Contents of the /etc/mail/cf Directory (System Administration Guide: Network Services)

System Administration Guide: Network Services

Contents of the `/etc/mail/cf` Directory

Within the /etc/mail directory is a subdirectory, cf, that contains all of the necessary files to build a sendmail.cf file. The content of cf is shown in Table 14–9.

Starting in the Solaris 10 release, to support a read-only /usr file system, the content of the /usr/lib/mail directory has been moved to the /etc/mail/cf directory. Note, however, these exceptions. The shell scripts /usr/lib/mail/sh/check-hostname and /usr/lib/mail/sh/check-permissions are now in the /usr/sbin directory. See Other Files Used for Mail Services. For backward compatibility, symbolic links point to each file's new location.

Table 14–9 Contents of the /etc/mail/cf Directory Used for Mail Services


Name	Type	Description
`README`	File	Describes the configuration files.
`cf/main.mc`	File	Previously named `cf/main-v7sun.mc`. Is the main configuration file.
`cf/Makefile`	File	Provides rules for building new configuration files.
`cf/submit.mc`	File	Is the configuration file for the mail submission program (MSP), which is used to submit messages.
`cf/subsidiary.mc`	File	Previously named `cf/subsidiary-v7sun.mc`. Is the configuration file for hosts that NFS-mount `/var/mail` from another host.
`domain`	Directory	Provides site-dependent subdomain descriptions.
`domain/generic.m4`	File	Is the generic domain file from Berkeley Software Distribution.
`domain/solaris-antispam.m4`	File	Is the domain file with changes that make `sendmail` function like the previous Solaris versions of `sendmail`. However, relaying is disabled completely, sender addresses with no host name are rejected, and unresolvable domains are rejected.
`domain/solaris-generic.m4`	File	Is the default domain file with changes that make `sendmail` function like the previous Solaris versions of `sendmail`.
`feature`	Directory	Contains definitions of specific features for particular hosts. See `README` for a full description of the features.
`m4`	Directory	Contains site-independent include files.
`mailer`	Directory	Contains definitions of mailers, which include `local`, `smtp`, and `uucp`.
`ostype`	Directory	Describes various operating system environments.
`ostype/solaris2.m4`	File	Defines default local mailer as `mail.local`.
`ostype/solaris2.ml.m4`	File	Defines default local mailer as `mail.local`.
`ostype/solaris2.pre5.m4`	File	Defines local mailer as `mail`.
`ostype/solaris8.m4`	File	Defines local mailer as `mail.local` (in LMTP mode), enables IPv6, specifies `/var/run` as the directory for the `sendmail.pid` file.