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Port details

mail/sendmail 8.18.2_1

Reliable, highly configurable mail transfer agent with utilities

Port info

Maintainer
dinoex@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 8.18.2_1
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 8.18.2_1 · 61f6338738
Quarterly
2026Q4: 8.18.2_1
WWW
https://www.sendmail.org/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install sendmail
installs 8.18.2_1 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 8.18.2_1
Port
# cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/mail/sendmail config  # change options first
Size
1.3 MiB download · 4.4 MiB installed
Depends on
security/cyrus-sasl2 2.1.28_6, security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd 2.1.28_4
License
Sendmail
Creates
user smmsp, group smmsp
Options
13 of 21 on in the package: BLOCKLISTD DANE DOCS IPV6 LA MILTER NIS PICKY_HELO_CHECK SASL SASLAUTHD SEM SHMEM TLS
Show the 8 options that are off
BDB CYRUSLOOKUP GDBM LDAP MTA_STS SMTPUTF8 SOCKETMAP TLS_CERT_CHAIN
pkg-message
Shown after installing
you should add in /etc/make.conf:
SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=	/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf

To deliver all local mail to your mailhub, edit the last line of submit.mc:
FEATURE(`msp','[mailhub.do.main]`)dnl

To update your configuration look at /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf/README.
---------------------------------------------------
To use the binaries supplied by the port you should add the following lines
to your sendmail.mc file before any mailer or feature definition:

define(`confEBINDIR', `/usr/local/libexec')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/local/bin/uux')dnl

---------------------------------------------------
To activate sendmail as your default mailer, run:
$ cd /usr/local/etc/mail && cp mailer.conf.sendmail mailer.conf

Your '/usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf' should look like this:
#
# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
#
sendmail	/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail	/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq		/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases	/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
hoststat	/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
purgestat	/usr/local/sbin/sendmail

You may also need to update /etc/rc.conf.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 168.18.2_18.18.2_1–
FreeBSD 158.18.2_18.18.2_1–
FreeBSD 148.18.2_18.18.2_18.18.2_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 158.18.2_18.18.2_1–
FreeBSD 148.18.2_18.18.2_18.18.2_1

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 8.18.2_1.

Fixed (1)

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Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (306)

Dirk Meyer (dinoex) · 8.11.2
Clean up bulding messages SENDMAIL_WITH_MILTER support sample filter is build. GPL attachmentfilter ist build.
bd8f0fd12f
Ying-Chieh Liao (ijliao) · 8.11.2
New Build-Option:  SENDMAIL_WITH_SASL

PR:		24625
Submitted by:	MAINTAINER
97359b1001
James E. Housley (jeh) · 8.11.2
Update to 8.11.2 New Variable in Makefile for shorter Lines. Patches for Manpages updated. PATH was already in CCOPTS when needed, config reduced.

PR:		23977
Submitted by:	Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> MAINTAINER
0ac9c6b641
Will Andrews (will) · 8.11.1_1
Small improvements for remote build.  The empty config directory is now removed.  Use of macro APPENDDEF to allow confCOPTS.  Also add TCPWRAPPER and IPv6 support for FreeBSD >= 4.0, as well as optional TSL support, patches for rmail & mail.local, and other changes.

PR:		22619
Submitted by:	MAINTAINER
4f81d10ca9
Gregory Neil Shapiro (gshapiro) · 8.11.1
Use ${PKGMESSAGE} instead of ${PKGDIR}/pkg-message.

Submitted by:	Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org>
03a55f63ec
Gregory Neil Shapiro (gshapiro) · 8.11.1
New port for the sendmail MTA.

PR:		18415
Submitted by:	Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org>
Reviewed by:	will
cef9c4b2b8