Starting in the Solaris 10 release, 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.org.
Table 14–1 General sendmail Flags
Flag |
Description |
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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 14–2 Maps and Database Types
Flag |
Description |
---|---|
NDBM |
Support for ndbm databases |
NEWDB |
Support for Berkeley DB databases |
USERDB |
Support for the user database |
NIS |
Support for nis databases |
NISPLUS |
Support for nisplus databases |
LDAPMAP |
Support for LDAP maps |
MAP_REGEX |
Support for regular expression maps |
Table 14–3 Solaris Flags
Flag |
Description |
---|---|
SUN_EXTENSIONS |
Support for Sun 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.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.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 that is delivered with the Solaris 10 release.
Table 14–4 Generic Flags Not Used in the Solaris Version of sendmail
Flag |
Description |
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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 |
The preceding command does not list the flags that are specific to Sun.