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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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bbf8c7ae 7 @(#)README 8.41 (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
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68Let's examine a typical .mc file (cf/cs-exposed.mc):
69
70 divert(-1)
71 #
72 # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman
73 # Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
74 # All rights reserved.
75 #
76 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
77 # provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
78 # duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
79 # advertising materials, and other materials related to such
80 # distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
81 # by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
82 # University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
83 # from this software without specific prior written permission.
84 # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
85 # IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
86 # WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
87 #
88
4a51b074 89The divert(-1) will delete the crud in the resulting output file.
fd82c288 90The copyright notice is what your lawyers require. Our lawyers require
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91the one that I've included in my files. A copyleft is a copyright by
92another name.
93
94The next line MUST be
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96 include(`../m4/cf.m4')
97
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98This will pull in the M4 macros you will need to make sense of
99everything else. As the saying goes, don't think about it, just
100do it. If you don't do it, don't bother reading the rest of this
101file.
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8897fcb1 103 VERSIONID(`<SCCS or RCS version id>')
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105VERSIONID is a macro that stuffs the version information into the
106resulting file. We use SCCS; you could use RCS, something else, or
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107omit it completely. This is not the same as the version id included
108in SMTP greeting messages -- this is defined in m4/version.m4.
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9df1b56b 110 DOMAIN(cs.exposed)
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112This example exposes the host inside of the CS subdomain -- that is,
113it doesn't try to hide the name of the workstation to the outside
114world. Changing this to DOMAIN(cs.hidden) would have made outgoing
115messages refer to "<username>@CS.Berkeley.EDU" instead of using the
5dd53c38 116local hostname. Internally this is effected by using
4a51b074 117"MASQUERADE_AS(CS.Berkeley.EDU)".
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9df1b56b 119 MAILER(smtp)
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121These describe the mailers used at the default CS site site. The
122local mailer is always included automatically.
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125+--------+
126| OSTYPE |
127+--------+
128
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129Note that cf/cs-exposed.mc omits an OSTYPE macro -- this assumes
130default Computer Science Division environment. There are several
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131explicit environments available: bsd4.3, bsd4.4, hpux, irix, osf1,
132riscos4.5, sunos3.5, sunos4.1, and ultrix4.1. These change things
133like the location of the alias file and queue directory. Some of
134these files are identical to one another.
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135
136Operating system definitions are easy to write. They may define
137the following variables (everything defaults, so an ostype file
138may be empty).
139
140ALIAS_FILE [/etc/aliases] The location of the text version
00d0b5bf 141 of the alias file(s). It can be a comma-separated
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142 list of names (but be sure you quote values with
143 comments in them -- for example, use
144 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `a,b')
145 to get "a" and "b" both listed as alias files;
146 otherwise the define() primitive only sees "a").
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147HELP_FILE [/usr/lib/sendmail.hf] The name of the file
148 containing information printed in response to
149 the SMTP HELP command.
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150QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/mqueue] The directory containing
151 queue files.
152STATUS_FILE [/etc/sendmail.st] The file containing status
153 information.
bee9d799 154LOCAL_MAILER_PATH [/bin/mail] The program used to deliver local mail.
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155LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS [rmn] The flags used by the local mailer. The
156 flags lsDFM are always included.
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157LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS [mail -d $u] The arguments passed to deliver local
158 mail.
bee9d799 159LOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email.
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160LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu] The flags used by the shell mailer. The
161 flags lsDFM are always included.
162LOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog"
163 mail.
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164USENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program
165 used to submit news.
166USENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rlsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer.
167USENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the
168 usenet mailer.
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169USENET_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size of messages that will
170 be accepted by the usenet mailer.
5dd53c38 171SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default
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172 flags are `mDFMUX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the
173 "esmtp" mailer adds `a' and "smtp8" adds `8'.
4e444ec8 174SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will
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175 be transported using the smtp, smtp8, or esmtp
176 mailers.
177SMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer.
