Sendmail 8.9.3 Release Notes

Chapter 1 11
New and Changed Features
New Features
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Generating the Configuration File
A shell script "gen_cf" is distributed along with the sendmail-8.9.3
patch. When the patch is installed, the script will be installed in the
directory /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf. This script has to be
executed as root and in the /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf
directory. This script cannot be copied to a different directory and
executed as this script will use the macros defined in the
/usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf directory to generate the sendmail.cf file.
This script gives the user several options. Each of these options will turn
ON a specific anti-spamming ruleset. The input file for this script will be
the *.m4 files defined in the /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf directory.
An output file of your choice can be specified. Later if there are any
site-specific changes, they can be incorporated into the output file
generated by this script. This file can be later copied or moved to
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf file.
The usage of this script is:
$ cd /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf
$ ./gen_cf test.cf
The test.cf is the resultant file. This can be later copied into the
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. This is not a must as the user can start
sendmail specifying the sendmail.cf file that is located in
/usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf directory as:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -C/usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf/test.cf
The options that can be enabled using this script are:
sendmail.cf with relay ON
sendmail.cf with relay OFF
sendmail.cf with relay_entire_domain
sendmail.cf with relay_based_on_MX
sendmail.cf with relay_hosts_only
sendmail.cf with access_db
sendmail.cf with relay_local_from
sendmail.cf with blacklist_recipients
sendmail.cf with accept_unresolvable_domains
sendmail.cf with accept_unqualified_senders
sendmail.cf with Realtime_Blackhole_list