| -v | The -v command-line switch, for the Build program, specifies the build variant arguments that are passed to the confBLDVARIANT Build macro (V8.12 and later). |
| Section 5.2 | The editmap program makes changing database files easy, without the need to rebuild them (V8.12 and later). |
| -h | The -h command-line switch allows mail.local to deliver mail to a file in each user 's home directory (V8.12 and later). |
| Section 5.4.2 | The output of the mailstats program has been expanded to include additional fields (V8.9, then V8.12 and later). |
| -P | With mailstats , the new -P command-line switch prints in the same program-friendly form as -p , but does so without zeroing the statistics file (V8.12 and later). |
| -t | The -t command-line switch with makemap allows you to specify an alternative to whitespace as a field separator (V8.12 and later). |
| Section 5.8.1 | The instructions for building and installing the smrsh program have changed (V8.9 and later). |
| Section 5.8.4 | The smrsh program now allows the && and expressions to exist inside ~/.forward files (V8.10 and later). |
| -C | The vacation program now reads the sendmail program's configuration file to locate the value of the MailboxDatabase option (MailboxDatabase). The vacation program's -C command-line switch can be used to select a different configuration file (V8.12 and later). |
| -d | The vacation program's -d command-line switch can now be used to print, rather than log, all errors (V8.12 and later). |
| -l (lowercase L) | The vacation program's -l command-line switch allows you to list the contents of the vacation database (V8.12 and later). |
| -t | The vacation program's -t command-line switch is now recognized and ignored (V8.12 and later). |
| -t | The vacation program's -U command-line switch allows you to turn off the lookup of the user identity in the passwd (5) file (V8.12 and later). |