Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) ships with the postfix Mail Transport Agent (MTA) by default. To use Sendmail instead, compile it from source. Older versions of Mac OS X shipped with more or less misconfigured versions of Sendmail, as documented below.
- Sendmail on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
- Sendmail and SMTP AUTH on Mac OS X 10.2.
- Sendmail 8.12.2 (OS X 10.2 “Jaguar”)
- Sendmail 8.12.2 (OS X 10.1.5)
- Sendmail 8.10.2 (OS X up to and including 10.1.4)
Sendmail in 10.2 is very similar to the one shipped with 10.1.5. However, the default configuration files and crontab setup are different, so the older notes for 10.1.5 are not perfect.
These pages do not cover any versions of sendmail that ship with Mac OS X Server; I only have access to the regular Mac OS X release. To determine what the version of Sendmail is and the release of OS X, use the following commands.
$ sendmail -d0 < /dev/null | grep -i vers
Version 8.12.11
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.2
BuildVersion: 7D24
Related
- Sendmail Configurations
- Sendmail Enabler - application to configure basic operation of sendmail.
- SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS - presentation of the said mail protocols and their implementation in the Sendmail MTA.
- Relaying with TLS in Sendmail - how I configure my OS X laptop to do roaming Transport Layer Security (TLS) encrypted mail relaying through my main mail server.
