sendmail 8.13 Companion

Useful Tables

This section contains two tables of information that are useful for building and installing sendmail:

• Table 2-1 (Section 2.2.1 ^[V8.13]) shows the directories and files that will populate the source directory after you extract the sendmail source.

• Table 2-2 (Section 2.2.2 ^[V8.13]) shows the m4 directives that determine how the sendmail program (and its companion programs) will be built.

The sendmail Source Directory

The files and directories that appear after you unpack sendmail into its source directory are listed in Table 2-1. They are described in detail in the sections indicated.

Table 2-1. Files and directories in the distribution directory

File/Directory	sendmail text reference	Description
Build	2.2.1.1[3ed]	A top-level Build script
CACerts	[V8.13]	A list of CA certificates used by members of the sendmail consortium
cf	4.2[3ed]	Top of the tree for building a configuration file
contrib	2.2.1.2[3ed]	Unsupported, user-contributed software
devtools	2.2.1.3[3ed]	Top of the tree for Build support tools
doc	2.2.1.4[3ed]	Current and background documentation
editmap	5.2[3ed]	Edit database file entries
FAQ		See http://www.sendmail.org/faq/
include	2.2.1.5[3ed]	Header files common to all programs
INSTALL	2.2.1.6[3ed]	An overview of how to build and install sendmail
KNOWNBUGS	2.2.1.7[3ed]	Tough problems that remain unfixed
libmilter	2.2.1.8[3ed]	Library used to create a multithreaded filter
libsm ...