Alphabetical Table of All Options

In this section we present a table of all options in alphabetical order. The leftmost column of Table 24-4 lists the multicharacter names first and then the old single-character names. The second column lists the type of argument that each option takes. These types are explained in the next section.

Table 24-4. All options ordered by option name

Option name

Type

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Description

AliasFile

(A)

String

AliasFile

Define the locations of the aliases files

AliasWait

(a)

Time

AliasWait

Wait for aliases file rebuild

AllowBogusHELO

Boolean

AllowBogusHELO

Allow no host with HELO or EHLO SMTP command

AuthMaxBits

Numeric

AuthMaxBits

Limit max encryption strength for SASL and STARTTLS

AuthMechanisms

String

AuthMechanisms

The AUTH mechanisms

AuthOptions

String

AuthOptions

Tune authentication parameters

AutoRebuildAliases

(D)

Boolean

AutoRebuildAliases

Autorebuild the aliases database (V8.11 and earlier) (deprecated)

BadRcptThrottle

Numeric

BadRcptThrottle

Slow excess bad RCPT TO: commands

BlankSub

(B)

Character

BlankSub

Set unquoted space replacement character

CACertFile

String

CACertFile

File containing certificate authority certs

CACertPath

String

CACertPath

Directory with certificate authority certs

CheckAliases

(n)

Boolean

CheckAliases

Check RHS of aliases

CheckpointInterval

(C)

Numeric

CheckpointInterval

Checkpoint the queue

ClassFactor

(z)

Numeric

ClassFactor

Multiplier for priority ...

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