178 About the only reason you would want to change this
179 would be to change the default port.
180ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer.
181SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer.
182RELAY_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer.
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183UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default
184 flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for suucp mailer, minus
185 `U' for uucp-dom mailer).
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186UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$f -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments
187 passed to the UUCP mailer.
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188UUCP_MAX_SIZE [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
189 transmission by the UUCP mailers.
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190FAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to
191 submit FAX messages.
192FAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
193 transmission by FAX.
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194POP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/mh/spop] The pathname of the POP mailer.
195POP_MAILER_FLAGS [Penu] Flags added to POP mailer. Flags "lsDFM"
196 are always added.
197POP_MAILER_ARGS [pop $u] The arguments passed to the POP mailer.
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198PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [Shu] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags
199 ``DFMmn'' are always set.
200PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to
201 the Procmail mailer.
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203+---------+
204| DOMAINS |
205+---------+
206
207You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one
208file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, our Berkeley
209domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished
210hosts:
211
212UUCP_RELAY The host that will forward UUCP-addressed email.
213 If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly
bb3c21c3 214 connected.
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215BITNET_RELAY The host that will forward BITNET-addressed email.
216 If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work.
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217LOCAL_RELAY The site that will handle unqualified names -- that
218 is, names with out an @domain extension. If not set,
219 they are assumed to belong on this machine. This
220 allows you to have a central site to store a
221 company- or department-wide alias database. This
222 only works at small sites, and there are better
bb3c21c3 223 methods.
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224LUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently
225 local names that aren't local accounts or aliases.
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b0abd8b1 227Any of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the
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228mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``suucp'' and the hostname
229is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a
230``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'',
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231a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX
232record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to
233have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back
234to yourself.
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236The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed
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237(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts
238at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use
239MASQUERADE_AS here.
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241You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a
242single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than
243it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent
244knowledge" into one place.
245
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246+---------+
247| MAILERS |
248+---------+
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250There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous
251version, owing mostly to a simpler world.
252
253local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always
254 need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL
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255 your mail to another site. This mailer is included
256 automatically.
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258smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does
259 not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other
260 such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is
d8b2ad36 261 running the name server. This file actually defines
b0abd8b1 262 four mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to
d8b2ad36 263 other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other
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264 servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without
265 converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is
266 your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit
267 clean even if it doesn't say so), and "relay" for
268 transmission to our RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or
269 MAILER_HUB.
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271uucp The Unix-to-Unix Copy Program mailer. Actually, this
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272 defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and
273 "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you
274 know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle
275 multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer
276 is also included in your configuration, two other mailers
277 ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined. When you
278 include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in
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279 the $=U class and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all
280 names in the $=Y class are sent to uucp-new; and all
281 names in the $=Z class are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that
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282 this is a function of what version of rmail runs on
283 the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control.
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284 See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more
285 detail.
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287usenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified,
288 an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all
289 local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the
290 ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups,
291 and may be considered a security problem.
292
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293fax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based
294 on Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software. For more information,
295 see below.
296
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297pop Post Office Protocol.
298
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299procmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail).
300 This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example,
301 a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given
302 domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer
303 defined, you could set up a mailertable reading:
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305 host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com
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307 with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading:
308
309 :0 # forward mail for host.com
310 ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host
311
312 This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent
313 to person@other.host. Within the procmail script, $1 is
314 the name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient.
315 If you use this with FEATURE(local_procmail), the FEATURE
316 should be listed first.
317
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318The local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where
319the "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available
69982d42 320to certain local mail programs (in particular, see FEATURE(local_procmail)).
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321For example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and "eric+sww" all indicate
322the same user, but additional arguments <null>, "sendmail", and "sww"
323may be provided for use in sorting mail.
