man sensible-mda (Administration système) - a generic local MDA router for Debian systems
NAME
sensible-mda - a generic local MDA router 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) , or other MTAs for use on Debian systems. With sensible-mda, sendmail can support a plethora of MDAs (procmail, maildrop, 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 (Or first found MDA, if run w/euid=root): procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(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)
SEE ALSO
BUGS
None known so far.
AUTHOR
Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>