Chapter 5. Build and Use Companion Programs

The sendmail distribution comes complete with several programs that can help you use sendmail . All are in source form, and all are built with the Build script (Section 5.1). We list them briefly in Table 5-1, then describe each in the sections that follow.

Table 5-1. Companion programs supplied with sendmail

Program	§	Description
Build	Section 5.1	The script used to build all programs
editmap	Section 5.2	A program to edit database entries
mail.local	Section 5.3	A local delivery agent that can speak LMTP
mailstats	Section 5.4	A program to print the statistics file
makemap	Section 5.5	A program for creating database files
praliases	Section 5.6	A program to dump the aliases file
rmail	Section 5.7	A new rmail program for use with UUCP
smrsh	Section 5.8	A shell that restricts program usage
vacation	Section 5.9	A program for notifying others you are unavailable