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327| FEATURES |
328+----------+
329
330Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For
331example, the .mc line:
332
333 FEATURE(use_cw_file)
334
335tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/sendmail.cw
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336file to get values for class $=w. The FEATURE may contain a single
337optional parameter -- for example:
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339 FEATURE(mailertable, dbm /usr/lib/mailertable)
340
341Available features are:
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343use_cw_file Read the file /etc/sendmail.cw file to get alternate
344 names for this host. This might be used if you were
345 on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other
346 hosts. If the set is static, just including the line
347 "Cw<name1> <name2> ..." is probably superior.
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348 The actual filename can be overridden by redefining
349 confCW_FILE.
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351redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with
352 a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message.
353 If this is set, you can alias people who have left
354 to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.
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a33031f5 356nouucp Don't do anything special with UUCP addresses at all.
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358nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification.
359 This would generally only be used by sites that only
360 act as mail gateways or which have user agents that do
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361 full canonification themselves. You may also want to
362 use "define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to
363 turn off the usual resolver options that do a similar
364 thing.
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65739042 366stickyhost If set, email sent to "user@local.host" are marked
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367 as "sticky" -- that is, the local addresses aren't
368 matched against UDB and don't go through ruleset 5.
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369 This is used if you want a set up where "user" is
370 not necessarily the same as "user@local.host", e.g.,
371 to make a distinct domain-wide namespace. Prior to
372 8.7 this was the default, and notsticky was used to
373 turn this off.
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375mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override
376 routing for particular domains. The argument of the
377 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
378 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 379 hash -o /etc/mailertable
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380 Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names
381 or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example,
382 "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU".
383 Values must be of the form:
3ad658d7 384 mailer:domain
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385 where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain"
386 is where to send the message. These maps are not
387 reflected into the message header.
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d8b2ad36 389domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide
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390 domain name mapping. Use of this should really be
391 limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you
392 change names (e.g., your company changes names from
393 oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the
394 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
395 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 396 hash -o /etc/domaintable
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397 The key in this table is the domain name; the value is
398 the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the
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399 domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this
400 is done in ruleset 3.
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402bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into
403 internet addresses. The table can be built using the
2e9b6f6e 404 bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers.
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405 The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if
406 none is specified, the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 407 hash -o /etc/bitdomain.db
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408 Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding
409 internet hostname.
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411uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition
412 is:
6e8cccfc 413 hash -o /etc/uudomain.db
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414 At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this
415 database.
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417always_add_domain
418 Include the local host domain even on locally delivered
419 mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already
420 present.
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422allmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this
423 feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade
424 as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get
425 the local hostname. Although this may be right for
426 ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example,
427 if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will
428 find that alias and send to all members, but send the
429 message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that
430 alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this
431 feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE
432 namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the
433 local entries.
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435nodns We aren't running DNS at our site (for example,
436 we are UUCP-only connected). It's hard to consider
437 this a "feature", but hey, it had to go somewhere.
4a51b074 438
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439nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a stripped down
440 configuration file containing nothing but support for
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441 forwarding all mail to a central hub via a local
442 SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that
443 hub.
444
445 The only other feature that should be used in conjunction
446 with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to
447 be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally
448 they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which
449 defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers
450 should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done.
f51c9ac8 451
69982d42 452local_procmail Use procmail as the local mailer. This mailer can
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453 make use of the "user+indicator@local.host" syntax;
454 normally the +indicator is just tossed, but by default
455 it is passed as the -a argument to procmail. The
456 argument to this feature is the pathname of procmail,
457 which defaults to /usr/local/bin/procmail.
458
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460+-------+
461| HACKS |
462+-------+
463
464Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear,
fd82c288 465they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK
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466macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release
467includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes
468sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU;
469this is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into
470subdomains.
471
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473+--------------------+
474| SITE CONFIGURATION |
475+--------------------+
476
477Complex sites will need more local configuration information, such as
478lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more
479tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc.
480
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481If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment
482the $=w class. This is a list of names by which you are known, and
483anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
484treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create
485the file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per
486line), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the
487line:
488
489 Cw alias.host.name
490
491at the end of that file. See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example.
