MTA Basic operation

Please inform any corrections.

exim-2.053

 
Daemon start exim -bd -q1h
Daemon termination kill -TERM `cat /var/run/exim.pid`
Daemon is for receive, queue management
Concurrency control remote_max_parallel = in /usr/local/etc/exim/configure
Message submission exim -f SDR RCPT
Logging /var/log/exim_mainlog
Outgoing queue /var/spool/exim/input/*
Listing of queued messages exim -bp
Force queue processing exim -q
Location of aliases /etc/aliases
Reconstruction of alias db not required

postfix beta-19990122-pl01

 
Daemon start /usr/local/postfix/bin/postfix start
Daemon termination /usr/local/postfix/bin/postfix stop
Daemon is for receive, send, queue management
Concurrency control 'smtp' line in /etc/postfix/master.cf 
Message submission /usr/local/postfix/bin/sendmail -f SDR RCPT
Logging /var/log/maillog (syslog)
Outgoing queue /var/spool/postfix/deferred/*
Listing of queued messages /usr/local/postfix/bin/sendmail -bp
Force queue processing /usr/local/postfix/bin/sendmail -q
Location of aliases /etc/aliases (see /etc/postfix/main.cf)
Reconstruction of alias db /usr/local/postfix/bin/postalias
Configurations can be seen with /usr/local/postfix/bin/postconf

qmail-1.03

 
Daemon start /var/qmail/boot/home
Daemon termination kill -TERM 'PID of qmail-send'
Daemon is for receive, send, queue management (qmail-smtpd required for receiving)
Concurrency control just numerics in /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote
Message submission /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -fSND RCPT
Logging /var/log/maillog (via syslog)
Outgoing queue /var/qmail/queue/remote/*
Listing of queued messages /var/qmail/bin/sendmail -bp ; /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
Force queue processing kill -ALRM 'PID of qmail-send'
Location of aliases var/qmail/alias/.qmail-*
Reconstruction of alias db not required (without fastforward)

sendmail-8.9.3

 
Daemon start /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
Daemon termination kill -TERM `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
Daemon is for receive, queue management (not for send)
Concurrency control
Message submission /usr/sbin/sendmail -fSDR RCPT
Logging /var/log/maillog (syslog)
Outgoing queue /var/spool/mqueue/
Listing of queued messages /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp ; mailq
Force queue processing /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
Location of aliases /etc/aliases (see /etc/sendmail.cf)
Reconstruction of alias db /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi ; newaliases

zmailer-2.99.50s11

 
Daemon start zmailer
Daemon termination zmailer stop
Daemon is for receive, send, queue management
Concurrency control maxchannel of smtp/* in /usr/local/zmailer/scheduler.conf
Message submission /usr/local/zmailer/bin/sendmail -f SDR RCPT
Logging /var/log/mail/smtp
Outgoing queue /var/spool/postoffice/queue/*
Listing of queued messages /usr/local/zmailer/bin/mailq
Force queue processing zmailer resubmit
Location of aliases /usr/local/zmailer/db/aliases (:include: must be quoted with "")
Reconstruction of alias db /usr/local/zmailer/bin/newaliases


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