Name
SMTP
Synopsis
Prior to V8.12, if you were running sendmail as a daemon, you needed to define SMTP to enable mail transfers. If you didn’t intend to run sendmail as a daemon, SMTP did not need to be defined. The default was that SMTP was automatically defined if either NETINET or NETISO was defined; otherwise, SMTP was undefined.
Beginning with V8.12, the SMTP compile-time macro has been deprecated and removed. It is now impossible to exclude SMTP support from sendmail.
If a precompiled sendmail lacks SMTP support, an
attempt to use sendmail’s
-bs
command-line switch will result in this fatal
error:
I don't speak SMTP
SMTP activity can be watched with the -v
command-line switch (-v).
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