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Posted: **Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:40 pm**

1. Download the latest stable version:

wget ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.14.6.tar.gz

2. Unzip & untar it to the working directory

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cd /work/system_apps
gzcat sendmail.8.14.6.tar.gz | tar xf -

3. Chang to the directory

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cd /work/system_apps/sendmail-8.14.6/
sh Build (or make)

4. Archive /etc/mail/cf directory

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mv /etc/mail/cf /etc/mail/cf.8.14.5

5. Create and modify sendmail.cf

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cp -rp /work/system_apps/sendmail-8.14.6/cf/ /etc/mail/

5.1. Make sure /etc/mail/cf/m4/cf.m4 has "/etc/mail/cf" in there.

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`define(`_CF_DIR_', `../')',

To:

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`define(`_CF_DIR_', `/etc/mail/cf/')',

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m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc_AUTH > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.8.14.6

5.2. Compare the new sendmail.cf with the existing sendmail.cf and modify the new sendmail.cf accordingly (use diff to do the comparison).

NOTICE: it is now "dbm" instead of the old "hash".

5.3. Replace existing sendmail.cf with this new sendmail.cf.8.14.6.

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cp -p sendmail.cf.8.14.6 sendmail.cf

6. Copy submit.cf to /etc/mail

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mv submit.cf submit.cf.8.14.5
cp /work/system_apps/sendmail-8.14.6/cf/cf/submit.cf /etc/mail

Uncomment "MeToo" in submit.cf

7. Backup existing binary

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cd /usr/lib
mv sendmail sendmail.8.14.5_AUTH

8. Backup /etc/mail/statistics if the historic mailstats data wants to be kept.
otherwise, a new statistics file with 0 byte will replace the old one.

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mv /etc/mail/statistics /etc/mail/statistics_ori

9. Install the new binary

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cd /work/system_apps/sendmail-8.14.6
make install

10. Move statistics file back

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mv /etc/mail/statistics_ori /etc/mail/statistics

11. Restart sendmail

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/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/init.d/sendmail start

Start testing sending and receiving email to validate the new mail server.

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:11 pm**

1. Go to /etc/mail/cf/cf

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cd /etc/mail/cf/cf

2. Modify submit.mc
3. Make new submit.cf

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cahtoh02:/etc/mail/cf/cf%make submit.cf
rm -f submit.cf
m4 ../m4/cf.m4 submit.mc > submit.cf || ( rm -f submit.cf && exit 1 )
echo "### submit.mc ###" >>submit.cf
sed -e 's/^/# /' submit.mc >>submit.cf
chmod 444 submit.cf

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Installing Sendmail 8.14.6

Installing Sendmail 8.14.6

Making new submit.cf file