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4a51b074 3 NEW SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILES
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4a51b074 5 Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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37498540 7 @(#)README 8.59 (Berkeley) %G%
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4a51b074 10This document describes the sendmail configuration files being used
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11at Berkeley. These use features in the new (R8) sendmail; they will
12not work on other versions.
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14These configuration files are probably not as general as previous
6fb312a3 15versions, and don't handle as many of the weird cases automagically.
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16I was able to simplify by them for two reasons. First, the network
17has become more consistent -- for example, at this point, everyone
18on the internet is supposed to be running a name server, so hacks to
19handle NIC-registered hosts can go away. Second, I assumed that a
20subdomain would be running SMTP internally -- UUCP is presumed to be
21a long-haul protocol. I realize that this is not universal, but it
22does describe the vast majority of sites with which I am familiar,
23including those outside the US.
24
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25Of course, the downside of this is that if you do live in a weird
26world, things are going to get weirder for you. I'm sorry about that,
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27but at the time we at Berkeley had a problem, and it seemed like the
28right thing to do.
29
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30This package requires a post-V7 version of m4; if you are running the
314.2bsd, SysV.2, or 7th Edition version, I suggest finding a friend with
32a newer version. You can m4-expand on their system, then run locally.
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33SunOS's /usr/5bin/m4 or BSD-Net/2's m4 both work. GNU m4 version 1.1
34also works. Unfortunately, I'm told that the M4 on BSDI 1.0 doesn't
35work -- you'll have to use a Net/2 or GNU version.
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a33031f5 37IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BERKELEY MAKE, don't despair! Just run
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38"m4 foo.mc > foo.cf" -- that should be all you need. There is also
39a fairly crude (but functional) Makefile.dist that works on the
40old version of make.
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42To get started, you may want to look at tcpproto.mc (for TCP-only
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43sites), uucpproto.mc (for UUCP-only sites), and clientproto.mc (for
44clusters of clients using a single mail host). Others are versions
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45that we use at Berkeley, although not all are in current use. For
46example, ucbarpa has gone away, but I've left ucbarpa.mc in because
47it demonstrates some interesting techniques.
48
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49I'm not pretending that this README describes everything that these
50configuration files can do; clever people can probably tweak them
51to great effect. But it should get you started.
52
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53*******************************************************************
54*** BE SURE YOU CUSTOMIZE THESE FILES! They have some ***
55*** Berkeley-specific assumptions built in, such as the name ***
56*** of our UUCP-relay. You'll want to create your own domain ***
57*** description, and use that in place of domain/Berkeley.m4. ***
58*******************************************************************
59
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61+--------------------------+
62| INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE |
63+--------------------------+
64
65Configuration files are contained in the subdirectory "cf", with a
66suffix ".mc". They must be run through "m4" to produce a ".cf" file.
67
e9631f65 68Let's examine a typical .mc file (cf/cs-hpux9.mc):
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70 divert(-1)
71 #
72 # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman
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73 # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
74 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
7ace9d88 75 #
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76 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
77 # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
78 # are met:
79 # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
80 # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
81 # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
82 # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
83 # the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
84 # distribution.
85 # 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
86 # software # must display the following acknowledgement:
87 # This product includes software developed by the University of
88 # California, Berkeley and its contributors.
89 # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its
90 # contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
91 # from this software without specific prior written permission.
92 #
93 # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS''
94 # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
95 # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
96 # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS
97 # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
98 # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
99 # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
100 # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
101 # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
102 # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
103 # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
104 #
105
106 #
107 # This is a Berkeley-specific configuration file for HP-UX 9.x.
108 # It applies only the the Computer Science Division at Berkeley,
109 # and should not be used elsewhere. It is provided on the sendmail
110 # distribution as a sample only. To create your own configuration
111 # file, create an appropriate domain file in ../domain, change the
112 # `DOMAIN' macro below to reference that file, and copy the result
113 # to a name of your own choosing.
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115
4a51b074 116The divert(-1) will delete the crud in the resulting output file.
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117The copyright notice can be replace by whatever your lawyers require;
118our lawyers require the one that I've included in my files. A copyleft
119is a copyright by another name.
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120
121The next line MUST be
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123 include(`../m4/cf.m4')
124
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125This will pull in the M4 macros you will need to make sense of
126everything else. As the saying goes, don't think about it, just
127do it. If you don't do it, don't bother reading the rest of this
128file.
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8897fcb1 130 VERSIONID(`<SCCS or RCS version id>')
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132VERSIONID is a macro that stuffs the version information into the
133resulting file. We use SCCS; you could use RCS, something else, or
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134omit it completely. This is not the same as the version id included
135in SMTP greeting messages -- this is defined in m4/version.m4.
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137 OSTYPE(hpux9)dnl
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139You must specify an OSTYPE to properly configure things such as the
140pathname of the help and status files, the flags needed for the local
141mailer, and other important things. If you omit it, you will get an
142error when you try to build the configuration. Look at the ostype
143directory for the list of known operating system types.
