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<TITLE>Testing the sendmail.cf file</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node245.html">Putting it all together </A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node241.html">Installing sendmail</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node243.html">Building sendmail.cf</A>
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<BR> <P>
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<H2><A NAME="SECTION0017530000">Testing the sendmail.cf file</A></H2>
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<A NAME="8455"></A>
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To put sendmail into `test' mode, you invoke it with the -bt
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flag. The default configuration file is the sendmail.cf file that is
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installed on the system. You can test an alternate file by using the
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-Cfilename option.
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<P>
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In the following examples, we test vstout.cf, the configuration
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file generated from the vstout.m4 file shown in
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figure-<A HREF="node222.html#sendmailfigm4"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="cross_ref_motif.gif"></A>.
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<P><P>
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The following tests ensure that sendmail is able to deliver all
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mail to users on your system. In all cases the result of the test
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should be the same and point to the local system name with the
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LOCAL mailer.
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<P>
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First test how a mail to a local user would be delivered.
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The output shows how sendmail processes the address internally.
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It is handed to various rule-sets which analyze it, invoke other
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rule-sets in turn, and break it up into its components.
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In our example, we passed the address me to rule-sets 3 and 0
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(this is the meaning of the 3,0 entered before the address).
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The last line shows the parsed address as returned by rules-et 0,
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containing the mailer the message would be delivered by, and the host
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and user name given to the mailer.
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<P>
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Next, test mail to a user on your system with UUCP syntax.
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Next, test mail addressed to a user on your system with Internet syntax
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to your fully qualified hostname.
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You should repeat the above two tests with each of the names you
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specified in the PSEUDONYMS and DEFAULT_NAME
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parameters in your sendmail.m4 file.
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Lastly, test that you can mail to your relay host.
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<P><P><BR> <HR>
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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