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> Was just having a look in /var/log the other day and spotted
> a file called sendmail.st, wondering what it was I cat'd it
> and here's what it did:

This file is used by sendmail to keep traffic statistics for each mailer.
man mailstats.  You should never cat arbitrary files, at least use 'less'
or some other filter.

- Mike


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