sendmail 8.13 Companion

Useful Tables

There are three useful tables in this chapter.

• Table 20-1 lists all the delivery agents by name (Section 20.2.1 ^[V8.13]).

• Table 20-2 lists all the delivery agent equates (Section 20.2.2 ^[V8.13]).

• Table 20-3 lists all the delivery agent F= flags (Section 20.2.3 ^[V8.13]).

Delivery Agents by Name

In Table 20-1, we list the standard and special delivery agents in alphabetical order, along with a convenient description of each.

Table 20-1. Delivery agents described by name

MAILER( )	Agents declared	Description
cyrus	cyrus and cyrusbb (20.4.1[3ed])	Deliver to a local cyrus user. Handles [e-mail] syntax to the user’s IMAP V1 mailbox.
cyrusv2	cyrusv2 (20.4.2[3ed])	Somewhat like cyrus, but delivers using LMTP via a Unix-domain socket, and requires Cyrus V2.
none	discard (20.4.3[3ed])	Causes the message to be accepted and discarded.
none	error (20.4.4[3ed])	Causes the message to be rejected or quarantined (Section 11.1.2.6 [V8.13]).
fax	fax (20.4.5[3ed])	Delivers to a program that handles fax delivery.
none	*file* and *include* (20.4.6)[3ed]	Performs delivery by appending to a file and handles delivery through :include: lists.
local	local (20.4.7.1[3ed]), prog (20.4.7.2[3ed])	Performs final, local delivery, either to a user’s mailbox or through a program.
mail11	mail11 (20.4.8[3ed])	Allows use of the mail11 program for delivery to DECnet addresses.
phquery	ph (20.4.9[3ed])	Delivery is through the phquery program, which ...