Note that only the
leading 5 is changed, not the entire SMTP value.
The SoftBounce option is not safe. If specified from the command line, it can cause sendmail
to relinquish its special privileges.
24.9.116 StatusFile
Specify statistics file All versions
At busy and complex mail sites, many different delivery agents are active. For example, one
kind of mail might be routed over the Internet using the TCP delivery agent, while another
might be routed via the UUCP suite of programs, and yet another might be routed over a
DS3 link to a group of research machines. Under such circumstances, it is useful to gather
statistical information about the total use to date of each delivery agent.
The StatusFile option tells sendmail the name of the file into which it should save those
statistics. This option does not cause statistics to be gathered. It merely specifies the name
of the file where they might be saved. When sendmail runs, it checks for the existence of
such a file. If the file exists, it opens and updates the statistics in the file. If the file doesn??™t
exist, sendmail quietly ignores statistics. The statistics can be viewed by using the mailstats(
8)* program (?§10.4.1 on page 365).
The forms of the StatusFile option are as follows:
O StatusFile=path ?†? configuration file (V8.7 and later)
-OStatusFile=path ?†? command line (V8.
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