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mailsetup(8)
NAME
  mailsetup - Configures the host's mail system

SYNOPSIS
  /usr/sbin/mailsetup [-f file]

FLAGS
  -f file
      Specifies the name of the resulting configuration file.

DESCRIPTION
  The mailsetup command sets up the mail system on your host. You can use
  this command to do a quick setup where defaults are used or to do a more
  extensive setup.

  Before you run mailsetup your machine needs a local domain name and it
  should be established on a local area network (LAN).	If you have not run
  bindsetup you will be asked for the BIND domain name for your local area
  network.  For a quick setup, the only additional information you will be
  asked for is the name of the mail relay you will be using and which users
  are considered local.	 On the more extensive setup you will also be asked
  for UUCP, DECnet, and UMC configuration information, aliases for your
  machine, local address formats and other domain information.

  You must run the mailsetup command as superuser and with the system in
  multiuser mode.

  When you run mailsetup a menu is displayed giving you a choice of
  responses.  You are then prompted for further information.

  If you do not use the -f flag, before mailsetup exits it asks if you wish
  to restart your mail with this new configuration.  If you answer no, your
  configuration file is saved in /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.tmp and will
  abort the install.  If you answer yes, your /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf
  in /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.orig, if no file by this name exists.  If
  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.orig exists, /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf is
  moved to /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.n, where n is the version number (0
  to 6 where 0 is the most recent).  The new configuration file is then moved
  to /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf and sendmail is restarted.

  If you use the -f flag, the configuration file is saved with the file name
  specified and sendmail is not restarted.

  The mailsetup script produces the following three files in
  /var/adm/sendmail:

    ·  sendmail.m4

    ·  hostname.m4

    ·  Makefile.cf.hostname

  You can fine tune your configuration by modifying the hostname.m4 and
  issuing a make -f Makefile.cf.hostname command, which produces a
  hostname.cf file. you can then copy the hostname.cf file to sendmail.cf and
  restart sendmail using the /sbin/init.d/sendmail restart command.

  Running mailsetup


  To use the mailsetup script to set up your mail system, log in as root and
  complete the following steps:

   1.  Invoke the mailsetup script.

   2.  If you are not running BIND, the mailsetup script asks if you want to
       run it.	If you answer yes, the mailsetup script calls the bindsetup
       script.	For more information on bindsetup, see bindsetup(8).

   3.  The mailsetup script then asks whether you want to do a quick setup.
       If you answer yes, the mailsetup script prompts you for the following
       information:

	 ·
	 The name of the general-purpose relay

	 ·
	 If you want to modify the list of aliases and users that are
	 considered local

	 ·
	 If you want to complete the mail setup

       To do an advanced mail setup, answer no.	 The mailsetup script prompts
       you for the information you collected on the worksheet.

   4.  When you finish providing the information, the mailsetup script asks
       you if you want to complete the configuration.  If you answer yes, the
       script moves the new sendmail.cf file to the system space, saves the
       old sendmail.cf file, and restarts sendmail.  If you answer no, the
       script moves the new sendmail.cf file to
       /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.tmp and exits.

FILES
  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf
	     Specifies the sendmail configuration file.

  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.pd
	     Specifies the mail setup product description for the
	     configuration file.

  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.{0-6}
	     Specifies the backup configuration files.

  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf.orig
	     Specifies the Original configuration file.

  /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.m4
	     Specifies the configuration file produced by mailsetup.

  /var/adm/sendmail/hostname.m4
	     Specifies the user configurable file produced by mailsetup.

  /var/adm/sendmail/Makefile.cf.hostname
	     Specifies the Makefile file produced by *Lmailsetup and used to
	     make a hostname.cf file from the sendmail.cf and hostname.m4
	     files.



RELATED INFORMATION
  m4(1), mail_intro(7), bindsetup(8), netsetup(8), sendmail(8)

  Network Administration