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System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

Changes to mail.local

The following table describes the new command-line options for the mail.local program, which is used by sendmail as a delivery agent for local mail.

Table 27–22 New Command-Line Options for mail.local

Option 

Description 

-7

Prevents the Local Mail Transfer Protocol (LMTP) mode from advertising 8BITMIME support in the LHLO response

-b

Causes a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a mailbox exceeds its quota 

mail.local is the default for LMTP mode. However, for this release, if you choose to use mail.local as the local delivery agent without being in LMTP mode, you need to do one of the following to set the S flag.

Use the following syntax for the configuration file.


MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')      # for the configuration file

Alternately, perform the following two steps for m4 configuration.


define(`MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS', `S')dnl   # first step
MAILER(local)dnl                        # second step
Note –

MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS is a new macro that is used to build the configuration file. For details, refer to New Macros Used to Build the sendmail Configuration File.

For a complete review, refer to the mail.local(1M) man page.