Sendmail, 3rd Edition

Interrelating Options

At the end of this chapter we describe all the options in detail, with those descriptions in alphabetical order for easy lookup. Here, we present them grouped by application with only a brief description.

File Locations

sendmail knows the location of only its configuration file.^[6] Options in the configuration file tell sendmail where all other files and directories are located. The options that specify file locations are summarized in Table 24-6. All file location options are of type string.

Table 24-6. File location options

Option name		§	File
AliasFile	(A)	AliasFile	Aliases file and its database files
CACertFile		CACertFile	File containing certificates for certificate authorities
CACertPath		CACertPath	Directory with certificates of certificate authorities
ClientCertFile		ClientCertFile	File containing the client’s public certificate
ClientKeyFile		ClientKeyFile	File with the client certificate’s private key
ControlSocketName		ControlSocketName	Path to control socket
DeadLetterDrop		DeadLetterDrop	Define dead.letter file location
DHParameters		DHParameters	Parameters for DSA/DH cipher suite
ErrorHeader	(E)	ErrorHeader	Set error message header
ForwardPath	(J)	ForwardPath	Set forward file search path
HelpFile	(H)	HelpFile	Specify location of the help file
HostsFile		HostsFile	Specify alternate /etc/hosts file
HostStatusDirectory		HostStatusDirectory	Location of persistent host status
PidFile		PidFile	Location ...