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Sendmail 8.12.x
Authored by: professor on Jun 15, '02 11:41:00AM

Woohoo! So Apple finally updated to Sendmail 8.12.

As alway, however, they are a couple of versions
behind current (8.12.2 vs 8.12.4).

I have been running 8.12.x since I started with MacOSX.

One "gotcha" not mentioned in the O'Reilly article is that
you need the following option in your sendmail.mc file (used
to build sendmail.cf)

MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')dnl

This is because sendmail no longer runs as root, so you either need to
make /usr/libexec/mail.local (or /usr/bin/procmail; whichever you use as
your local mail delivery agent) SUID root, or you need to set the above
flag. If you do neither, then sendmail won't be able to deliver mail
locally.



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