Internet Services Delta Manual for HP-UX 11i Version 1.6

#O Timeout.resolver.retry.normal=4

• DataFileBufferSize

This option can be used to control the maximum size of a memory-buffered data (df) file before

a disk-based file is used. The default setting for this option is:

#O DataFileBufferSize=4096

• XscriptFileBufferSize

This option can be used to control the maximum size of a memory-buffered (xf) transcript

before a disk-based file is used. The default setting for this option is:

#O XscriptFileBufferSize=4096

• MaxAliasRecursion

The maximum depth of an alias recursion can be specified in the sendmail.cf file using this

option. The default setting for this option is:

#O MaxAliasRecursion=10

• PidFile

The location of the ProcessId (Pid) file can be defined using this option. The default setting for

this option is:

#O PidFile=/etc/mail/sendmail.pid

/etc/mail/sendmail.pid will be taken as the default file, if this option is not set. If you

choose a directory other than /etc/mail for the pidfile, please ensure that the directory has

proper write permissions as those of /etc/mail.

• ProcessTitlePrefix

The prefix string for the process title shown in 'ps' listings can be specified using this option.

By default, this option is commented. For example, if you set this option in the sendmail.cf file

as:

#O ProcessTitlePrefix=HPUX_Sendmail-8.11.1

The command 'ps -ef | grep sendmail | grep -v grep' might show 'sendmail:

HPUX_Sendmail-8.11.1: accepting connections' in the output.

• TrustedUser

This option can be used to specify a user, who can own important files instead of root. This

option necessitates 'fchown'. The default setting for this option is:

TrustedUser=root

• MaxMimeHeaderLength

The size of the MIME headers and parameters within those headers can be set using this

option. This can also be used to protect Mail User Agents (MUA) from buffer overflow attacks.

The default setting for this option is:

#O MaxMimeHeaderLength=10

• DeadLetterDrop

This option can be used to specify the location of the system-wide dead.letter file, which was

formerly hardcoded to /var/tmp/dead.letter. The default setting for this option in this

version is:

O DeadLetterDrop=/var/tmp/dead.letter

Please note that Sendmail will not save mails anywhere if this option is not set.

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