Download location (HTTP): http://www.sendmail.org/ftp/sendmail.8.12.9.tar.gz Download location (FTP): ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.12.9.tar.gz Version used: 8.12.9 Package size: 1.9 MB Estimated Disk space required: 13 MB |
The sendmail package contains a Mail Transport Agent (MTA).
sendmail depends on: db-4.1.25, procmail-3.22 |
Before building sendmail, we need to create users, groups and directories that sendmail uses with the following commands:
groupadd smmsp && groupadd mail && useradd -g smmsp -G mail smmsp && chmod 1777 /tmp && chmod 1777 /var/mail && mkdir /var/spool/mqueue |
Install sendmail with the following commands:
cat > devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF" define(`confMANGRP',`root') define(`confMANOWN',`root') define(`confSBINGRP',`root') define(`confUBINGRP',`root') define(`confUBINOWN',`root') EOF cd sendmail && sh Build && cd ../cf/cf && cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc && mkdir /etc/mail && sh Build sendmail.mc && sh Build install-cf && cd ../../ && sh Build install |
/etc/mail/aliases.db, /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, /etc/mail/submit.cf and /etc/mail/local-host-names
echo `hostname` > /etc/mail/local-host-names cat > /etc/mail/aliases << "EOF" postmaster: root MAILER-DAEMON: root EOF cd /etc/mail && cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-8.12.9/cf/* . && cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-8.12.9/cf/cf/submit.mc . && cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-8.12.9/cf/cf/sendmail.mc . && newaliases -v |
To start and stop sendmail on system boot/shutdown create the sendmail boot script with the following commands:
Note: The -qNm option, where N is number of minutes, controls how often Sendmail will process the mail queue. A default of 5 minutes is used here. Individual workstation users may want to set this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail will want to set it higher.
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $rc_functions
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting sendmail..."
loadproc /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q5m start
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping Sendmail..."
killproc sendmail
;;
status)
statusproc sendmail
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
# End $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail |
Create the run level symlinks with the following commands:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d && ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc0.d/K25sendmail && ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc1.d/K25sendmail && ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc2.d/K25sendmail && ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc3.d/S35sendmail && ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc4.d/S35sendmail && ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc5.d/S35sendmail && ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc6.d/K25sendmail |
The sendmail package contains mail.local, rmail, smrsh, editmap, makemap, mailq, newaliases, sendmail, vacation, praliases and mailstats.
mail.local appends its standard input to a user's mail file.
rmail interprets incoming mail received via uucp.
smrsh is a restricted shell for Sendmail.
editmap queries and edits Sendmail map files.
makemap creates Sendmail map files.
mailq prints a summary of waiting mail messages.
newaliases rebuilds /etc/mail/aliases.db.
sendmail is the Sendmail mail transport agent.
vacation is an email auto responder.
praliases displays current Sendmail aliases.
mailstats displays Sendmail statistics.