1/*- 2 * @(#)READ_ME 8.2 (Berkeley) 07/19/93 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 15There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are 16available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil 17(directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC), 18nisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu 19(info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending 20email to one of: 21 22 mail-server@nisc.sri.com 23 Put "send rfcNNN" in message body 24 nis-info@nis.nsf.net 25 Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body 26 sendrfc@jvnc.net 27 Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line 28 29Important RFCs for electronic mail are: 30 31 RFC821 SMTP protocol 32 RFC822 Mail header format 33 RFC974 MX routing 34 RFC976 UUCP mail format 35 RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974) 36 RFC1413 Identification server 37 RFC1341 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 38 RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways 39 40Other standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly 41relevant to sendmail) are: 42 43 RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400 44 RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822) 45 46Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons the Makefiles are for the new 47Berkeley "make" and will not work on the old, traditional make. I urge 48you to get this make from Net2 (available on many public FTP archives). 49Failing that, some directories have a "Makefile.dist" that will work on 50older versions of make (but don't have the niceties included). 51 52Similar comments apply to the man pages -- they use the new Berkeley 53-mandoc macros instead of the -man macros. You can get these from 54Net2 as well. 55 56IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT **** 57use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of 58nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have 59to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public 60FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software 61is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much 62faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will 63also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include 64to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly. 65 66The structure of this directory tree is: 67 68cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are 69 different than what you've seen before. They are a 70 fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail 71 (since they use new features). 72contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE 73 ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original 74 authors if you have problems. (This directory is not 75 on the 4.4BSD tape.) 76doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read 77 op.me -- it's long, but worth it. 78mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of 79 sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that, 80 beware. This isn't all that useful. 81makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $) 82 construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective. 83 It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably 84 expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats 85 using sed scripts before this program will like them. 86 But it should be functionally complete. 87praliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file. 88 It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley 89 DB format (which we are using). 90rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery 91 agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by 92 other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of 93 rmail are probably deficient. 94src Source for the sendmail program itself. 95test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids). 96