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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check mail queue Post 302932632 by Don Cragun on Friday 23rd of January 2015 01:24:52 AM

01-23-2015

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Originally Posted by ust3

thanks reply ,

would you please ignore the probability of server failure .

thanks

You are completely missing the point!

If mail is stuck on your server, you can't send mail to anyone saying that mail is stuck because the mail message saying the mail is stuck will also be stuck.

The entire point of this thread is that your mail server is failing to deliver mail messages. If we ignore that there is a possible server failure, there is no need to send a message saying there has been a failure since you want to ignore what has happened.

If we don't ignore that your mail server has failed, you have to use some mechanism other than mail to deliver that notification.

As an example, if your car runs out of gas, you can't drive that car to a gas station to get more gas. You can call AAA to deliver gas to you; you can walk to a gas station, buy a gas can, fill the can with gas, walk back to your car, and put the gas you bought into you car; you can abandon your car and start using a bicycle to get around; or you can get around several other ways.

But, until you fix your mail server failure, you can't send mail to anyone saying that you have a mail server failure.

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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)

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