Flags Used and Not Used to Compile sendmail (System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services)

System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

Flags Used and Not Used to Compile `sendmail`

The following tables list the flags that are used when compiling the version of sendmail that is delivered with the Solaris 9 release. If your configuration requires other flags, you need to download the source and recompile the binary. You can find information about this process at http://www.sendmail.org.

Table 26–1 General sendmail Flags


Flag	Description
`SOLARIS=20900`	Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment.
`MILTER`	Support for the Mail Filter API.
`NETINET6`	Support for IPv6. This flag has been moved from `conf.h` to `Makefile`.

Table 26–2 Maps and Database Types


Flag	Description
`NDBM`	Support for `ndbm` databases
`NEWDB`	Support for `db` databases
`USERDB`	Support for the `User` database
`NIS`	Support for `nis` databases
`NISPLUS`	Support for `nisplus` databases
`LDAPMAP`	Support for `LDAP` maps
`MAP_REGEX`	Support for regular expression maps

Table 26–3 Solaris Flags


Flag	Description
`SUN_EXTENSIONS`	Support for Sun extensions that are included in `sun_compat.o`.
`SUN_LOOKUP_MACRO`	Support for the `L` and `G` configuration commands in `sendmail.cf`. Use of these commands is not recommended.
`SUN_DEFAULT_VALUES`	Support only for the default values in the Solaris flag, `SUN_CONTENT_LENGTH`.
`SUN_INIT_DOMAIN`	For backward compatibility, support for the use of NIS domain names to fully qualify the local host name. For more information, look for vendor-specific information in http://www.sendmail.org.
`SUN_CONTENT_LENGTH`	Support for the `Content-Length:` header in messages to files. For more information, look for vendor-specific information in http://www.sendmail.org.
`SUN_SIMPLIFIED_LDAP`	Support for a simplified LDAP API, which is specific to Sun. For more information, look for vendor-specific information in http://www.sendmail.org.
`VENDOR_DEFAULT=VENDOR_SUN`	Selects Sun as the default vendor.

The following table lists generic flags that are not used to compile the version of sendmail that is delivered with the Solaris 9 release.

Table 26–4 Generic Flags Not Used in the Solaris Version of sendmail


Flag	Description
`SASL`	Simple Authentication and Security Layer (RFC 2554)
`STARTTLS`	Transaction Level Security (RFC 2487)

To see a list of the flags that are used to compile sendmail, use the following command.

% /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null

Note –

The preceding command does not list the flags that are specific to Sun.