System Administration Guide, Volume 3

Define Configuration File Version

The new version of sendmail (version 8.9.3) includes a new configuration option that defines the version of the sendmail.cf file. This will allow older configuration files to be used with Version 8.9.3 sendmail. You can set the version level to values between 0 and 8. You can also define the vendor. Either Berkeley or Sun are valid vendor options. If the V option is not defined in the configuration file, the default setting is V1/Sun. If a version level is specified but no vendor is defined, Sun is used as the default vendor setting. The following table lists some of the valid options.

Table 35-2 Configuration File Version Values

Field 

Description 

V1/Sun

Use Solaris extensions of name service support. This option allows for old configuration files to be used with the new version of sendmail. This is the default setting if nothing is specified.

V7/Sun

Use for Version 8.8 of sendmail.

V8/Sun

Use for Version 8.9.3 of sendmail. This is the setting that is included inthe prebuilt configuration file in the Solaris 8 release.