[Esd-l] sanitizer and sendmail V8.12.4

[John D. Hardin]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Michael Meltzer wrote:

> hello,
> 
> in  sanitizer  sendmail option -U is set on line  249 (1.135):
> 
> # MTA command line options when generating messages
> # get recipient(s) from command line
> MTA_FLAGS_CMDLN=${MTA_FLAGS_CMDLN:-"-U"}
> 
> but in sendmail since version 12 this option has been omited as
> far as I know.
> 
> On a Sun box I get errors "illegal Option".
> 
> Can I affect this Option from outside the sanitizer ?

Yes, you can. This is documented on the "configuring" page.

Just override $MTA_FLAGS_CMDLN with whatever's appropriate. If you
simply want to omit the -U, do this:

   MTA_FLAGS_CMDLN=" "



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