1/*- 2 * @(#)READ_ME 8.8 (Berkeley) 01/04/94 3 */ 4 5 SENDMAIL RELEASE 8 6 7This directory has the latest sendmail software from Berkeley. See 8doc/op/op.me for a summary of changes since 5.67. 9 10Report any bugs to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU. 11 12The latest version of sendmail is kept on FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU, directory 13/ucb/sendmail; check there for the latest revision. 14 15 16+--------------+ 17| MANUAL PAGES | 18+--------------+ 19 20The sendmail manual pages use contemporary Berkeley troff macros. If 21your system does not process these manual pages, you can pick up the 22new macros in a BSD Net/2 FTP site (e.g. on FTP.UU.NET, the files 23/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/me/strip.sed and 24/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/*). 25 26The strip.sed file is only used in installation. 27 28After installation, edit tmac.doc and tmac.andoc to reflect the 29installation path of the tmac files. Those files contain pointers to 30/usr/share/tmac/, and those pointers are not changed by the `make 31install` process. 32 33Rename the existing tmac.an to be tmac.an.old, and rename tmac.andoc 34to be tmac.an. 35 36tmac.an will choose between tmac.an.old, your old macros, or tmac.doc, 37which are the new macros, so that both the new man pages and the 38existing man pages will be translated properly. 39 40I'm also told that the groff distribution from MIT has a tmac.doc 41macro set that is compatible with these macros. 42 43 44+-----------------------+ 45| RELATED DOCUMENTATION | 46+-----------------------+ 47 48There are other files you should read. Rooted in this directory are: 49 50 CHANGES-R5-R8 51 Describes changes between Release 5 and Release 8 of sendmail. 52 There are some things that may behave somewhat differently. 53 For example, the rules governing when :include: files will 54 be read have been tightened up for security reasons. 55 FAQ 56 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. 57 KNOWNBUGS 58 Known bugs in the current release. I try to keep this up 59 to date -- get the latest version from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU 60 in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS. 61 RELEASE_NOTES 62 A detailed description of the changes in each version. This 63 is quite long, but informative. 64 src/READ_ME 65 Details on compiling and installing sendmail. 66 cf/README 67 Details on configuring sendmail. 68 doc/op/op.me 69 The sendmail Installation & Operations Guide. Be warned: if 70 you are running this off on SunOS or some other system with an 71 old version of -me, you need to add the following macro to the 72 macros: 73 74 .de sm 75 \s-1\\$1\\s0\\$2 76 .. 77 78 This sets a word in a smaller pointsize. 79 80 81+--------------+ 82| RELATED RFCS | 83+--------------+ 84 85There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are 86available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil 87(directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC), 88nisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu 89(info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending 90email to one of: 91 92 mail-server@nisc.sri.com 93 Put "send rfcNNN" in message body 94 nis-info@nis.nsf.net 95 Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body 96 sendrfc@jvnc.net 97 Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line 98 99Important RFCs for electronic mail are: 100 101 RFC821 SMTP protocol 102 RFC822 Mail header format 103 RFC974 MX routing 104 RFC976 UUCP mail format 105 RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974) 106 RFC1413 Identification server 107 RFC1341 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 108 RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways 109 110Other standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly 111relevant to sendmail) are: 112 113 RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400 114 RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822) 115 116Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons the Makefiles are for the new 117Berkeley "make" and will not work on the old, traditional make. I urge 118you to get this make from Net2 (available on many public FTP archives). 119Failing that, some directories have a "Makefile.dist" that will work on 120older versions of make (but don't have the niceties included). 121 122 123+-------------------+ 124| DATABASE ROUTINES | 125+-------------------+ 126 127IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT **** 128use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of 129nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have 130to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public 131FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software 132is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much 133faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will 134also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include 135to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly. 136 137 138+-------------+ 139| USE WITH MH | 140+-------------+ 141 142This version of sendmail notices and reports certain kinds of SMTP 143protocol violations that were ignored by older versions. If you 144are running MH you may wish to install the patch in contrib/mh.patch 145that will prevent these warning reports. This patch also works 146with the old version of sendmail, so it's safe to go ahead and 147install it. 148 149 150+-----------+ 151| MAKEFILES | 152+-----------+ 153 154The Makefiles in this release use the new Berkeley "make" that is 155available in BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD. If you are using this version 156of make, you may notice one or two places where the Makefile includes 157"../../Makefile.inc". This file is not included with the sendmail 158distribution because it's not part of sendmail. However, it is, 159in toto: 160 161 # @(#)Makefile.inc 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 162 163 BINDIR?= /usr/sbin 164 165The other directories should all have Makefile.dist files that work 166on the old make. For more details, see src/READ_ME. 167 168 169+---------------------+ 170| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE | 171+---------------------+ 172 173The structure of this directory tree is: 174 175cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are 176 different than what you've seen before. They are a 177 fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail 178 (since they use new features). 179contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE 180 ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original 181 authors if you have problems. (This directory is not 182 on the 4.4BSD tape.) 183doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read 184 op.me -- it's long, but worth it. 185mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of 186 sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that, 187 beware. This isn't all that useful. 188makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $) 189 construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective. 190 It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably 191 expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats 192 using sed scripts before this program will like them. 193 But it should be functionally complete. 194praliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file. 195 It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley 196 DB format (which we are using). 197rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery 198 agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by 199 other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of 200 rmail are probably deficient. 201src Source for the sendmail program itself. 202test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids). 203