compile sendmail w/MIME7TO8_OLD?

[dkol...@olearycomputers.com]

Hey;

I'm being asked to compile sendmail w/the MIME7TO8_OLD compile time option set to zero for reasons that are, quite honestly, more political than technical.

Despite a rather lengthy, if somewhat sporadic, history with sendmail, I've never had to do anything like this before.

Is it as simple as:

cd ${sm_src_dir}
./Build "MIME7TO8_OLD=0"

will that do the trick or do I need to specify this parameter somewhere else?

Any help, greatly appreciated.

Doug O'Leary

[Claus Aßmann]

Doug O'Leary wrote:

> I'm being asked to compile sendmail w/the MIME7TO8_OLD compile time option set to zero for reasons that are,
> quite honestly, more political than technical.

> will that do the trick or do I need to specify this parameter somewhere else?

See sendmail/README:

| BUILDING SENDMAIL |
...
It's also possible to create local site configuration in the file
site.config.m4 (or another file settable with the -f flag). This
file contains M4 definitions for various compilation values; the
most useful are:

confMAPDEF -D flags to specify database types to be included
(see below)
confENVDEF -D flags to specify other environment information
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


See the file for details.