While I was poking around, tuning the build process for crimson
under 5.3, I discovered the NOINET6 flag in make.conf.
This ensures that the base sendmail (among other programs) is
compiled without IPv6 support. I have to run without IPv6 due to sendmail's interaction with my Alcatel
router.
Setting this make flag meant I could dispense with yet another port. Now, how could I rebuild just sendmail on the new 5.3 system? A quick google revealed the answer:
# cd /usr/src/lib/libsm # make obj && make depend && make # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil # make obj && make depend && make # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail # make obj && make depend && make && make install
Once the new base sendmail was installed, I tested the DNS queries,
using /usr/sbin/sendmail -bt -d8.8 options. Yep, it worked
just fine; DNS "A" queries were being sent by sendmail. I therefore
stopped the running sendmail version; pkg_delete'd the sendmail from
ports; set the sendmail_enable flag in /etc/rc.conf to
"YES", and issued make start in the /etc/mail
directory. Now, one less port to process.
