This topic briefly describes how to use z/OS UNIX sendmail, provided with z/OS® Communications Server, to prepare and send electronic mail using the facilities of the z/OS shell.

For a comprehensive discussion of sendmail, see the industry-accepted document sendmail by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

You can also find more information about sendmail on Web site http://www.sendmail.org. For the features added after version 8.8.7, see SENDMAIL INSTALLATION AND OPERATION GUIDE, that can be found on Web site http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/op.html.