Standard sendmail configuration

Execute the command mkdev cf to perform sendmail configuration. The major tasks of mkdev cf are to:

• lead you through an interactive configuration utility for entering information needed for the sendmail configuration file, such as the host and domain name of the local system, the identity (if present) of a UUCP gateway and UUCP connections, and the identity (if present) of an X.400 gateway

• combine the information you enter with a default configuration source file to build and install a standard sendmail configuration file. If successful, the configuration file /usr/lib/sendmail.cf is created.

The default configuration created here supports both UUCP and Internet style addressing. The user entered information allows a network administrator to designate a machine on the network as the UUCP gateway machine, which will process all UUCP requests for the net or subnet. If an X.400 gateway is specified by the user information, sendmail also will forward mail that is addressed in X.400 style to that gateway. The user information also provides for telling sendmail to use NIS maps to define mail aliases.