Sendmail, 3rd Edition

Options in the mc File

When you create a configuration file with the mc configuration technique (see Chapter 4), you can tune each option by including an appropriate statement in your .mc configuration file:^[5]

define(`option',`value')        ← enclose in opposing single quotes 
define(`confAUTO_REBUILD',`True')   ← for example
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=1097')← for example

The option is selected from one of the mc option names shown in the leftmost column of Table 24-3. The value is an appropriate value for that option, as described in the reference section at the end of this chapter. Note that the option and the value should each be enclosed in opposing single quotes to prevent m4 from wrongly recognizing either as a keyword or macro. The leftmost single quote is the reverse apostrophe, and the rightmost is the normal apostrophe.

Table 24-3. All option mc macros ordered by name

mc name	Option name	§
ALIAS_FILE	AliasFile	AliasFile
CLIENT_OPTIONS( )	ClientPortOptions	ClientPortOptions
confALIAS_WAIT	AliasWait	AliasWait
confALLOW_BOGUS_HELO	AllowBogusHELO	AllowBogusHELO
confAUTH_MAX_BITS	AuthMaxBits	AuthMaxBits
confAUTH_MECHANISMS	AuthMechanisms	AuthMechanisms
confAUTH_OPTIONS	AuthOptions	AuthOptions
confAUTO_REBUILD	AutoRebuildAliases	AutoRebuildAliases
confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE	BadRcptThrottle	BadRcptThrottle
confBIND_OPTS	ResolverOptions	ResolverOptions
confBLANK_SUB	BlankSub	BlankSub
confCACERT	CACertFile	CACertFile
confCACERT_PATH	CACertPath	CACertPath ...