Managing sendmail Services in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Flags Used and Not Used to Compile sendmail

The following flags are used to compile sendmail. If your configuration requires other flags, you need to download the source and recompile the binary. You can find information about this process at http://www.sendmail.orghttp://www.sendmail.org.

Table 3-1  General sendmail Flags
Flag
Description
SOLARIS=21000
Support for the Solaris 10 release.
MILTER
Support for the Mail Filter API. In version 8.13 of sendmail, this flag is enabled by default. See MILTER, Mail Filter API for sendmail.
NETINET6
Support for IPv6. This flag has been moved from conf.h to Makefile.
Table 3-2  OS Flags
Flag
Description
SUN_EXTENSIONS
Support for extensions that are included in sun_compat.o.
SUN_INIT_DOMAIN
For backward compatibility, support for the use of NIS domain names to fully qualify the local host name. For more information, look for vendor-specific information in http://www.sendmail.orghttp://www.sendmail.org.
SUN_SIMPLIFIED_LDAP
Support for a simplified LDAP API, which is specific to Sun. For more information, look for vendor-specific information in http://www.sendmail.orghttp://www.sendmail.org.
VENDOR_DEFAULT=VENDOR_SUN
Selects Sun as the default vendor.

The following table lists generic flags that are not used to compile the version of sendmail.

Table 3-3  Generic Flags Not Used in This Version of sendmail
Flag
Description
SASL
Simple Authentication and Security Layer (RFC 2554)
STARTTLS
Transaction Level Security (RFC 2487)

To see a list of the flags that are used to compile sendmail, use the following command.

% /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null
Note - The preceding command does not list the flags that are specific to Sun.
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