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sendmail Different from most Linux programs the compilation of sendmail is prepared not over a configure script, but by editing the configuration file site.config.m4. Here the following features are activated:
In order to store sendmail configuration data in the LDAP database, sendmail.schema must be included in LDAP; see also schemas. The configuration of sendmail is made by the file sendmail.mc. This file is present also in the live system for changes of configuration, under /usr/src/sendmail/cf/cf/sendmail.mc. The connection between the SASL authentication system and sendmail is made by the configuration file /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf. The connection to the LDAP server will be created here, it is said which configuration data are stored in the LDAP data base, one connection to the MDA Cyrus IMAPD is created and the paths to the SSL certificates are set. In addition the connection to Cyrus requires a patch: sendmail-cyrus.patch. The path to the lmtp socket is changed; see also the file cyrus.conf on Cyrus IMAPD. For compiling of sendmail see section sendmail in the script COMPILE-BLFS as well as the second compiling cycle in the section sendmail in COMPILE-MYLINUX. |