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DefaultCharSet=
charset
Use this option to set the default character-set used to label 8-bit data that is not other-
wise labeled.
DialDelay=sleeptime
If opening a connection fails, sleep for sleeptime seconds and try again. This is useful
on dial-on-demand sites.
NoRecipientAction=
action
Use this option to set the behaviour when there are no recipient headers (To:, Cc: or
Bcc:) in a message to action . The action can be set to the following values:
none Leaves the message unchanged.
add-to Adds a To: header with the envelope recipients.
add-apparently-to
Adds an Apparently-To:
header with the envelope recipients.
add-bcc Adds an empty Bcc:
add-to-undisclosed
Adds a header reading To:undisclosed-recipients:
MaxDaemonChildren=
N
Use this option to set the maximum number of children that an incoming SMTP dae-
mon will allow to spawn at any time to N.
ConnectionRateThrottle=
N
Use this option to set the maximum number of connections per second to the SMTP
port to N.
AutoRebuildAliases
Use this option to rebuild the alias database when needed. Setting this option may
cause excessive overhead and is not recommended.
DontProbeInterfaces
Use this option to turn off the inclusion of all the interface names in $=w on startup.
In particular, if you have many virtual interfaces, this option speeds up the startup.
However, unless you make other arrangements, mails sent to those addresses will
bounce. This is useful for sending mail to hosts which have dynamically assigned
names.
DontBlameSendmail=
options
This options allows you to bypass some of
sendmail file security checks at the
expense of system security. This should be used only if you are aware of the conse-
quences. The options available for DontBlameSendmail
are:
Safe
AssumeSafeChown
ClassFileInUnsafeDirPath
ErrorHeaderInUnsafeDirPath
GroupWritableDirPathSafe
GroupWritableForwardFileSafe
GroupWritableIncludeFileSafe
GroupWritableAliasFile
HelpFileinUnsafeDirPath
WorldWritableAliasFile
ForwardFileInGroupWritableDirPath
IncludeFileInGroupWritableDirPath
ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPath
IncludeFileInUnsafeDirPath
ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPathSafe
IncludeFileInUnsafeDirPathSafe
MapInUnsafeDirPath
LinkedAliasFileInWritableDir
LinkedClassFileInWritableDir
LinkedForwardFileInWritableDir
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