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11..How to make copy of the all mails from mydomain.com  received by   user1 ?

 vi /etc/mail/virtusertable          @mydomain.com           user1

:wq!

 # service sendmail restart

 12..How to make copy of the all mails from mydomain.com  received by   user1 ?

 vi /etc/mail/virtusertable          @mydomain.com           user1

 :wq!

 # service sendmail restart

13.. How to manage the mail spool?

Mail is queued in the /var/spool/mqueue directory before beingtransmitted. This

directory is called the mail spool. The sendmail program provides the mailq command as a means of displayinga formatted list of all spooled mail messages and their status. The /usr/bin/mailq command is a symbolic link to the sendmail executable and behaves identically to:

# sendmail –bp

14.. What is  mail Statistics?

sendmail collects data on the volume of mail traffic and some information on the

hosts to which it has delivered mail. There are two commands available to display this information, mailstats and hoststat.

15..What is the use of mailstats command?

The mailstats command displays statistics on the volume of mail processed by sendmail.