sendmail 8.13 Companion

A Useful Table

Beginning with V8.7 sendmail, rule-testing mode offers 13 simple commands that will help you understand your configuration file. They are listed in Table 8-1.

Table 8-1. Available -bt commands

Command	sendmail text reference	Description
.D	8.2.1[3ed]	Give a macro a value
.C	8.2.2[3ed]	Add a value to a class
=S	8.4.1[3ed]	Show a rule set’s rules
=M	8.4.2[3ed]	List all delivery agents
-d	16.1[3ed]	Turn debugging on or off
$	8.3.1[3ed]	Show a macro’s value
$=	8.3.2[3ed]	List a class’s contents
/canon	8.5.1[3ed]	Canonify a host
/mx	8.5.2[3ed]	Look up MX records
/map	8.5.3[3ed]	Look up a database item
/tryflags	8.5.4[3ed]	Select whom to /parse or /try
/parse	8.5.5[3ed]	Parse an address
/try	8.5.6[3ed]	Try a delivery agent