As sendmail evolves, it will continue to add new abilities to the qf file. To protect old versions of sendmail from wrongly misinterpreting new configuration files, the V line has been introduced. Note that prior to V8.7 sendmail there was no V line. The V line, and qf fileversion numbers for more modern implementations of sendmail , are shown in Table 11-8. Table 11-8. qf file version numbers
If the version found in a qf file is greater than that currently supported by sendmail , the following error will be printed if in verbose mode: Version number in qf ( bad ) greater than max ( max ) and the following message will be logged: Losing qf file unsupported queue file version The bad qf file will then be turned into a Qf file ( marked as lost). |