4 **Note**: Starting with sendmail 8.12, sendmail is no longer set-user-ID
5 root by default. As a result of this, you need to install two .cf files.
6 See steps 4 and 6 in this document. We also strongly recommend reading
7 sendmail/SECURITY for more installation information.
9 1. Read all the README files noted in the INTRODUCTION section of the README
10 file in this top-level directory.
12 2. Create any necessary site configuration build files, as noted in
15 3. In the sendmail/ directory, run "sh ./Build" (see sendmail/README for
18 4. Change to the cf/cf/ directory (that's not a typo): Copy whichever .mc
19 file best matches your environment to sendmail.mc. Next, tailor it
20 as explained in cf/README. Then run
21 "sh ./Build sendmail.cf".
23 5. Back up your current /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and the sendmail binary (whose
24 location varies from operating system to operating system, but is usually
25 in /usr/sbin or /usr/lib).
27 6. Install sendmail.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and submit.cf as
28 /etc/mail/submit.cf. This can be done in the cf/cf by using
29 "sh ./Build install-cf".
31 Please read sendmail/SECURITY before continuing; you have to create a
32 new user smmsp and a new group smmsp for the default installation.
33 Then install the sendmail binary built in step 3 by cd-ing back to
34 sendmail/ and running "sh ./Build install".
36 7. For each of the associated sendmail utilities (makemap, mailstats,
37 etc.), read the README in the utility's directory if it exists. When
38 you are ready to install it, back up your installed version and type
41 8. If you are upgrading from an older version of sendmail and are using any
42 database maps, be sure to rebuild them with the new version of makemap,
43 in case you are now using a different (and thereby incompatible) version
46 $Revision: 8.16 $, Last updated $Date: 2007/10/03 21:00:28 $