Among the many mail Server software, Sendmail is always honored in every evaluation, making it the most widely used E-mail server. However, many people may feel a headache when talking about the Sendmail configuration. For a long time, many people have been tired of asking about their configurations on BBS and newsgroups over and over again. The author hopes to use this article to fully explain the use of Sendmail.
Download and install Sendmail configurations
The latest version of Sendmail is 8.11.3, and the file size is 1.2 MB.
1. Decompress Sendmail configuration
# Tar-zxvf Sendmail-8.11.3.tar.gz
# Cd Sendmail-8.11.3
If the package is in rpm format, unzip and install it as follows:
# Rpm-ivh Sendmail-8.11.3-src.rpm
2. Configure and compile Sendmail
#./Build
If no problem exists, the directory obj. linux.2.2.18.i686 will be automatically generated after the compilation is complete (this is the author's core name, maybe your kernel name is different from this ).
3. Install Sendmail configuration
#./Build install
If it is a software package in rpm format, it should be compiled as follows:
# Rpm-ba Sendmail-8.11.1.spec
# Rpm-ivh Sendmail *. rpm
Compilation and installation are complete now