MTA Basic operations

Please inform any corrections.

bulk_mailer-1.11

Concurrency control	-maxdomains 20 (unit for job splitting)
Message submission	bulk_mailer SDR RCPT-file

Other parameters depend on configuration of sendmail, since bulk_mailer dispatches messages with 'sendmail -bs'

exim-2.053

Daemon start	exim -bd -q1h
Daemon termination	kill -TERM `cat /var/run/exim.pid`
Daemon is for	receive, queue management
Concurrency control	remote_max_parallel = in /usr/local/etc/exim/configure
Message submission	exim -f SDR RCPT
Logging	/var/log/exim_mainlog
Outgoing queue	/var/spool/exim/input/*
Listing of queued messages	exim -bp
Force queue processing	exim -q
Location of aliases	/etc/aliases
Reconstruction of alias db	not required

postfix beta-19990122-pl01

Daemon start	/usr/local/postfix/bin/postfix start
Daemon termination	/usr/local/postfix/bin/postfix stop
Daemon is for	receive, send, queue management
Concurrency control	'smtp' line in /etc/postfix/master.cf
Message submission	/usr/local/postfix/bin/sendmail -f SDR RCPT
Logging	/var/log/maillog (syslog)
Outgoing queue	/var/spool/postfix/deferred/*
Listing of queued messages	/usr/local/postfix/bin/sendmail -bp
Force queue processing	/usr/local/postfix/bin/sendmail -q
Location of aliases	/etc/aliases (see /etc/postfix/main.cf)
Reconstruction of alias db	/usr/local/postfix/bin/postalias

Configurations can be seen with /usr/local/postfix/bin/postconf

qmail-1.03

Daemon start	/var/qmail/boot/home
Daemon termination	kill -TERM 'PID of qmail-send'
Daemon is for	receive, send, queue management (qmail-smtpd required for receiving)
Concurrency control	just numerics in /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote
Message submission	/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -fSND RCPT
Logging	/var/log/maillog (via syslog)
Outgoing queue	/var/qmail/queue/remote/*
Listing of queued messages	/var/qmail/bin/sendmail -bp ; /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
Force queue processing	kill -ALRM 'PID of qmail-send'
Location of aliases	var/qmail/alias/.qmail-*
Reconstruction of alias db	not required (without fastforward)

sendmail-8.9.3

Daemon start	/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
Daemon termination	kill -TERM `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
Daemon is for	receive, queue management (not for send)
Concurrency control
Message submission	/usr/sbin/sendmail -fSDR RCPT
Logging	/var/log/maillog (syslog)
Outgoing queue	/var/spool/mqueue/
Listing of queued messages	/usr/sbin/sendmail -bp ; mailq
Force queue processing	/usr/sbin/sendmail -q
Location of aliases	/etc/aliases (see /etc/sendmail.cf)
Reconstruction of alias db	/usr/sbin/sendmail -bi ; newaliases

Smail-3.2.0.101

Daemon start	smail -bd -q1h
Daemon termination	kill -TERM 'PID of smail'
Daemon is for	receive, queue operation (not for send)
Concurrency control
Message submission	smail -fSDR RCPT
Logging	/var/log/smail/logfile
Outgoing queue	/var/spool/smail/input/*
Listing of queued messages	smail -bp ; mailq
Force queue processing	smail -q ; runq
Location of aliases	/etc/aliases
Reconstruction of alias db	mkaliases

SMTPfeed-0.95

Concurrency control	-n NUM
Logging	/var/log/local5 (via syslog)

See table of 'sendmail' for other items, since an SMTP outgoing mailer for sendmail.

zmailer-2.99.50s11

Daemon start	zmailer
Daemon termination	zmailer stop
Daemon is for	receive, send, queue management
Concurrency control	maxchannel of smtp/* in /usr/local/zmailer/scheduler.conf
Message submission	/usr/local/zmailer/bin/sendmail -f SDR RCPT
Logging	/var/log/mail/smtp
Outgoing queue	/var/spool/postoffice/queue/*
Listing of queued messages	/usr/local/zmailer/bin/mailq
Force queue processing	zmailer resubmit
Location of aliases	/usr/local/zmailer/db/aliases (:include: must be quoted with "")
Reconstruction of alias db	/usr/local/zmailer/bin/newaliases