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- /*-
- * @(#)READ_ME 8.25 (Berkeley) 11/19/95
- */
-
- SENDMAIL RELEASE 8
-
- This directory has the latest sendmail software from Berkeley. See
- doc/changes/changes.me for a summary of changes since 5.67.
-
- Report any bugs to sendmail-bugs@sendmail.ORG
-
- ******************************************************************
- ** DO NOT USE MAKE to compile sendmail. Instead, cd src and **
- ** use the "makesendmail" shell script. On many environments **
- ** this will do everything for you, no fuss, no muss. See **
- ** src/READ_ME for more details of compilation. See cf/README **
- ** for details about building a runtime configuration file. **
- ******************************************************************
-
-
- +--------------+
- | MANUAL PAGES |
- +--------------+
-
- The sendmail manual pages use contemporary Berkeley troff macros. If
- your system does not process these manual pages, you can pick up the
- new macros in a BSD Net/2 FTP site (e.g. on FTP.UU.NET, the files
- /systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/me/strip.sed and
- /systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/*).
-
- The strip.sed file is only used in installation.
-
- After installation, edit tmac.doc and tmac.andoc to reflect the
- installation path of the tmac files. Those files contain pointers to
- /usr/share/tmac/, and those pointers are not changed by the `make
- install` process. There's also a bug in those files -- make the
- following patch:
-
- *** tmac.an~ Tue Jul 12 14:29:09 1994
- --- tmac.an Fri Jul 15 13:17:54 1994
- ***************
- *** 50,55 ****
- .de TH
- .rn TH xX
- .so /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.an.old
- ! .TH \\$1 \\$2 \\$3 \\$4 \\$5 \\$6 \\$7 \\$8
- .rm xX
- ..
- --- 50,55 ----
- .de TH
- .rn TH xX
- .so /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.an.old
- ! .TH "\\$1" "\\$2" "\\$3" "\\$4" "\\$5" "\\$6" "\\$7" "\\$8"
- .rm xX
- ..
-
- Rename the existing tmac.an to be tmac.an.old, and rename tmac.andoc
- to be tmac.an.
-
- tmac.an will choose between tmac.an.old, your old macros, or tmac.doc,
- which are the new macros, so that both the new man pages and the
- existing man pages will be translated properly.
-
- I'm also told that the groff distribution from MIT has a tmac.doc
- macro set that is compatible with these macros.
-
-
- +-----------------------+
- | RELATED DOCUMENTATION |
- +-----------------------+
-
- There are other files you should read. Rooted in this directory are:
-
- CHANGES-R5-R8
- Describes changes between Release 5 and Release 8 of sendmail.
- There are some things that may behave somewhat differently.
- For example, the rules governing when :include: files will
- be read have been tightened up for security reasons.
- FAQ
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
- KNOWNBUGS
- Known bugs in the current release. I try to keep this up
- to date -- get the latest version from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU
- in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS.
- RELEASE_NOTES
- A detailed description of the changes in each version. This
- is quite long, but informative.
- src/READ_ME
- Details on compiling and installing sendmail.
- cf/README
- Details on configuring sendmail.
- doc/op/op.me
- The sendmail Installation & Operations Guide. Be warned: if
- you are running this off on SunOS or some other system with an
- old version of -me, you need to add the following macro to the
- macros:
-
- .de sm
- \s-1\\$1\\s0\\$2
- ..
-
- This sets a word in a smaller pointsize.
-
-
- +--------------+
- | RELATED RFCS |
- +--------------+
-
- There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are
- available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil
- (directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC),
- nisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu
- (info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending
- email to one of:
-
- mail-server@nisc.sri.com
- Put "send rfcNNN" in message body
- nis-info@nis.nsf.net
- Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body
- sendrfc@jvnc.net
- Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line
-
- Important RFCs for electronic mail are:
-
- RFC821 SMTP protocol
- RFC822 Mail header format
- RFC974 MX routing
- RFC976 UUCP mail format
- RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974)
- RFC1413 Identification server
- RFC1425 SMTP Service Extensions (ESMTP spec)
- RFC1426 SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
- RFC1427 SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
- RFC1521 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
- RFC1428 Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to
- 8-bit SMTP/MIME
-
- Other standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly
- relevant to sendmail) are:
-
- RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400
- RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822)
-
- Warning to AIX users: this version of sendmail does not implement
- MB, MR, or MG DNS resource records, as defined (as experiments) in
- RFC1035.
