7), accidentally placing a space
character between the O and the option letter wrongly causes sendmail to silently
accept the space character as the option name. For example, the space in O A/
etc/aliases gives to the option ???space??? the argument A/etc/aliases. Beginning
withV8.7, a space option causes a multicharacter option name to be recognized
(?ยง24.3.2 on page 952).
??? Options are parsed from the top of the sendmail.cf file down. For most options,
later declarations supersede earlier declarations. For example, if you try to
change the location of the queue directory by placing the line OQ/mail/spool/
mqueue at the top of your sendmail.cf file, that change is masked (ignored) by the
existence of OQ/var/spool/mqueue later in the file. Other options, such as
AliasFile, add the new definition to the prior one.
??? For the most part, command-line options supersede the sendmail.cf file options
because the command line is parsed after the sendmail.cf file is parsed. One way
to change the location of the aliases file (perhaps for testing) is with a commandline
argument such as:
-OAliasFile=/tmp/aliases
For security reasons, however, not all command-line options are available to the
ordinary user. (See Table 24-2 on page 951 for a list of those that are available.)
24.9 Alphabetized Options
In the following sections, we present all the options that are currently available for
V8 sendmail.
Pages:
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
1696
1697
1698
1699
1700
1701
1702
1703
1704
1705
1706
1707
1708
1709
1710
1711
1712
1713
1714