492Be sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a
493short name.
494
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495The SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent
496configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For
497example, the line
498
499 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U)
500
501reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The
502second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since
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504parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in
505this case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store
506the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads
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508 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W)
509
510This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites
511connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. The $=W class will be used to
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513is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa
514are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left
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516might do this.]
517
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519special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the
520local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name
521is entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP.
522
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524more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For
525example:
526
527 SITE(cnmat)
528 SITE(sgi olympus)
529
530The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the
531same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at
532least in the same company).
533
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536| USING UUCP MAILERS |
537+--------------------+
538
539It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc
540nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed
541for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites.
542
543There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to
544use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at
545the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that
546define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you
547should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have
548to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages
549people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid
550UUCP, please do.
551
552The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a
553non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other
554end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the
555other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses
556don't work entirely properly.
557
558The four mailers are:
559
560 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp")
561 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of
562 sending messages accros UUCP connections. It does bangify
563 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's
564 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can
565 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of
566 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all
567 possible.
568
569 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp")
570 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail
571 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a
572 lot of other problems.
573
574 uucp-dom
575 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses.
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577 is only included if MAILER(smtp) is also specified.
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579 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require
580 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use
581 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope
582 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So....
583
584 uucp-uudom
585 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses)
586 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the
587 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the
588 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address
589 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name
590 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of
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592 is also specified.
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594Examples:
595
596We are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"). The
597following summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers.
598
599Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope
600------ ------ -------------------------
601uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf
602uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
603uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf
604
605uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf
606uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net
607uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf
608
609uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf
610uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
611uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf
612
613If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want
614to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will
615do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example,
616if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo),
617the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to
618this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it
619will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain
620feature.
621
622
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624| TWEAKING RULESETS |
625+-------------------+
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627For more complex configurations, you can define special rules.
628The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing
629the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header.
630
631A common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using
632the UUCPSMTP macro. For example:
633
634 LOCAL_RULE_3
635 UUCPSMTP(decvax, decvax.dec.com)
636 UUCPSMTP(research, research.att.com)
637
638will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user"
639to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com"
640respectively.
641
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644 LOCAL_RULE_3
645 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3
646
647This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below.
648
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650For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept
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652
653 LOCAL_RULE_0
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656You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU
657pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on
658using UUCP.
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661These rulesets are normally empty.
662
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664boilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to
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667 LOCAL_CONFIG
668 Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db
669 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname
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673| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
674+---------------------------+
675
676You can have your host masquerade as another using
677
678 MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain)
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6fb312a3 680This causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the
4a51b074 681indicated domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as one
6fb312a3 682of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would
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684
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686that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a
687CNAME.
688
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690internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.
691Root is an example. You can add users to this list using
692
693 EXPOSED_USER(usernames)
694
695This adds users to class E; you could also use something like
696
697 FE/etc/sendmail.cE
698
699You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names
700without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central
701email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have
702to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using
703
28b51619 704 define(`LOCAL_RELAY', mailer:hostname)
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707"smtp". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps
708because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be
709locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using
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711 LOCAL_USER(usernames)
712
713This adds users to class L; you could also use something like
714
715 FL/etc/sendmail.cL
716
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718shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use
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28b51619 722Again, ``mailer:'' defaults to "smtp". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY
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724other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. Names in $=L will be
725delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or .forward files for them.
726
727For example, if are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU, the following
28b51619 728combinations of settings will have the indicated effects:
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730email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
731
732LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally)
733mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU
734
735MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
736mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
737
738Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
739MAIL_HUB set as above
740
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742SMART_HOST as well. Briefly:
743
744 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric").
745 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
746 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU").
747 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.
748
749However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, and
750FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you really want
751absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will need to
752unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a minimal
753config file that does this.
754
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756+-------------------------------+
757| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |
758+-------------------------------+
759
760These configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based
761sites. I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or
762UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net
763connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is one
764hook to handle some special cases.