-
-
- +-------------------+
- | DATABASE ROUTINES |
- +-------------------+
-
- IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT ****
- use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of
- nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have
- to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public
- FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software
- is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much
- faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will
- also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include
- to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly.
-
- Be sure you remove ndbm.h and ndbm.o from the db distribution. These
- will cause problems with sendmail because sendmail already understands
- about NEWDB and NDBM coexisting.
-
-
- +--------------------+
- | HOST NAME SERVICES |
- +--------------------+
-
- If you are using NIS or /etc/hosts, it is critical that you
- list the long (fully qualified) name somewhere (preferably first) in
- the /etc/hosts file used to build the NIS database. For example, the
- line should read
-
- 128.32.149.68 mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU mastodon
-
- **** NOT ****
-
- 128.32.149.68 mastodon
-
- If you do not include the long name, sendmail will complain loudly
- about ``unable to qualify my own domain name (mastodon) -- using
- short name'' and conclude that your canonical name is the short
- version and use that in messages. The name "mastodon" doesn't mean
- much outside of Berkeley, and so this creates incorrect and unreplyable
- messages.
-
-
- +-------------+
- | USE WITH MH |
- +-------------+
-
- This version of sendmail notices and reports certain kinds of SMTP
- protocol violations that were ignored by older versions. If you
- are running MH you may wish to install the patch in contrib/mh.patch
- that will prevent these warning reports. This patch also works
- with the old version of sendmail, so it's safe to go ahead and
- install it.
-
-
- +----------------+
- | USE WITH IDENT |
- +----------------+
-
- Sendmail 8 supports the IDENT protocol, as defined by RFC 1413.
- No ident server is included with this distribution. I have found
- copies available on:
-
- ftp.lysator.liu.se /pub/ident/servers
- romulus.ucs.uoknor.edu /networking/ident/servers
- ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl /agh/uciagh/network/ident
-
- If you want to run an IDENT server, I suggest getting a copy from
- one of those sites. Versions are available for several different
- systems, including Apollo, BSD, NeXT, AIX, TOPS20, and VMS.
-
-
- +-----------+
- | MAKEFILES |
- +-----------+
-
- The Makefiles in this release use the new Berkeley "make" that is
- available in BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD. If you are using this version
- of make, you may notice one or two places where the Makefile includes
- "../../Makefile.inc". This file is not included with the sendmail
- distribution because it's not part of sendmail. However, it is,
- in toto:
-
- # @(#)Makefile.inc 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
-
- BINDIR?= /usr/sbin
-
- The other directories should all have Makefile.dist files that work
- on the old make, albeit without all the niceties included.
-
- You can also get a new Berkeley make from the Net2 release (available
- on many public FTP archives). This version should also interpret old
- Makefiles, so you could drop it in as your default make.
-
- For more details, see src/READ_ME.
-
-
- +---------------------+
- | DIRECTORY STRUCTURE |
- +---------------------+
-
- The structure of this directory tree is:
-
- cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are
- different than what you've seen before. They are a
- fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail
- (since they use new features).
- contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE
- ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original
- authors if you have problems. (This directory is not
- on the 4.4BSD tape.)
- doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read
- op.me -- it's long, but worth it.
- mail.local The source for the local delivery agent used for 4.4BSD.
- THIS IS NOT PART OF SENDMAIL! and may not compile
- everywhere, since it depends on some 4.4-isms. Warning:
- it does mailbox locking differently than other systems.
- mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of
- sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that,
- beware. This isn't all that useful.
- makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $)
- construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective.
- It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably
- expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats
- using sed scripts before this program will like them.
- But it should be functionally complete.
- praliases A program to print the DBM or NEWDB version of the
- aliases file.
- rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery
- agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by
- other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of
- rmail are probably deficient. RMAIL IS NOT PART OF
- SENDMAIL!!! The 4.4BSD source is included for you to
- look at or try to port to your system. I know it doesn't
- compile on {SunOS, HP-UX, OSF/1, other} (pick one).
- smrsh The "sendmail restricted shell", which can be used as
- a replacement for /bin/sh in the prog mailer to provide
- increased security control. NOT PART OF SENDMAIL!
- src Source for the sendmail program itself.
- test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids).
-