1/*- 2 * @(#)READ_ME 8.10 (Berkeley) 04/13/94 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 116Warning to AIX users: this version of sendmail does not implement 117MB, MR, or MG DNS resource records, as defined as experiments in 118RFC883. 119 120 121+-------------------+ 122| DATABASE ROUTINES | 123+-------------------+ 124 125IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT **** 126use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of 127nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have 128to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public 129FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software 130is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much 131faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will 132also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include 133to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly. 134 135Be sure you remove ndbm.h and ndbm.o from the db distribution. These 136will cause problems with sendmail because sendmail already understands 137about NEWDB and NDBM coexisting. 138 139 140+--------------------+ 141| Host Name Services | 142+--------------------+ 143 144If you compile with NAMED_BIND (the default) sendmail will use 145DNS (the Domain Name System) for most host name lookups. If 146you do not have DNS running at your site you may have to turn 147this off to cause sendmail to use NIS and/or the /etc/hosts file. 148In particular, on SunOS you have to choose to use DNS (which 149you should do if you are attached to the Internet, otherwise 150you lose MX records, which are required) or NIS -- there is no 151way to try both. 152 153If you are using NIS and /etc/hosts, it is critical that you 154list the long (fully qualified) name first in the /etc/hosts file 155used to build the NIS database. For example, the line should read 156 157 128.32.149.68 mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU mastodon 158 159**** NOT **** 160 161 128.32.149.68 mastodon mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU 162 163If you use the wrong order, sendmail will conclude that your 164canonical name is the short version and use that in messages. 165The name "mastodon" doesn't mean much outside of Berkeley, 166and so this creates incorrect and unreplyable messages. 167 168 169+-------------+ 170| USE WITH MH | 171+-------------+ 172 173This version of sendmail notices and reports certain kinds of SMTP 174protocol violations that were ignored by older versions. If you 175are running MH you may wish to install the patch in contrib/mh.patch 176that will prevent these warning reports. This patch also works 177with the old version of sendmail, so it's safe to go ahead and 178install it. 179 180 181+-----------+ 182| MAKEFILES | 183+-----------+ 184 185The Makefiles in this release use the new Berkeley "make" that is 186available in BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD. If you are using this version 187of make, you may notice one or two places where the Makefile includes 188"../../Makefile.inc". This file is not included with the sendmail 189distribution because it's not part of sendmail. However, it is, 190in toto: 191 192 # @(#)Makefile.inc 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 193 194 BINDIR?= /usr/sbin 195 196The other directories should all have Makefile.dist files that work 197on the old make, albeit without all the niceties included. 198 199You can also get a new Berkeley make from the Net2 release (available 200on many public FTP archives). This version should also interpret old 201Makefiles, so you could drop it in as your default make. 202 203For more details, see src/READ_ME. 204 205 206+---------------------+ 207| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE | 208+---------------------+ 209 210The structure of this directory tree is: 211 212cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are 213 different than what you've seen before. They are a 214 fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail 215 (since they use new features). 216contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE 217 ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original 218 authors if you have problems. (This directory is not 219 on the 4.4BSD tape.) 220doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read 221 op.me -- it's long, but worth it. 222mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of 223 sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that, 224 beware. This isn't all that useful. 225makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $) 226 construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective. 227 It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably 228 expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats 229 using sed scripts before this program will like them. 230 But it should be functionally complete. 231praliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file. 232 It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley 233 DB format (which we are using). 234rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery 235 agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by 236 other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of 237 rmail are probably deficient. 238src Source for the sendmail program itself. 239test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids). 240