144
145 DOMAIN(CS.Berkeley.EDU)dnl
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147This example is specific to the Computer Science Division at Berkeley.
148You can use "DOMAIN(generic)" to get a sufficiently bland definition
149that may well work for you, or you can create a customized domain
150definition appropriate for your environment.
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e9631f65 152 MAILER(local)
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155These describe the mailers used at the default CS site site. The
156local mailer is always included automatically.
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159+--------+
160| OSTYPE |
161+--------+
162
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163You MUST define an operating system environment, or the configuration
164file build will puke. There are several environments available; look
165at the "ostype" directory for the current list. This macro changes
166things like the location of the alias file and queue directory. Some
167of these files are identical to one another.
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169Operating system definitions are usually easy to write. They may define
170the following variables (everything defaults, so an ostype file may be
171empty). Unfortunately, the list of configuration-supported systems is
172not as broad as the list of source-supported systems, since many of
173the source contributors do not include corresponding ostype files.
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174
175ALIAS_FILE [/etc/aliases] The location of the text version
00d0b5bf 176 of the alias file(s). It can be a comma-separated
7b97409d 177 list of names (but be sure you quote values with
e4c0b131 178 commas in them -- for example, use
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179 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `a,b')
180 to get "a" and "b" both listed as alias files;
181 otherwise the define() primitive only sees "a").
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182HELP_FILE [/usr/lib/sendmail.hf] The name of the file
183 containing information printed in response to
184 the SMTP HELP command.
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185QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/mqueue] The directory containing
186 queue files.
187STATUS_FILE [/etc/sendmail.st] The file containing status
188 information.
bee9d799 189LOCAL_MAILER_PATH [/bin/mail] The program used to deliver local mail.
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190LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS [rmn] The flags used by the local mailer. The
191 flags lsDFM are always included.
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192LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS [mail -d $u] The arguments passed to deliver local
193 mail.
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194LOCAL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If defined, the maximum size of local
195 mail that you are willing to accept.
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196LOCAL_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data
197 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to the
198 local mailer and which are converted to MIME will be
199 labelled with this character set.
bee9d799 200LOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email.
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201LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu] The flags used by the shell mailer. The
202 flags lsDFM are always included.
203LOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog"
204 mail.
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205LOCAL_SHELL_DIR [$z:/] The directory search path in which the
206 shell should run.
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207USENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program
208 used to submit news.
209USENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rlsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer.
210USENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the
211 usenet mailer.
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212USENET_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size of messages that will
213 be accepted by the usenet mailer.
5dd53c38 214SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default
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215 flags are `mDFMUX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the
216 "esmtp" mailer adds `a' and "smtp8" adds `8'.
4e444ec8 217SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will
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218 be transported using the smtp, smtp8, or esmtp
219 mailers.
220SMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer.
221 About the only reason you would want to change this
222 would be to change the default port.
223ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer.
224SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer.
225RELAY_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer.
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226SMTP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data
227 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of
228 the SMTP mailers and which are converted to MIME will
229 be labelled with this character set.
5dd53c38 230UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default
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231 flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for uucp-new mailer,
232 minus `U' for uucp-dom mailer).
baf83fd6 233UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$g -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments
d8b2ad36 234 passed to the UUCP mailer.
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1c61e291 236 transmission by the UUCP mailers.
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237UUCP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data
238 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of
239 the UUCP mailers and which are converted to MIME will
240 be labelled with this character set.
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241FAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to
242 submit FAX messages.
243FAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
244 transmission by FAX.
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245POP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/mh/spop] The pathname of the POP mailer.
246POP_MAILER_FLAGS [Penu] Flags added to POP mailer. Flags "lsDFM"
247 are always added.
248POP_MAILER_ARGS [pop $u] The arguments passed to the POP mailer.
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249PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [Shu] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags
250 ``DFMmn'' are always set.
251PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to
252 the Procmail mailer.
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253PROCMAIL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If set, the maximum size message that
254 will be accepted by the procmail mailer.
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255MAIL11_MAILER_PATH [/usr/etc/mail11] The path to the mail11 mailer.
256MAIL11_MAILER_FLAGS [nsFx] Flags for the mail11 mailer.
257MAIL11_MAILER_ARGS [mail11 $g $x $h $u] Arguments passed to the mail11
258 mailer.
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260+---------+
261| DOMAINS |
262+---------+
263
264You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one
265file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, our Berkeley
266domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished
267hosts:
268
848a0a1f 269UUCP_RELAY The host that will accept UUCP-addressed email.
4a51b074 270 If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly
bb3c21c3 271 connected.
848a0a1f 272BITNET_RELAY The host that will accept BITNET-addressed email.
4a51b074 273 If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work.
