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Mail Administration Guide

V-Define Configuration File Version

The new version of sendmail (version 8) includes a new configuration option which defines the version of the sendmail.cf file. This will allow older configuration files to be used with Version 8 sendmail. You can set the version level to values between 0 and 5. 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, then Berkeley is the used as the default vendor setting. Table 3-8 lists some of the valid options.

Table 3-8 Configuration File Version Values

Field 

Description 

V0/Sun

Do not use Solaris extensions for name service support. 

V1/Sun

Use Solaris extensions of name service support. This is the default setting. 

V1

Use for older Berkeley configuration files.  

V5

Use for new Berkeley configuration files which set $w to be the short hostname.  

Note -

If Sun is defined as the vendor, then only V0 and V1 may be used to define the level.