765
766You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax
767using:
768
769 define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname)
770
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773
774If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside
775world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules.
776For example:
777
778 define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet)
779 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
d8b2ad36 780 R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
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782This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via
783SMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet.
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785the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is
786not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to
787use:
788
789 define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com)
790 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
791 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3
792
793That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup;
794anything else goes through SMART_HOST.
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797FEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting
798for the name server to come up.
799
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802| WHO AM I? |
803+-----------+
804
805Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully
806qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your
807host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the
808result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns
809only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is
810supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare)
811cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case
812you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain
813name. This is usually done using:
814
815 Dmbar.com
816 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl
817
818
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820| USING MAILERTABLES |
821+--------------------+
822
823To use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external
824database containing the routing information for various domains.
825For example, a mailertable file in text format might be:
826
827 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain
828 uuhost1.my.domain suucp:uuhost1
829 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net
830
831This should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable. The actual
832database version of the mailertable is built using:
833
834 makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
835
836The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with
837a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning
838with a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is,
839they can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard. Matching
840is done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even
841though ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry
842of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is
843more explicit.
844
845The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the
846configuration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the
847sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to
848that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading
849dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of
850the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything
851addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using
852the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer.
853
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855particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX
856everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it
857directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration:
858
859 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine
860
861and on relay.machine use the mailertable:
862
863 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain]
864
865The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only.
866If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record
867again, which would give you an MX loop.
868
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871| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
872+--------------------------------+
873
874The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
875to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
876it that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
877purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
878is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
879a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
880
881If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
65739042 882imperative that you not use FEATURE(stickyhost) -- otherwise,
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884
65739042 885To build the internal form of the user database, use:
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887 makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
888
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891| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES |
892+--------------------------------+
893
894DOTTED_USER(name)
895 Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a
896 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all
897 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be
898 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class
899 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this
900 using dotted users. For example, a client might include
901 the alias:
902
903 root: root.client1@server
904
905 On the server, the mail configuration would include:
906
907 DOTTED_USER(root)
908
909 Aliases on the server that would match this address would
910 be "root.client", "root.*", and "root", tried in that
911 order. You can specify multiple addresses either by
912 joining them in one DOTTTED_USER macro or by having
913 multiple macros:
914
915 DOTTED_USER(root)
916 DOTTED_USER(postmaster mailer-daemon)
917
918 defines three dotted users.
919
920
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922| SECURITY NOTES |
923+----------------+
924
925A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much
926more careful about checking for security problems than previous
927versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch
928for. In particular:
929
930* Make sure the aliases file isn't writable except by trusted
931 system personnel. This includes both the text and database
932 version.
933
934* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the
935 mailertable, is only writable by trusted system personnel.
936
937* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY
938 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root
939 user can chown any file they own to any other user).
940
941* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically
942 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone
943 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that
944 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a
945 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory).
946
947* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that
948 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in
949 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in
950 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before
951 files and programs listed in them will be honored).
952
953In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them
954off I recommend you do so.
955
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958| FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
959+------------------+
960
961Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a
962public version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93]. The following
963blurb is direct from Sam:
964
d1ad6cf3 965 $Header: /usr/people/sam/fax/RCS/HOWTO,v 1.14 93/05/24 11:42:16 sam Exp $
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967 How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)
d1ad6cf3 968 --------------------------------------------------------------
63013ec3 969 The source code is available for public ftp on
d1ad6cf3 970 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z
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972
973 You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from
d1ad6cf3 974 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar
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976
977 For example,
978 % ftp -n sgi.com
979 ....
980 ftp> user anonymous
981 ... <type in password>
982 ftp> cd sgi/fax
983 ftp> binary
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985
986 In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is
987 always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp
988 directory. This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so
989 don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of
990 the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older
991 versions of the source code. For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would
992 contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z. (Note to beta testers: this is
993 different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch
994 files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are
995 multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply
996 each patch file between your current version and the latest.