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274DECNET_RELAY The host that will accept DECNET-addressed email.
275 If not defined, the .DECNET pseudo-domain and addresses
276 of the form node::user will not work.
277FAX_RELAY The host that will accept mail to the .FAX pseudo-domain.
278 The "fax" mailer overrides this value.
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279LOCAL_RELAY DEPRECATED. The site that will handle unqualified
280 names -- that is, names with out an @domain extension.
281 If not set, they are assumed to belong on this machine.
282 This allows you to have a central site to store a
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284 only works at small sites, and only with some user
285 agents.
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286LUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently
287 local names that aren't local accounts or aliases.
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b0abd8b1 289Any of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the
4753516a 290mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``uucp-new'' and the hostname
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291is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a
292``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'',
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293a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX
294record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to
295have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back
296to yourself.
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298The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed
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299(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts
300at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use
301MASQUERADE_AS here.
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303You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a
304single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than
305it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent
306knowledge" into one place.
307
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309| MAILERS |
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312There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous
313version, owing mostly to a simpler world.
314
315local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always
316 need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL
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317 your mail to another site. This mailer is included
318 automatically.
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320smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does
321 not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other
322 such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is
d8b2ad36 323 running the name server. This file actually defines
b0abd8b1 324 four mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to
d8b2ad36 325 other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other
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326 servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without
327 converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is
328 your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit
329 clean even if it doesn't say so), and "relay" for
330 transmission to our RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or
331 MAILER_HUB.
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333uucp The Unix-to-Unix Copy Program mailer. Actually, this
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334 defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and
335 "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you
336 know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle
337 multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer
338 is also included in your configuration, two other mailers
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339 ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined [warning:
340 you MUST specify MAILER(smtp) before MAILER(uucp)]. When you
41187805 341 include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in
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342 the $=U class and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all
343 names in the $=Y class are sent to uucp-new; and all
344 names in the $=Z class are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that
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345 this is a function of what version of rmail runs on
346 the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control.
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347 See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more
348 detail.
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350usenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified,
351 an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all
352 local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the
353 ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups,
354 and may be considered a security problem.
355
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356fax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based
357 on Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software. For more information,
358 see below.
359
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360pop Post Office Protocol.
361
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362procmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail).
363 This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example,
364 a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given
365 domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer
366 defined, you could set up a mailertable reading:
367
368 host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com
369
370 with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading:
371
372 :0 # forward mail for host.com
373 ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host
374
375 This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent
376 to person@other.host. Within the procmail script, $1 is
377 the name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient.
378 If you use this with FEATURE(local_procmail), the FEATURE
379 should be listed first.
380
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381mail11 The DECnet mail11 mailer, useful only if you have the mail11
382 program from gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/gwtools (and
383 DECnet, of course).
384
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385The local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where
386the "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available
69982d42 387to certain local mail programs (in particular, see FEATURE(local_procmail)).
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388For example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and "eric+sww" all indicate
389the same user, but additional arguments <null>, "sendmail", and "sww"
390may be provided for use in sorting mail.
391
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394| FEATURES |
395+----------+
396
397Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For
398example, the .mc line:
399
400 FEATURE(use_cw_file)
401
402tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/sendmail.cw
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403file to get values for class $=w. The FEATURE may contain a single
404optional parameter -- for example:
405
406 FEATURE(mailertable, dbm /usr/lib/mailertable)
407
408Available features are:
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410use_cw_file Read the file /etc/sendmail.cw file to get alternate
411 names for this host. This might be used if you were
412 on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other
413 hosts. If the set is static, just including the line
414 "Cw<name1> <name2> ..." is probably superior.
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415 The actual filename can be overridden by redefining
416 confCW_FILE.
f51c9ac8 417
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418redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with
419 a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message.
420 If this is set, you can alias people who have left
421 to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.
f51c9ac8 422
a33031f5 423nouucp Don't do anything special with UUCP addresses at all.
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425nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification.
426 This would generally only be used by sites that only
427 act as mail gateways or which have user agents that do
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428 full canonification themselves. You may also want to
429 use "define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to
430 turn off the usual resolver options that do a similar
431 thing.
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65739042 433stickyhost If set, email sent to "user@local.host" are marked
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434 as "sticky" -- that is, the local addresses aren't
435 matched against UDB and don't go through ruleset 5.
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436 This is used if you want a set up where "user" is
437 not necessarily the same as "user@local.host", e.g.,
438 to make a distinct domain-wide namespace. Prior to
439 8.7 this was the default, and notsticky was used to
440 turn this off.
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442mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override
443 routing for particular domains. The argument of the
444 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
445 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 446 hash -o /etc/mailertable
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447 Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names
448 or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example,
449 "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU".
450 Values must be of the form:
3ad658d7 451 mailer:domain
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452 where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain"
453 is where to send the message. These maps are not
454 reflected into the message header.
