Delivery Agent on page 378	A new rmail program for use with UUCP
smrsh	The smrsh Program on page 379	A shell that restricts program usage
vacation	The vacation Program on page 382	A program for notifying others that you are unavailable