System Administration Guide, Volume 3

Flags Used When Compiling sendmail

The following table lists the flags used when compiling the version of sendmail delivered with the Solaris 8 release. If your configuration requires other flags, you need to download the source and recompile the binary yourself. Information about this process can be found at http://www.sendmail.org.

Flag 

Description 

SOLARIS=20800 

Support for the Solaris 8 operating environment 

NDBM 

Support for ndbm databases 

NEWDB 

Support for db databases 

NIS  

Support for nis databases 

NISPLUS 

Support for nisplus databases 

LDAPMAP 

Support for LDAP maps 

USERDB 

Support for the User database 

MAP_REGEX 

Support for regular expression maps 

SUN_EXTENSIONS 

Solaris flag; support for Sun extensions included in sun_compat.o

VENDOR_DEFAULT=VENDOR_SUN 

Solaris flag; selects Sun as the default vendor 

USE_VENDOR_CF_PATH 

Solaris flag; allows for the configuration file to be placed in /etc/mail

_FFR_MAXALIASRECURSION_OPTION 

Solaris flag; enables selection of MaxAliasRecursion option 

_FFR_MAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH 

Solaris flag; enables selection of MaxMimeHeaderLength option