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d8b2ad36 456domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide
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457 domain name mapping. Use of this should really be
458 limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you
459 change names (e.g., your company changes names from
460 oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the
461 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
462 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 463 hash -o /etc/domaintable
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464 The key in this table is the domain name; the value is
465 the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the
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466 domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this
467 is done in ruleset 3.
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469bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into
470 internet addresses. The table can be built using the
2e9b6f6e 471 bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers.
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472 The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if
473 none is specified, the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 474 hash -o /etc/bitdomain.db
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475 Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding
476 internet hostname.
f51c9ac8 477
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478uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition
479 is:
6e8cccfc 480 hash -o /etc/uudomain.db
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481 At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this
482 database.
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485 Include the local host domain even on locally delivered
486 mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already
487 present.
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490 feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade
491 as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get
492 the local hostname. Although this may be right for
493 ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example,
494 if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will
495 find that alias and send to all members, but send the
496 message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that
497 alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this
498 feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE
499 namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the
500 local entries.
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503 we are UUCP-only connected). It's hard to consider
504 this a "feature", but hey, it had to go somewhere.
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507 configuration file containing nothing but support for
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509 SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that
510 hub.
511
512 The only other feature that should be used in conjunction
513 with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to
514 be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally
515 they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which
516 defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers
517 should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done.
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69982d42 519local_procmail Use procmail as the local mailer. This mailer can
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521 normally the +indicator is just tossed, but by default
522 it is passed as the -a argument to procmail. The
523 argument to this feature is the pathname of procmail,
524 which defaults to /usr/local/bin/procmail.
525
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527 lists us as the best possible MX record. This generates
528 additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to
529 medium traffic hosts.
530
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532 with the distribution instead of /bin/sh for mailing
533 to programs. This improves the ability of the local
534 system administrator to control what gets run via
535 e-mail. If an argument is provided it is used as the
536 pathname to smrsh; otherwise, /usr/local/etc/smrsh is
537 assumed.
538
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541| HACKS |
542+-------+
543
544Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear,
fd82c288 545they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK
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546macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release
547includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes
548sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU;
549this is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into
550subdomains.
551
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554| SITE CONFIGURATION |
555+--------------------+
556
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558 * This section is really obsolete, and is preserved *
559 * only for back compatibility. You should plan on *
560 * using mailertables for new installations. In *
561 * particular, it doesn't work for the newer forms *
562 * of UUCP mailers, such as uucp-uudom. *
563 *****************************************************
564
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565Complex sites will need more local configuration information, such as
566lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more
567tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc.
568
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570the $=w class. This is a list of names by which you are known, and
571anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
572treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create
573the file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per
574line), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the
575line:
576
577 Cw alias.host.name
578
579at the end of that file. See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example.
580Be sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a
581short name.
582
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584configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For
585example, the line
586
587 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U)
588
589reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The
590second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since
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592parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in
593this case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store
594the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads
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596 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W)
597
598This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites
599connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. The $=W class will be used to
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601is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa
602are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left
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604might do this.]
605
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607special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the
608local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name
609is entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP.
610
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612more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For
613example:
614
615 SITE(cnmat)
616 SITE(sgi olympus)
617
618The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the
619same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at
620least in the same company).
621
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624| USING UUCP MAILERS |
625+--------------------+
626
627It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc
628nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed
629for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites.
630
631There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to
632use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at
633the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that
634define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you
635should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have
636to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages
637people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid
638UUCP, please do.
639
640The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a
641non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other
642end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the
643other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses
644don't work entirely properly.
645
646The four mailers are:
647
648 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp")
649 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of
650 sending messages accros UUCP connections. It does bangify
651 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's
652 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can
653 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of
654 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all
655 possible.
656
657 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp")
658 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail
659 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a
660 lot of other problems.
661
662 uucp-dom
663 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses.
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665 is only included if MAILER(smtp) is also specified.
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667 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require
668 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use
669 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope
670 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So....
671
672 uucp-uudom
673 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses)
674 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the
675 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the
676 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address
677 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name
678 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of
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680 is also specified.
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682Examples:
683
684We are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"). The
685following summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers.
686
687Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope
688------ ------ -------------------------
689uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf
690uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
691uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf
692
693uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf
694uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net
695uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf
696
697uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf
698uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
699uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf
700
701If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want
702to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will
703do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example,
704if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo),
705the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to
706this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it
707will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain
708feature.
709
710
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712| TWEAKING RULESETS |
713+-------------------+
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715For more complex configurations, you can define special rules.
716The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing
717the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header.
718
719A common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using
720the UUCPSMTP macro. For example:
721
722 LOCAL_RULE_3
723 UUCPSMTP(decvax, decvax.dec.com)
724 UUCPSMTP(research, research.att.com)
725
726will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user"
727to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com"
728respectively.
