The sendmail program plays a variety of roles, all critical to the proper flow of electronic mail. It listens to the network for incoming mail, transports mail messages to other machines, and hands local mail to a local program for local delivery. It can append mail to files and pipe mail through other programs. It can queue mail for later delivery and understand the aliasing of one recipient name to another.
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