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* @(#)READ_ME 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/7/93
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*/
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SENDMAIL RELEASE 8
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This directory has the latest sendmail software from Berkeley. See
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doc/op/op.me for a summary of changes since 5.67.
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Report any bugs to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU.
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The latest version of sendmail is kept on FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU, directory
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/ucb/sendmail; check there for the latest revision.
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There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are
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available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil
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(directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC),
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nisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu
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(info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending
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email to one of:
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mail-server@nisc.sri.com
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Put "send rfcNNN" in message body
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nis-info@nis.nsf.net
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Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body
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sendrfc@jvnc.net
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Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line
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Important RFCs for electronic mail are:
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RFC821 SMTP protocol
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RFC822 Mail header format
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RFC974 MX routing
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RFC976 UUCP mail format
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RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974)
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RFC1413 Identification server
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RFC1341 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
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Other standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly
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relevant to sendmail) are:
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RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400
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RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822)
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Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons the Makefiles are for the new
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Berkeley "make" and will not work on the old, traditional make. I urge
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you to get this make from Net2 (available on many public FTP archives).
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Failing that, some directories have a "Makefile.dist" that will work on
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older versions of make (but don't have the niceties included).
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Similar comments apply to the man pages -- they use the new Berkeley
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-mandoc macros instead of the -man macros. You can get these from
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Net2 as well.
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IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT ****
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use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of
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nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have
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to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public
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FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software
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is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much
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faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will
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also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include
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to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly.
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The structure of this directory tree is:
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cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are
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different than what you've seen before. They are a
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fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail
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(since they use new features).
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contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE
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ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original
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authors if you have problems. (This directory is not
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on the 4.4BSD tape.)
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doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read
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op.me -- it's long, but worth it.
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mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of
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sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that,
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beware. This isn't all that useful.
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makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $)
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construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective.
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It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably
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expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats
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using sed scripts before this program will like them.
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But it should be functionally complete.
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praliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file.
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It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley
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DB format (which we are using).
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rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery
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agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by
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other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of
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rmail are probably deficient.
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src Source for the sendmail program itself.
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