What's New in Version 8.12 of sendmail

Version 8.12 of sendmail has been included in this Solaris 9 release. Chapter 27, What's New With Mail Services (Reference) describes all of its new features. The following list highlights some of the important changes to sendmail.

• New Configuration File, submit.cf

• New or Deprecated Command-Line Options

• New and Revised Configuration File Options and Related Topics

• New and Revised m4 Configuration Macros for sendmail

• New Delivery Agent Flags

• New Equates for Delivery Agents

• Changes to Files

Chapter 27, What's New With Mail Services (Reference) also describes these other changes.

• Changes to mail.local

• Changes to mailstats

• Changes to makemap

• New Command, editmap

• Other Changes and Features of Interest

Other sendmail Information Sources

The following is a list of additional information sources about sendmail.

• Costales, Bryan. sendmail, Second Edition. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997.

• Home page for sendmail – http://www.sendmail.org

• FAQ for sendmail – http://www.sendmail.org/faq

• README for new sendmail configuration files – http://www.sendmail.org/m4/readme.html

• A guide for issues that are related to migrating to more recent 8.*+Sun versions of sendmail – http://www.sendmail.org/vendor/sun/