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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Why older administrators prefer sendmail ? Post 302516621 by Corona688 on Sunday 24th of April 2011 02:09:49 PM

04-24-2011

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First and most obviously, these are the UNIX forums, and Exchange is a Windows product.

The UNIX philosophy is that programs should do one thing and do it well. A mail server should be a mail server -- not a bloated all-singing all-dancing time management monstrosity. Go down that path too far and you get Lotus Notes, a mail program so baroque that nobody can tell you what it actually does in full, or why, without beginning to drool and twitch.

There's a lot of good reasons to not want to use Microsoft products, besides. The upgrade treadmill is one. The ridiculous prices are another, even as we watch licenses grow more and more expensive plus less and less useful. The long history of legendary security goofs, and continuing security issues even now, is a third.

As an aside, vanilla sendmail is pretty obsolete now. There's other compatible options like postfix.

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praliases

praliases(1)							   User Commands						      praliases(1)

NAME

       praliases - display system mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

       praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key]

DESCRIPTION

       The  praliases  utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in
       no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate  key:value  is  displayed	if
       found.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -C configfile   Specifies a sendmail configuration file.

       -f aliasfile    Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       key	       A specific alias key to look up.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful operation.

       >0	An error occurred.

FILES

       /etc/mail/aliases	       Default sendmail system aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.db	       Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.dir	       Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file
       /etc/mail/aliases.pag

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf	       Default sendmail configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    29 Mar 2004 						      praliases(1)