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NAME

6       sendmail, sendmail.cf, submit.cf - sendmail configuration files
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SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
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DESCRIPTION

16       The  sendmail.cf  and  submit.cf  files are the configuration files for
17       sendmail(1M). Starting with version 8.12 of sendmail, which was shipped
18       with version 9 of the Solaris operating system, two configuration files
19       are used for submission and transmission of mail, instead of only send‐
20       mail.cf, as before. These are:
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22       sendmail.cf    Remains  the principal sendmail configuration file. Used
23                      for the Mail Transmission Agent (MTA).
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26       submit.cf      Used for the Mail Submission Program (MSP). The  MSP  is
27                      used  to  submit  mail messages. Unlike the MTA, it does
28                      not run as an SMTP daemon.
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32       The MSP does not require root privileges, thus the two-file model  pro‐
33       vides  better  security  than the pre-sendmail 8.12 model, in which the
34       MSP ran as a daemon and required root privileges.
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37       In the default sendmail  configuration,  sendmail  uses  submit.cf,  as
38       indicated  in ps(1) output. In ps output, you will observe two sendmail
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46       The first indicates  the  use  of  submit.cf,  with  the  client  queue
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48       15 minutes. The second invocation runs sendmail as  a  daemon,  waiting
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52       As  shipped, sendmail.cf and, in particular, submit.cf, are appropriate
53       for most environments. Where a knowledgeable system administrator needs
54       to make a change, he should use the following procedures.
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59           1.     Change directories to the directory that contains the source
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62                    # cd /etc/mail/cf/cf
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68                    # cp sendmail.mc `hostname`.mc
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94       You  must restart sendmail for sendmail.cf file changes to take effect,
95       as indicated in step 6. Steps 4 - 6 can  be  automated.  See  Automated
96       Rebuilding of Configuration Files below.
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110                    # cp submit.mc submit-`hostname`.mc
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130       You  do  not  need to restart sendmail for changes to submit.cf to take
131       effect.  Steps 4 and 5 can be automated. See  Automated  Rebuilding  of
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134   Enabling Access to Remote Clients
135       The  sendmail(1M) man page describes how the config/local_only property
136       can be set to true or false to disallow or allow, respectively,  access
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140       Setting  values  for  the following properties for the service instance
141       svc:/network/smtp:sendmail results in automated (re)building of config‐
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150       The  values  for these properties should be strings which represent the
151       path name of the .mc files referred to in steps 2 and 3 of both  proce‐
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160       Each property, if set, results in the corresponding .mc file being used
161       to (re)build the matching .cf file when the service is started.
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164       These properties persist across upgrades  and  patches.  To  prevent  a
165       patch  or  upgrade  from  clobbering  your  .cf file, or renaming it to
166       .cf.old, you can set the desired  properties instead.
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169       /etc/mail/cf/README    Describes sendmail configuration files.
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ATTRIBUTES

173       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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178       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
179       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
180       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
181       │Availability                 │SUNWsndmr                    │
182       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
183       │Interface Stability          │Committed                    │
184       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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