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2			S E N D M A I L
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4Presumably by the time you get to this READ_ME file, you will have
5already read the tape in, or will have received this distribution as
6part of 4.2bsd.  If you do not yet have the distribution online, read
7the tape in now -- you will need about one megabyte to hold the tape.
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9The first thing you should look at is the documentation.  The two
10critical documents are "doc/intro.me" and "doc/op.me".  Read both
11of these before proceeding with your installation.  If you have read
12these before, you should still read through the second one again
13anyhow, since the installation procedures change occasionally.
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15A brief tour:
16	FILES	  A list of the files on the tape.
17	Makefile  A Makefile that will do a vanilla install for you.
18	adb	  A set of adb(1) scripts for printing out certain
19		  sendmail data structures.
20	adm	  Administrativia.
21	aux	  Files that represent programs that are not really
22		  "part" of sendmail, or old versions of some files
23		  in src for use by people on other system types.
24	cf	  The configuration files for Berkeley, plus a few
25		  prototype configurations for basic installation
26		  types.
27	doc	  The documentation.
28	include	  The include files used by more than just the sendmail
29		  program itself.
30	lib	  Library routines used by sendmail, but not really
31		  "part" of sendmail itself; these might be candidates
32		  for libc.a.
33	md	  Some m4 files used to isolate machine dependencies.
34	src	  The source for the sendmail program itself.
35	test	  Some files used for testing -- mostly these are
36		  shell files intended as the targets for aliasing.
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38The following are the known major problems and their Problem Report
39number:
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41012, 043	Names of files and programs cannot have upper case letters
42		in them -- these get mapped to lower case due to the
43		case mapping feature.
44178		Because of the different syntaxes used in envelopes versus
45		headers, we will occasionally allow syntactically incorrect
46		headers go out.
47226		Quote interpretation may be incorrect -- this is not well
48		defined in the protocols.
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50Due to my present circumstances, I am unable to provide a formal
51level of support for this system.  However, I will make whatever
52attempt I can to answer a reasonable number of questions.  Since
53the company I am working for is not working in this area, and has
54indulged me tremendously in letting me work on this at all, I regret
55that I am unable to accept phone calls.  I can be contacted as:
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57		OLD			NEW
58    Arpanet:	eric@Berkeley		eric@Berkeley.ARPA
59    UUCP:	ucbvax!eric		eric@ucbvax.UUCP
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61Eric Allman
62Britton-Lee, Inc.
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64@(#)READ_ME	3.2		05/20/83
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