This section provides a quick reference to the various Mail commands, files, and directories.
This list includes commands for using and managing the mail program.
| bugfiler | Stores bug reports in specific mail directories. |
| comsat | Notifies users of incoming mail (daemon). |
| mailq | Prints the contents of the mail queue. |
| mailstats | Displays statistics about mail traffic. |
| newaliases | Builds a new copy of the alias database from the /etc/aliases file. |
| rmail | Handles remote mail received through the uucp command of the Basic Networking Utilities (BNU). |
| sendbug | Mails a system bug report to a specific address. |
| sendmail | Routes mail for local or network delivery. |
| smdemon.cleanu | Cleans up the sendmail queue for periodic housekeeping. |
This list of files and directories is arranged by function.
| /usr/share/lib/Mail.rc | Sets local system defaults for all users of the mail program. A text file you can modify to set the default characteristics of the mail command. |
| $HOME/.mailrc | Enables the user to change the local system defaults for the mail program. |
| $HOME/mbox | Stores processed mail for the individual user. |
| /usr/bin/Mail, /usr/bin/mail, or /usr/bin/mailx |
Specifies three names linked to the same program. The mail program is one of the user interfaces to the mail system. |
| /var/spool/mail | Specifies the default mail drop directory. By default, all mail is delivered to the /var/spool/mail/UserName file. |
| /usr/bin/bellmail | Performs local mail delivery. |
| /usr/bin/rmail | Performs remote mail interface for BNU. |
| /var/spool/mqueue | Contains the log file and temporary files associated with the messages in the mail queue. |
| /usr/sbin/sendmail | The sendmail command. |
| /usr/ucb/mailq | Links to the /usr/sbin/sendmail. Using mailq is equivalent to using the /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp command. |
| /usr/ucb/newaliases | Links to the /usr/sbin/sendmail file. Using newaliases is equivalent to using the /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi command. |
| /etc/netsvc.conf | Specifies the ordering of certain name resolution services. |
| /usr/sbin/mailstats | Formats and prints the sendmail statistics as found in the /etc/sendmail.st file if it exists. The /etc/sendmail.st file is the default, but you can specify an alternative file. |
| /etc/aliases | Describes a text version of the aliases file for the sendmail command. You can edit this file to create, modify, or delete aliases for your system. |
| /etc/aliasesDB | Describes a directory containing the aliases database files, DB.dir and DB.pag, that are created from the /etc/aliases file when you run the sendmail -bi command. |
| /etc/aliasesDBl | Identifies a lock file for the aliasesDB database. |
| /etc/sendmail.cf | Contains the sendmail configuration information in text form. Edit the file to change this information. |
| /etc/sendmail.cfDB | Contains the processed version of the /etc/sendmail.cf configuration file. This file is created from the /etc/sendmail.cf file when you run the /usr/sbin/sendmail -bz command. |
| /etc/sendmail.cfDBl | Identifies a lock file for the /etc/sendmail.cfDB database. |
| /etc/sendmail.nl | Contains the sendmail National Language Support (NLS) configuration information in text form. Edit the file to change this information. |
| /etc/sendmail.nlDB | Contains the processed version of the /etc/sendmail.nl configuration file. This file is created from the /etc/sendmail.nl file when you run the /usr/sbin/sendmail -bn command. |
| /etc/sendmail.nlDBI | Identifies a lock file for the /etc/sendmail.nlDB database. |
| /usr/lib/smdemon.cleanu | Specifies a shell file that runs the mail queue and maintains the sendmail log files in the /var/spool/mqueue directory. |
| /etc/sendmail.st | Collects statistics about mail traffic. This file does not grow. Use the /usr/sbin/mailstats command to display the contents of this file. Delete this file if you do not want to collect this information. |
| /var/spool/mqueue | Describes a directory containing the temporary files associated with each message in the queue. The directory can contain the log file. |
| /var/spool/cron/crontabs | Describes a directory containing files that the cron daemon reads to determine which jobs to start. The root file contains a line to start the smdemon.cleanu shell script. |
| /usr/sbin/ imapd | The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) server process. |
| /usr/sbin/pop3d | The Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) server process. |