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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sendmail problems Post 302414800 by zaxxon on Wednesday 21st of April 2010 04:07:36 AM
Old 04-21-2010
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1) where is it on my system?
Issue following:
Code:
which procmail
# if it does not return anything do
dpkg -l procmail| grep ^ii

If both does not return anything, you will have to install it. I guess Ubuntu uses apt or something like Debian. In that case:
Code:
apt-get install procmail

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2) do I need to invoke sendmail from the sendmail.mc file?
sendmail should be up and running - check for it's process with ps.

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3) you use a .forward file to invoke sendmail; where should my .forward file be located?
...
I created a .procmailrc file in /etc
I created a .forward file in /var/mail
Both .procmailrc and .forward have to be placed in the home directory of the user you are using.

Edit:
In case this named pipe stuff will still not work, you might want to explain us a bit more in detail, what you are going to do so we can suggest maybe a more appropriate solution.

Last edited by zaxxon; 04-21-2010 at 05:13 AM..
 

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mailstats(1)							   User Commands						      mailstats(1)

NAME
mailstats - print statistics collected by sendmail SYNOPSIS
mailstats [-o] [-c ] [-C configfile] [-f statisticsfile] [-p] [-P] DESCRIPTION
The mailstats utility prints out the statistics collected by the sendmail(1M) program on mailer usage. These statistics are collected if the file indicated by the StatusFile configuration option of sendmail (defined in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf) exists. The default statistics file is /etc/mail/statistics. To enable mailstats, you must, as root, touch /etc/mail/statistics. See the StatusFile processing option in sendmail(1M). mailstats first prints the time that the statistics file was created and the last time it was modified. Then, the statistics for each mailer are displayed on a single line, each with the following whitespace-separated fields: M The mailer number. msgsfr Number of messages from the mailer. bytes_from Kbytes from the mailer. msgsto Number of messages to the mailer. bytes_to Kbytes to the mailer. msgsrej Number of messages rejected by the mailer. msgsdis Number of messages discarded by the mailer. msgsqur Number of messages quarantined by the mailer. Mailer The name of the mailer. The display of statistics described above is followed by a separation line containing only equal sign (=) characters. After the separation line, a line preceded with a "T" and totaling the values for all of the mailers is displayed. This is followed by another line preceded with a "C" that lists the number of TCP connections. To reinitialize the statistics file once a night, add an entry to root's crontab(1): mailstats -p > /dev/null OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -c Try to use submit.cf instead of the default sendmail configuration file. -C configfile Specify a sendmail configuration file. -f statisticsfile Specify a sendmail statistics file. -o Do not display the name of the mailer in the output. -p Output information in program-readable mode and clear statistics. -P Output information in program-readable mode without clearing statistics. USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mailstats when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes). FILES
/dev/null Zero-lined file /etc/mail/statistics Default sendmail statistics file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf Default sendmail configuration file ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsndmu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Output Stability |Unstable | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
crontab(1), cron(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5) SunOS 5.10 24 Jun 2004 mailstats(1)
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