729
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732 LOCAL_RULE_3
733 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3
734
735This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below.
736
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738For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept
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740
741 LOCAL_RULE_0
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744You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU
745pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on
746using UUCP.
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749These rulesets are normally empty.
750
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752boilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to
a151c868 753declare local database maps or whatever. For example:
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755 LOCAL_CONFIG
756 Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db
757 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname
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761| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
762+---------------------------+
763
764You can have your host masquerade as another using
765
766 MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain)
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6fb312a3 768This causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the
4a51b074 769indicated domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as one
6fb312a3 770of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would
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772
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774that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a
775CNAME.
776
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778internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.
779Root is an example. You can add users to this list using
780
781 EXPOSED_USER(usernames)
782
783This adds users to class E; you could also use something like
784
785 FE/etc/sendmail.cE
786
787You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names
788without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central
789email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have
790to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using
791
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795"smtp". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps
796because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be
797locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using
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799 LOCAL_USER(usernames)
800
801This adds users to class L; you could also use something like
802
803 FL/etc/sendmail.cL
804
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806shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use
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812be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB.
813Names in $=L will be delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or
814.forward files for them.
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817FEATURE(stickyhost), the following combinations of settings will have the
818indicated effects:
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820email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
821
822LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally)
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825MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
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830
831If you do not have FEATURE(stickyhost) set, then LOCAL_RELAY and
832MAIL_HUB act identically, with MAIL_HUB taking precedence.
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835SMART_HOST as well. Briefly:
836
837 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric").
838 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
839 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU").
840 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.
841
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843DECNET_RELAY, and FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you
844really want absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will
845need to unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a
846minimal config file that does this.
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850| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |
851+-------------------------------+
852
853These configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based
854sites. I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or
855UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net
856connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is one
857hook to handle some special cases.
858
859You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax
860using:
861
862 define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname)
863
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866
867If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside
868world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules.
869For example:
870
871 define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet)
872 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
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875This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via
876SMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet.
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878the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is
879not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to
880use:
881
882 define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com)
883 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
884 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3
885
886That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup;
887anything else goes through SMART_HOST.
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890FEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting
891for the name server to come up.
892
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895| WHO AM I? |
896+-----------+
897
898Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully
899qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your
900host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the
901result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns
902only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is
903supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare)
904cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case
905you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain
906name. This is usually done using:
907
908 Dmbar.com
909 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl
910
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913| USING MAILERTABLES |
914+--------------------+
915
916To use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external
917database containing the routing information for various domains.
918For example, a mailertable file in text format might be:
919
920 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain
921 uuhost1.my.domain suucp:uuhost1
922 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net
923
924This should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable. The actual
925database version of the mailertable is built using:
926
927 makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
928
929The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with
930a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning
931with a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is,
932they can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard. Matching
933is done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even
934though ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry
935of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is
936more explicit.
937
938The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the
939configuration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the
940sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to
941that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading
942dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of
943the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything
944addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using
945the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer.
946
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948particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX
949everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it
950directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration:
951
952 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine
953
954and on relay.machine use the mailertable:
955
956 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain]
957
958The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only.
959If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record
960again, which would give you an MX loop.
961
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964| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
965+--------------------------------+
966
967The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
968to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
969it that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
970purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
971is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
972a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
973
974If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
65739042 975imperative that you not use FEATURE(stickyhost) -- otherwise,
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977
65739042 978To build the internal form of the user database, use:
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980 makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
981
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983e-mail addresses, since they are not in any sense unique. For example,
984the Unix software-development community has two Andy Tannenbaums,
985at least two well-known Peter Deutsches, and at one time Bell Labs
986had two Stephen R. Bournes with offices along the same hallway.
987Which one will be forced to suffer the indignity of being
988Stephen_R_Bourne_2? The less famous of the two, or the one that
989was hired later?
990
991Finger should handle full names (and be fuzzy). Mail should use
992handles, and not be fuzzy. [Not that I expect anyone to pay any
993attention to my opinions.]
994
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997| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES |
998+--------------------------------+
999
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1002 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all
1003 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be
1004 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class
1005 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this
c604cca4 1006 using plussed users. For example, a client might include
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1008
c604cca4 1009 root: root+client1@server
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1012 If that is not found, the alias "root+*" will be tried,
1013 then "root".
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1018+----------------+
1019
1020A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much
1021more careful about checking for security problems than previous
1022versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch
1023for. In particular:
1024
1025* Make sure the aliases file isn't writable except by trusted
1026 system personnel. This includes both the text and database
1027 version.
1028
1029* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the
1030 mailertable, is only writable by trusted system personnel.
1031
1032* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY
1033 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root
1034 user can chown any file they own to any other user).
1035
1036* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically
1037 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone
1038 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that
1039 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a
1040 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory).
