Refer to the following tables for information about the specific changes to the FEATURE() declarations.
To use the new and revised FEATURE names, use the following syntax.
FEATURE(`name', `argument') |
If you need to build a new sendmail.cf file, refer to Building the sendmail.cf Configuration File in Chapter 13, Mail Services (Tasks).
Table 14–25 Additional and Revised FEATURE() Declarations
Name of FEATURE() |
Description |
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Argument: Refer to the example in the following paragraph. This new FEATURE() enables you to look for a key in the access map that consists of the sender address and the recipient address. This FEATURE() is delimited by the following string, <@>. sender@sdomain<@>recipient@rdomain is an example. |
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Argument: friend, which enables a spam-friend test, or hater, which enables a spam-hater test. A new FEATURE() that delays all checks. By using FEATURE(`delay_checks'), the rule sets check_mail and check_relay are not called when a client connects or issues a MAIL command respectively. Instead, these rule sets are called by the check_rcpt rule set. For details, refer to the /etc/mail/cf/README file. |
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Argument: This FEATURE()accepts a maximum of two arguments:
A new FEATURE() that you can include multiple times to check the return values for DNS lookups. Note that this FEATURE() enables you to specify the behavior of temporary lookup failures. |
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Argument: domain name. A new FEATURE() that is an enhanced version of dnsbl, which enables you to check the return values for DNS lookups. For more information, refer to /etc/mail/cf/README. |
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Argument: None. A new FEATURE() that you can also use to apply genericstable to subdomains of $=G. |
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Argument: For details, refer to the “Release Notes” in http://www.sendmail.org. A new FEATURE() that implements LDAP address routing. |
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Argument: Path name of an LMTP-capable mailer. The default is mail.local, which is LMTP capable in this Solaris release. A FEATURE() that now sets the delivery status notification (DSN) diagnostic-code type for the local mailer to the proper value of SMTP. |
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Argument: None. A new FEATURE() that you can use to avoid masquerading for the local mailer. |
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Argument: None. A new FEATURE() that you can also use to look up the .domain in the access map. |
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Argument: canonify_hosts or nothing. A FEATURE() that now includes the following features. Enables a list of domains, as specified by CANONIFY_DOMAIN or CANONIFY_DOMAIN_FILE, to be passed to the $[ and $] operators for canonification. Enables addresses that have only a host name, such as <user@host>, to be canonified, if canonify_hosts is specified as its parameter. Adds a trailing dot to addresses with more than one component. |
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Argument: None. A new FEATURE() that turns off sendmail's default setting from m4–generated configuration files to “listen” on several different ports, an implementation of RFC 2476. |
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Argument: reject, which does not allow the ! token, or nospecial, which does allow the ! token. A FEATURE() that determines whether to allow the ! token in the local part of an address. |
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Argument: None. A FEATURE() that now provides the full rule sets of a normal configuration, allowing antispam checks to be performed. |
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Argument: None. A new FEATURE() that enables you to preserve the +detail portion of the address when sendmail passes the address to the local delivery agent. |
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Argument: None. A new FEATURE() that enables you to preserve the name of the recipient host, if LUSER_RELAY is used. |
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Argument: None. A new FEATURE() that enables you to select a queue group that is based on the full email address or on the domain of the recipient. |
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Argument: The domain is an optional argument. A new FEATURE() that allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as a RELAY in the access map and is tagged with the From: header line. If the optional domain argument is given, the domain portion of the mail sender is also checked. |
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Argument: None. A FEATURE() that you can now use to apply $={VirtHost}, a new class for matching virtusertable entries that can be populated by VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE. FEATURE(`virtuser_entire_domain') can also apply the class $={VirtHost} to entire subdomains. |
The following FEATURE() declarations are no longer supported.
Table 14–26 Unsupported FEATURE() Declarations