But the ordinary user
can specify a few options that allow sendmail to keep its special privilege. Those
options are called ???safe??? and are shown in Table 24-2.
Table 24-1. Options inappropriate to the configuration file
Option name ?§ Description
IgnoreDots (i) ?§24.9.58 on page 1038 Ignore dots. If you need to use this option, use the -i commandline
switch (see ?§6.7.28 on page 243) to set it.
(no long name) (M) ?§24.9.131 on page 1118 Define a macro. Use the D configuration command instead (see
?§21.3 on page 787).
Verbose (v) ?§24.9.129 on page 1117 Run in verbose mode. Instead use the -v command-line switch
(see ?§6.7.47 on page 249).
Table 24-2. Options that are safe
Option name ?§ Description
AllowBogusHELO ?§24.9.3 on page 974 Allow no-host with HELO or EHLO.
BadRcptThrottle ?§24.9.9 on page 979 Slow excess bad RCPT To: commands.
CheckpointInterval (C) ?§24.9.14 on page 983 Checkpoint the queue.
ColonOkInAddr ?§24.9.19 on page 986 Allow colons in addresses.
DefaultCharSet ?§24.9.31 on page 1000 Define Content-Type: character set.
DeliveryMode (d) ?§24.9.35 on page 1004 Set delivery mode.
DialDelay ?§24.9.37 on page 1007 Delay after connect failure.
EightBitMode (8) ?§24.9.45 on page 1025 How to convert MIME input.
ErrorMode (e) ?§24.9.47 on page 1028 Specify mode of error handling.
IgnoreDots (i) ?§24.9.58 on page 1038 Ignore leading dots in messages.
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