1041
1042* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that
1043 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in
1044 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in
1045 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before
1046 files and programs listed in them will be honored).
1047
1048In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them
1049off I recommend you do so.
1050
1051
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1053| FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
1054+------------------+
1055
1056Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a
1057public version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93]. The following
1058blurb is direct from Sam:
1059
d1ad6cf3 1060 $Header: /usr/people/sam/fax/RCS/HOWTO,v 1.14 93/05/24 11:42:16 sam Exp $
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1062 How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)
d1ad6cf3 1063 --------------------------------------------------------------
63013ec3 1064 The source code is available for public ftp on
d1ad6cf3 1065 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z
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1066 (192.48.153.1)
1067
1068 You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from
d1ad6cf3 1069 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar
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1070 (192.48.153.1)
1071
1072 For example,
1073 % ftp -n sgi.com
1074 ....
1075 ftp> user anonymous
1076 ... <type in password>
1077 ftp> cd sgi/fax
1078 ftp> binary
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1080
1081 In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is
1082 always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp
1083 directory. This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so
1084 don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of
1085 the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older
1086 versions of the source code. For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would
1087 contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z. (Note to beta testers: this is
1088 different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch
1089 files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are
1090 multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply
1091 each patch file between your current version and the latest.
1092
1093
1094 Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail
1095 -----------------------------------------
1096 Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without
1097 response). If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
1098 "ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com: you can send e-mail to
1099 this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you
1100 the files back again via e-mail. To find out more about the ftpmail
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1101 service, send a message to "ftpmail@gatekeeper.dec.com" whose body
1102 consists of the single line "help".
1103
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1105 Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics
1106 ----------------------------------------------
63013ec3 1107 Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
d1ad6cf3 1108 flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist. Thus you can do something like:
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d1ad6cf3 1110 % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax
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d1ad6cf3 1112 to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
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1115 What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff
1116 --------------------------------------
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1117 The external distributions come in a compressed or uncompressed tar
1118 file. To extract the source distribution:
1119
d1ad6cf3 1120 % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf -
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1122 (uncompress and extract individual files in current directory). To
1123 unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution:
1124
1125 % mkdir dist
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1128 ...
1129 inst> go
1130
1131 (Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if
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1133 included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*. They are not
1134 installed by default, so to get them also you need to do:
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1136 % inst -f flexfax
1137 ...
1138 inst> install flexfax.server.*
1139 inst> go
1140
d1ad6cf3 1141 The SGI binaries were built for Version 4.0.5H of the IRIX operating
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1143 system, but I have not fully tested this. Also, note that to install a
1144 server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display
1145 PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe). Otherwise, the fax
1146 server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for
1147 transmission.
1148
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1150 README in the top of the source tree. If you are working from the inst
1151 images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and
1152 other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in
1153 the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax). Basically you will need to run
1154 the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem. Consult
1155 the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information.
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1159 -----------------
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1161 If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request
1162 such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to
1163
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1165
1166 For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in
1167 the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of
1168 the commands understood by the mailing list management software.
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1170 Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to:
1171
1172 flexfax@sgi.com
1173
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1175 version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is
1176 specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision.
1177
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1180| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |
1181+--------------------------------+
1182
1183There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally
1184need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you
1185can define the following M4 variables. This list is shown in four
1186columns: the name you define, the default value for that definition,
1187the option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx
1188for a macro), and a brief description. Greater detail of the semantics
1189can be found in the Installation and Operations Guide.
1190
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1192the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are
1193marked with "*".
1194
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1196be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to
1197be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma
1198confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for
1199the read timeout.
1200
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1201M4 Variable Name Configuration Description & [Default]
1202================ ============= =======================
1203confMAILER_NAME $n macro [MAILER-DAEMON] The sender name used
1204 for internally generated outgoing
1205 messages.
1206confFROM_LINE $l macro [From $g $d] The From_ line used
1207 when sending to files or programs.
1208confFROM_HEADER $q macro [$?x$x <$g>$|$g$.] The format of an
1209 internally generated From: address.
1210confOPERATORS $o macro [.:%@!^/[]+] Address operator
1211 characters.
8b065e59 1212confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG $e macro [$j Sendmail $v/$Z; $b]
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1215 will be inserted between the first and
1216 second words to convince other
1217 sendmails to try to speak ESMTP.
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1218confDOMAIN_NAME $j macro If defined, sets $j. This should
1219 only be done if your system cannot
1220 determine your local domain name,
1221 and then it should be set to
1222 $w.Foo.COM, where Foo.COM is your
1223 domain name.
1224confRECEIVED_HEADER Received:
1225 [.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u for $u$.; $b]
1226 The format of the Received: header
1227 in messages passed through this host.
1228 It is unwise to try to change this.
1229confCW_FILE Fw class [/etc/sendmail.cw] Name of file used
1230 to get the local additions to the $=w
1231 class.
