Chapter 2. Build and Install sendmail
What’s New As of V8.13
V8.12.6 sendmail introduced one new
Build m4-macro that arrived too late for
inclusion in the third edition of the sendmail
book: the confMSP_STFILE
Build m4-macro (Section 2.1.1
[V8.13]).
confMSP_STFILE Build m4-macro
Beginning with V8.12.6 sendmail, the
confMSP_STFILE
Build macro
may be used to define a new name under which the
statistics file
(24.9.106[3ed]) used by the MSP
(2.6.2.4[3ed]) invocation of
sendmail can be installed.
It is used like this:
define(`confMSP_STFILE´, `mspstats´)Here, a statistics file with the new name mspstats
will be installed in the default directory
/var/spool/clientmqueue (unless you redefine the
default directory using the confMSP_QUEUE_DIR
(2.8.37[3ed]) Build
macro). The default name for this statistics file is
sm-client.st.
Note that if you rename this MSP statistics file, you will also have
to redefine the StatusFile option
(24.9.106[3ed]) in the
submit.cf file (2.6.2.4[3ed]) to reflect the new
name. The proper way to modify that file is to
first edit the cf/cf/submit.mc file in the
source distribution and then to regenerate a new
submit.cf file, like this:
#cd cf/cf... edit the submit.mc file here #make install-submit-cf... the submit.cf file is recreated and installed
Or, run make
submit.cf rather
than make
install-submit-cf if
you want to check the result before installation.
See also the mailstats program and its
-c command-line switch
(5.4.4.1[3ed]), which is used to print the ...