> See src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper > symlinks for hoststat and purgestat to mailwrapper > [...] > mailq and newaliases are mentioned in the manpages but not hoststat > and purgestat.
My guess is, because the latter are specific to a particular mailer. mailq and newaliases date back to sendmail (or further); many more recent MTAs provide similar functionality under those names for the sake of compatibility (mostly, I suspect, with humans). hoststat and purgestat are not. I don't know what they do, and I don't know whether modern sendmail (if there is such a thing - I'm so out of touch with MTAs these days that I don't even know that) provides them. But they definitely are more recent and, probably, less universal. While I'm not qualified to speak with any authority on the matter, I would guess that those links are shipped because the shipped mailer provides them. > default etc/mailer.conf does not have them Not surprising. It would make sense to provide links for only those things that most common mailers provide. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
