Name
V line
Synopsis
As sendmail evolves,
it will continue to add new abilities to the qf
file. To protect old versions of sendmail from
wrongly misinterpreting new configuration files, the
V
line has been introduced. Note that prior to
V8.7 sendmail there was no V
line. The V
line, and qf
fileversion numbers for more modern
implementations of sendmail, are shown in Table 11-8.
qf version |
sendmail versions |
V1 |
V8.7.5 and earlier |
V2 |
V8.7.6 through V8.9.3 |
V4 |
V8.10 through V8.11 |
V5 |
V8.10 through V8.11 with _FFR_QUEUEDELAY defined |
V6 |
V8.12 |
V7 |
V8.12 with _FFR_QUEUEDELAY defined |
If the version found in a qf file is greater than that currently supported by sendmail, the following error will be printed if in verbose mode:
Version number in qf (bad
) greater than max (max
)
and the following message will be logged:
Losing qf file unsupported queue file version
The bad qf file will then be turned into a Qf file (marked as lost).
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