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Installing sendmail
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**Note**: Starting with sendmail 8.12, sendmail is no longer set-user-ID
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root by default. As a result of this, you need to install two .cf files.
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See steps 4 and 6 in this document. We also strongly recommend reading
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sendmail/SECURITY for more installation information.
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1. Read all the README files noted in the INTRODUCTION section of the README
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file in this top-level directory.
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2. Create any necessary site configuration build files, as noted in
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devtools/Site/README.
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3. In the sendmail/ directory, run "sh ./Build" (see sendmail/README for
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details).
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4. Change to the cf/cf/ directory (that's not a typo): Copy whichever .mc
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file best matches your environment to sendmail.mc. Next, tailor it
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as explained in cf/README. Then run
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"sh ./Build sendmail.cf".
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5. Back up your current /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and the sendmail binary (whose
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location varies from operating system to operating system, but is usually
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in /usr/sbin or /usr/lib).
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6. Install sendmail.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and submit.cf as
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/etc/mail/submit.cf. This can be done in the cf/cf by using
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"sh ./Build install-cf".
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Please read sendmail/SECURITY before continuing; you have to create a
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new user smmsp and a new group smmsp for the default installation.
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Then install the sendmail binary built in step 3 by cd-ing back to
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sendmail/ and running "sh ./Build install".
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2002-06-11 21:12:04 +00:00
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7. For each of the associated sendmail utilities (makemap, mailstats,
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etc.), read the README in the utility's directory if it exists. When
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you are ready to install it, back up your installed version and type
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"sh ./Build install".
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2001-01-21 22:17:06 +00:00
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8. If you are upgrading from an older version of sendmail and are using any
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database maps, be sure to rebuild them with the new version of makemap,
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in case you are now using a different (and thereby incompatible) version
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of Berkeley DB.
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$Revision: 8.16 $, Last updated $Date: 2007/10/03 21:00:28 $
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