What's New With Mail Services

This section provides information about new features in the Solaris 10 release and the Solaris 10 1/06 release.

Changes in the Solaris 10 1/06 Release

Starting in the Solaris 10 1/06 release, sendmail supports SMTP using Transport Layer Security (TLS). For more information, see the following:

• Support for Running SMTP With TLS in Version 8.13 of sendmail

• Setting SMTP to Use TLS

For a complete list of features in the Solaris 10 1/06 release, see Solaris Express, Developer Edition What’s New.

Changes in the Solaris 10 Release

Starting in the Solaris 10 release, sendmail version 8.13 is the default. For information about version 8.13 and other changes, see the following:

• Flags Used and Not Used to Compile sendmail

• MILTER, Mail Filter API for sendmail

• Versions of the Configuration File

• Enhancement for vacation Utility

• Contents of the /etc/mail/cf Directory

• Changes in Version 8.13 of sendmail

• Support for TCP Wrappers From Version 8.12 of sendmail

Additionally, the mail service is managed by the Service Management Facility. Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or restarting, can be performed by using the svcadm command. The service's status can be queried by using the svcs command. For more information about the Service Management Facility, see the smf(5) man page and Chapter 14, Managing Services (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.