The options listed in the following table are the new configuration options for the Solaris 7 release. These options are sorted by their multicharacter name. If the option still has a single character name, it is displayed parenthetically. Many of the single character options supported in 2.6 are still supported in the Solaris 7 release. A complete description of these options can be found in sendmail, Second Edition, by Bryan Costales.
Table 3-2 sendmail Configuration File Option Changes
Argument |
Description |
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AllowBogusHELO |
Allow no hostname with HELO or EHLO. |
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ColonOkInAddr |
Allow colons in addresses. |
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ConnectionRateThrottle |
Slow the acceptance rate of new connections. |
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DefaultCharSet |
Define default character set. |
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DialDelay |
Set delay time for second connect() attempt. |
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DontBlameSendmail |
Disable parts of security checking. |
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DontExpandCnames |
Prevent canonical name expansion. |
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DontInitGroups |
Do not use initgroups(). |
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DontProbeInterfaces |
Disable automatic probing of interfaces. |
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DoubleBounceAddress |
Set email address for error notifications. |
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EightBitMode |
Specify how to handle unlabeled 8-bit data. |
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ErrorHeader (E) |
Append custom text ahead of error message text. |
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ForwardPath (J) |
Set alternative locations of the .forward file. |
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HostsFile |
Specify an alternative location for the /etc/hosts file. |
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HostStatusDirectory |
Set the location of the directory containing persistent host status data. |
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MaxDaemonChildren |
Limit the number of forked children of sendmail. |
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MaxMessageSize |
Set the maximum messages size. |
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MaxMimeHeaderLength |
Set the maximum length of certain MIME header field values. |
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MaxRecipientsPerMessage |
Set the maximum number of message recipients. |
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MaxQueueRunSize |
Set the number of queued messages that can be processed in one run. |
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MinQueueAge |
Determine the minimum amount of time a message must be in the queue before processing. |
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MustQuoteChars |
Set the list of characters that must be quoted in nonaddress information. |
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NoRecipientAction |
Determine how to handle headers without recipients. |
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OperatorChars or $o |
Establishe the list of separation operators. |
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QueueSortOrder |
Specify how to sort the queue. |
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RunAsUser |
Run sendmail as a non-root user. |
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SafeFileEnvironment |
Select the directory for safe file writes. |
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ServiceSwitchFile |
Specify the location of the switch file for name services. |
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SingleLineFromHeader |
Convert all newlines in the From: header to space characters. |
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SingleThreadDelivery |
Select single threaded delivery. |
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UnsafeGroupWrites |
Check for unsafe group permissions. |