SENDMAILCONFIG

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: October 21 1999
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NAME

sensible-mda - a generic sendmail local MDA for Debian systems

SYNOPSIS

sensible-mda from to detail client-addr

DESCRIPTION

sensible-mda is used to simplify the installation and configuration of sendmail(8) for use on Debian systems. With sensible-mda, sendmail can support a plethora of MDAs (procmail, deliver, etc.) without having pick any one of them as required.

FUNCTION

sensible-mda is called by sendmail as a local mailer when the following exists in sendmail.mc:
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `sensible-mda $g $u $h ${client_addr}')dnl

sensible-mda will look for the following MDAs (in this order), and pass the mail on to the first SUID MDA found: procmail(1), deliver(8)

OPTIONS

Available command line options are the following:

from: The sender of this email (sendmail $g variable)
to: The recipient of this email (sendmail $u variable)
detail: The detail portion of the recipient userid (sendmail $h variable) - ie:
cowboy+sendmail@debian.org
client-addr: TCP/IP address of the sender (sendmail ${client_addr} variable) Not used (for the nonce)

FILES

/etc/mail/sendmail.mc: sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: actual sendmail configuration file (treated as a binary file)

BUGS

None known so far.

AUTHOR

Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>

HISTORY

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