1232confSMTP_MAILER - [smtp] The mailer name used when
1233 SMTP connectivity is required.
1234 One of "smtp", "smtp8", or "esmtp".
1235confLOCAL_MAILER - [local] The mailer name used when
1236 local connectivity is required.
1237 Almost always "local".
1238confRELAY_MAILER - [relay] The default mailer name used
1239 for relaying any mail (e.g., to a
1240 BITNET_RELAY, a SMART_HOST, or
1241 whatever). This can reasonably be
1242 "uucp-new" if you are on a
1243 UUCP-connected site.
1244confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT SevenBitInput [False] Force input to seven bits?
1245confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING EightBitMode [pass8] 8-bit data handling
1246confALIAS_WAIT AliasWait [10m] Time to wait for alias file
1247 rebuild until you get bored and
1248 decide that the apparently pending
1249 rebuild failed.
1250confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS MinFreeBlocks [100] Minimum number of free blocks on
1251 queue filesystem to accept SMTP mail.
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1253 where minfree was the number of free
1254 blocks and maxsize was the maximum
1255 message size. Use confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE
1256 for the second value now.)
1257confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE MaxMessageSize The maximum size of messages that will
1258 be accepted (in bytes).
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1259confBLANK_SUB BlankSub [.] Blank (space) substitution
1260 character.
1261confCON_EXPENSIVE HoldExpensive [False] Avoid connecting immediately
1262 to mailers marked expensive?
1263confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL CheckpointInterval
1264 Checkpoint queue files every N
1265 recipients.
1266confDELIVERY_MODE DeliveryMode [background] Default delivery mode.
1267confAUTO_REBUILD AutoRebuildAliases
1268 Automatically rebuild alias
1269 file if needed.
1270confERROR_MODE ErrorMode Error message mode.
1271confERROR_MESSAGE ErrorHeader Error message header/file.
1272confSAVE_FROM_LINES SafeFromLine Save extra leading From_ lines.
1273confTEMP_FILE_MODE TempFileMode [0600] Temporary file mode.
1274confMATCH_GECOS MatchGECOS Match GECOS field.
1275confMAX_HOP MaxHopCount Maximum hop count.
1276confIGNORE_DOTS* IgnoreDots Ignore dot as terminator for incoming
1277 messages?
1278confBIND_OPTS ResolverOptions Default options for DNS resolver.
1279confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS* SendMimeErrors [True] Send error messages as MIME-
1280 encapsulated messages per RFC 1344.
1281confFORWARD_PATH ForwardPath [$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward]
1282 The colon-separated list of places to
1283 search for .forward files. N.B.: see
1284 the Security Notes section.
1285confMCI_CACHE_SIZE ConnectionCacheSize
1286 [2] Size of open connection cache.
1287confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT ConnectionCacheTimeout
1288 [5m] Open connection cache timeout.
1289confUSE_ERRORS_TO* UserErrorsTo [False] Use the Errors-To: header to deliver
1290 error messages. This should not be
1291 necessary because of general acceptance
1292 of the envelope/header distinction.
1293confLOG_LEVEL LogLevel [9] Log level.
1294confME_TOO MeToo Include sender in group expansions.
1295confCHECK_ALIASES CheckAliases [True] Check RHS of aliases when
1296 running newaliases.
1297confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS* OldStyleHeaders [True] Assume that headers without
1298 special chars are old style.
1299confDAEMON_OPTIONS DaemonPortOptions
1300 SMTP daemon options.
1301confPRIVACY_FLAGS PrivacyOptions [authwarnings] Privacy flags.
1302confCOPY_ERRORS_TO PostmasterCopy Address for additional copies of all
1303 error messages.
1304confQUEUE_FACTOR QueueFactor Slope of queue-only function.
1305confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES DontPruneRoutes Don't prune down route-addr syntax
1306 addresses to the minimum possible.
1307confSAFE_QUEUE* SuperSafe [True] Commit all messages to disk
1308 before forking.
1309confTIME_ZONE TimeZoneSpec [USE_SYSTEM] Time zone info -- can be
1310 USE_SYSTEM to use the system's idea,
1311 USE_TZ to use the user's TZ envariable,
1312 or something else to force that value.
1313confDEF_USER_ID DefaultUser [1:1] Default user id.
1314confUSERDB_SPEC UserDatabaseSpec
1315 User database specification.
1316confFALLBACK_MX FallbackMXhost Fallback MX host.
1317confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST TryNullMXList If we are the best MX for a host and
1318 haven't made other arrangements, try
1319 connecting to the host directly;
1320 normally this would be a config error.
1321confQUEUE_LA QueueLA Load average at which queue-only
1322 function kicks in.
