1/*- 2 * @(#)READ_ME 8.7 (Berkeley) 12/13/93 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 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 69 70+--------------+ 71| RELATED RFCS | 72+--------------+ 73 74There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are 75available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil 76(directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC), 77nisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu 78(info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending 79email to one of: 80 81 mail-server@nisc.sri.com 82 Put "send rfcNNN" in message body 83 nis-info@nis.nsf.net 84 Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body 85 sendrfc@jvnc.net 86 Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line 87 88Important RFCs for electronic mail are: 89 90 RFC821 SMTP protocol 91 RFC822 Mail header format 92 RFC974 MX routing 93 RFC976 UUCP mail format 94 RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974) 95 RFC1413 Identification server 96 RFC1341 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 97 RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways 98 99Other standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly 100relevant to sendmail) are: 101 102 RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400 103 RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822) 104 105Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons the Makefiles are for the new 106Berkeley "make" and will not work on the old, traditional make. I urge 107you to get this make from Net2 (available on many public FTP archives). 108Failing that, some directories have a "Makefile.dist" that will work on 109older versions of make (but don't have the niceties included). 110 111 112+-------------------+ 113| DATABASE ROUTINES | 114+-------------------+ 115 116IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT **** 117use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of 118nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have 119to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public 120FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software 121is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much 122faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will 123also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include 124to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly. 125 126 127+-------------+ 128| USE WITH MH | 129+-------------+ 130 131This version of sendmail notices and reports certain kinds of SMTP 132protocol violations that were ignored by older versions. If you 133are running MH you may wish to install the patch in contrib/mh.patch 134that will prevent these warning reports. This patch also works 135with the old version of sendmail, so it's safe to go ahead and 136install it. 137 138 139+---------------------+ 140| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE | 141+---------------------+ 142 143The structure of this directory tree is: 144 145cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are 146 different than what you've seen before. They are a 147 fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail 148 (since they use new features). 149contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE 150 ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original 151 authors if you have problems. (This directory is not 152 on the 4.4BSD tape.) 153doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read 154 op.me -- it's long, but worth it. 155mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of 156 sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that, 157 beware. This isn't all that useful. 158makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $) 159 construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective. 160 It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably 161 expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats 162 using sed scripts before this program will like them. 163 But it should be functionally complete. 164praliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file. 165 It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley 166 DB format (which we are using). 167rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery 168 agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by 169 other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of 170 rmail are probably deficient. 171src Source for the sendmail program itself. 172test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids). 173