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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Does Mailx store the mails sent Post 302072681 by munira_johar on Friday 5th of May 2006 05:53:23 AM
Old 05-05-2006
Hi,

Thanks for your help. i did find a file named maillog in /var/adm which contains all the mails sent by the unix server for a day.

The maillog has records like this-
May 5 08:30:41 nus220 sendmail[29817]: k44MUbM29801: to=miamikool@otherplace.com, ctladdr=kndsep (40105/40025), delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=relay, pri=121651, relay=cdn-mail.somewhere.com.au. [10.10.138.138], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (IAA03690 Message accepted for delivery)

Does the last part stat=Sent (IAA03690 Message accepted for delivery) mean that the msg has gone successfully?

Also i tried the command /usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null as suggested and got the following output:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.11.6+Sun
Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS
QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB XDEBUG

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = nus220
(canonical domain name) $j = nus220.in.somewhere.com.au
(subdomain name) $m = somewhere.com.au
(node name) $k = nus220
========================================================

ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
----------------------------------------------------------------------

i dont really understand what it means? could you help me with this?

Also i would like to know how does mailx work internally? as in does it store the mails in a buffer before sending it? and what happens if the mail is not sent? where does that mail go if it was not sent successfully?

Thanks for the help in advance.

Last edited by RTM; 05-05-2006 at 08:33 AM..
 

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mailstats(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      mailstats(8)

NAME
mailstats - Displays statistics about mail traffic SYNOPSIS
mailstats [-o] [-C cffile [-f stfile] FLAGS
Do not display the name of the mailer in the output. Use cffile as the name of the sendmail "cf" file instead of /var/adm/sendmail/send- mail.cf. Use stfile as the input statistics file instead of /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st. DESCRIPTION
The mailstats command reads the information in the /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st file (or in the file specified with the -f flag), formats it, and writes it to standard output. Note also that you can change the location of the sendmail.st file by editing its pathname in the sendmail.cf file. EXAMPLES
The format of the information is shown in the following example, in which the first field (M) contains a number that indicates the position of that mailer in the sendmail.cf file, starting at 0 (zero). For example, the first mailer in the sendmail.cf file corresponds to the number 0 in the mailstats display, the second mailer corresponds to the number 1, and so on. Statistics from Thu Feb 17 11:20:01 2000 M msgsfr bytes_from msgsto bytes_to msgsrej msgsdis Mailer 1 50 77K 1 3K 0 0 local 6 43 59K 58 99K 0 0 smtp ============================================================ T 93 136K 59 102K 0 0 The fields in the report have the following meanings: Indicates the position of the mailer in the sendmail.cf file. Indicates the number of messages received by the local machine from the indicated mailer. Indicates the number of bytes in the messages received by the local machine from the indicated mailer. Indicates the number of messages sent from the local machine using the indicated mailer. Indicates the number of bytes in the messages sent from the local machine using the indicated mailer. Indicates the number of rejected messages. Indicates the number of discarded messages. Indicates the name of the mailer. If sendmail transmits mail directly to a file, such as the dead.letter file or an alias target, the message and byte counts are credited to the prog mailer, as defined in the sendmail.cf file. However, mailstats will still default to var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st. FILES
Specifies the command path Contains system statistics Contains configuration information for sendmail RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: sendmail(8) delim off mailstats(8)
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