1323confREFUSE_LA RefuseLA Load average at which incoming
1324 SMTP connections are refused.
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1327confSEPARATE_PROC ForkEachJob Run all deliveries in a separate
1328 process.
1329confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR ClassFactor Priority multiplier for class.
1330confWORK_TIME_FACTOR RetryFactor Cost of each delivery attempt.
1331confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER QueueSortOrder Queue sort algorithm: Priority or Host.
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1333 must sit in the queue between queue
1334 runs. This allows you to set the
1335 queue run interval low for better
1336 resposiveness without trying all
1337 jobs in each run.
1338confDEF_CHAR_SET DefaultCharSet When converting unlabelled 8 bit
1339 input to MIME, the character set to
1340 use by default.
1341confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE ServiceSwitchFile
1342 The file to use for the service switch
1343 on systems that do not have a system-
1344 defined switch.
1345confDIAL_DELAY DialDelay If a connection fails, wait this long
1346 and try again. This is to allow
1347 "dial on demand" connections to have
1348 enough time to complete a connection.
1349confNO_RCPT_ACTION NoRecipientAction
1350 What to do if there are no legal
1351 recipient fields (To:, Cc: or Bcc:)
1352 in the message. Legal values can
1353 be "none" to just leave the
1354 nonconforming message as is, "add-to"
1355 to add a To: header with all the
1356 known recipients (which may expose
1357 blind recipients), "add-apparently-to"
1358 to do the same but use Apparently-To:
1359 instead of To:, "add-bcc" to add an
1360 empty Bcc: header, or
1361 "add-to-undisclosed" to add the header
1362 ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;''.
1363 Default is "none".
1364confSAFE_FILE_ENV SafeFileEnvironment
1365 If set, sendmail will do a chroot()
1366 into this directory before writing
1367 files.
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1369 character in addresses. If not set,
1370 they are treated as the introducer to
1371 the RFC 822 "group" syntax. Colons are
1372 handled properly in route-addrs. This
1373 option defaults on for V5 and lower
1374 configuration files.
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1378| HIERARCHY |
1379+-----------+
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1381Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit:
1382
1383m4 General support routines. These are typically
1384 very important and should not be changed without
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1387cf The configuration files themselves. They have
1388 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to
1389 become complete. The resulting output should
1390 have a ".cf" suffix.
1391
1392ostype Definitions describing a particular operating
1393 system type. These should always be referenced
1394 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples
1395 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and
1396 "sunos4.1".
1397
1398domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced
1399 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are
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1401 describes hosts in the CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain.
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1403mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using
1404 the MAILER macro in the .mc file.
1405
1406sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the
1407 .mc file in the cf subdirectory.
1408
1409feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might
1410 want to include. They should be referenced using
1411 the FEATURE macro.
1412
1413hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK
1414 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic
1415 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows?
6fb312a3 1416 We've all got our own peccadillos.
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1419 UUCP sites.
1420
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1426The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the
1427sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify
1428the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these
1429should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more).
1430
1431RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail)
1432
1433 0 * Parsing
1434 1 * Sender rewriting
1435 2 * Recipient rewriting
1436 3 * Canonicalization
1437 4 * Post cleanup
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1440 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification)
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1442 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification)
1443 5x mailer subroutines (general)
1444 6x mailer subroutines (general)
1445 7x mailer subroutines (general)
1446 8x reserved
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1449 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail)
5dd53c38 1450 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail)
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1453MAILERS
1454
1455 0 local, prog local and program mailers
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1457 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
bee9d799 1458 3 netnews Network News delivery
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37498540 1460 5 mail11 DECnet mailer
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1462
1463MACROS
1464
1465 A
1466 B Bitnet Relay
848a0a1f 1467 C DECnet Relay
f5baef19 1468 D The local domain -- usually not needed
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63013ec3 1470 F FAX Relay
7ace9d88 1471 G
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1474 J
1475 K
b0abd8b1 1476 L Luser Relay
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1478 N
1479 O
1480 P
1481 Q
1482 R Relay (for unqualified names)
28b51619 1483 S Smart Host
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1486 V UUCP Relay (class V hosts)
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1488 X UUCP Relay (class X hosts)
c573210d 1489 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts)
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1491
1492
1493CLASSES
1494
1495 A
1496 B
1497 C
c604cca4 1498 D
4a51b074 1499 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M
f5baef19 1500 F hosts we forward for
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1502 H
1503 I
1504 J
1505 K
1506 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R
1507 M
1508 N
1509 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names)
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1512 R
1513 S
1514 T
1515 U locally connected UUCP hosts
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1517 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W
1518 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X
1519 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts
2e9b6f6e 1520 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts
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1525
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1527 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions
1528 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions
9df1b56b 1529 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions
c573210d 1530 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R)
f5baef19 1531 6 local configuration (at top of file)
7ace9d88 1532 7 mailer definitions
32f9e686 1533 8
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