HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Networking

Internet Services

Chapter 5

• Improved LDAP based routing

• Various new option values, configuration options and command options

Details of Change

The following changes have been made in version 8.11.1 of Sendmail:

• The error code returned for unrecognized parameters to the SMTP mail and RCPT

commands is changed from 501 to 555 as per RFC 1869.

• The configuration file (Sendmail.cf) version number is incremented to 9.

• Aliases with no right-hand side are provided with ‘missing value’ warnings, when

‘newaliases’ is run instead of making an attempt to deliver the mail messages to an

alias.

• A new mailer flag, ‘F=%’ is included in this release.

•The [

hostname

] is added to class ‘w’ for the names of all interfaces unless

DontProbeInterfaces option is set.

• All numbered rulesets have been named in this release.

• A ‘/Quit’ command to address the test mode is added.

• The SMTP commands are not processed when the SMTP connection drops.

• Purgestat and sendmail -bH options delete only expired files in the host status

database, which have exceeded the values set by

Timeout.hoststatus

• The process ID file can now be specified with the PidFile option.

In this release, the user’s address is not available in the Diagnostic-Code field of delivery

status notification (DSN) messages.

Documentation

Sendmail 8.11.1 Release Notes, as well as, other Internet Services related documentation

can be found at:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/

The manpages associated with this product and released in HP-UX 11i v1.6 are:

• killsm (1M)

• makemap (1M)

• sendmail (1M)

• mailq (1)

• mailstats (1)

• praliases (1)