997
998
999 Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail
1000 -----------------------------------------
1001 Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without
1002 response). If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
1003 "ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com: you can send e-mail to
1004 this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you
1005 the files back again via e-mail. To find out more about the ftpmail
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1007 consists of the single line "help".
1008
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1010 Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics
1011 ----------------------------------------------
63013ec3 1012 Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
d1ad6cf3 1013 flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist. Thus you can do something like:
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d1ad6cf3 1015 % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax
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d1ad6cf3 1017 to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
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1020 What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff
1021 --------------------------------------
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1022 The external distributions come in a compressed or uncompressed tar
1023 file. To extract the source distribution:
1024
d1ad6cf3 1025 % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf -
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1027 (uncompress and extract individual files in current directory). To
1028 unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution:
1029
1030 % mkdir dist
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1033 ...
1034 inst> go
1035
1036 (Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if
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1038 included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*. They are not
1039 installed by default, so to get them also you need to do:
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1041 % inst -f flexfax
1042 ...
1043 inst> install flexfax.server.*
1044 inst> go
1045
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1048 system, but I have not fully tested this. Also, note that to install a
1049 server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display
1050 PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe). Otherwise, the fax
1051 server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for
1052 transmission.
1053
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1055 README in the top of the source tree. If you are working from the inst
1056 images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and
1057 other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in
1058 the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax). Basically you will need to run
1059 the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem. Consult
1060 the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information.
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1063 FlexFAX Mail List
1064 -----------------
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1065 A mailing list for users of this software is located on sgi.com.
1066 If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request
1067 such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to
1068
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1069 majordomo@whizzer.wpd.sgi.com
1070
1071 For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in
1072 the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of
1073 the commands understood by the mailing list management software.
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1074
1075 Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to:
1076
1077 flexfax@sgi.com
1078
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1079 When corresponding about this software please always specify what
1080 version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is
1081 specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision.
1082
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1084+--------------------------------+
1085| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |
1086+--------------------------------+
1087
1088There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally
1089need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you
1090can define the following M4 variables. This list is shown in four
1091columns: the name you define, the default value for that definition,
1092the option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx
1093for a macro), and a brief description. Greater detail of the semantics
1094can be found in the Installation and Operations Guide.
1095
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1096Some options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is,
1097the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are
1098marked with "*".
1099
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1100Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to
1101be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to
1102be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma
1103confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for
1104the read timeout.
1105
a151c868 1106M4 Variable Name Default Mac/Opt Description
a7e36c1b 1107================ ======= ======= ===========
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1108confMAILER_NAME MAILER-DAEMON Dn The sender name used for
1109 internally generated
1110 outgoing messages.
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1111confFROM_LINE From $g $d Dl The From_ line used when
1112 sending to files or programs.
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1113confFROM_HEADER $?x$x <$g>$|$g$. The format of an internally
1114 Dq generated From: address.
1d64a22c 1115confOPERATORS .:%@!^/[]+ Do Address operator characters.
2e9b6f6e 1116confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG $j Sendmail $v/$Z ready at $b
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1117 De The initial (spontaneous)
1118 SMTP greeting message.
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1119confRECEIVED_HEADER $?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u for $u$.; $b
1120 HReceived
1121 The format of the Received:
1122 header in messages passed
1123 through this host. It is
1124 unwise to try to change this.
f6232b5e 1125confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT False O7 Force input to seven bits?
eb802161 1126confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING pass8 O8 8-bit data handling
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1127confALIAS_WAIT 10 Oa Wait (in minutes) for alias
1128 file rebuild.
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1129confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS 4 Ob Minimum number of free blocks
1130 on queue filesystem to accept
1131 SMTP mail.
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1132confBLANK_SUB . OB Blank (space) substitution
1133 character.
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1134confCON_EXPENSIVE False Oc Avoid connecting immediately
1135 to mailers marked expensive?
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1136confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL 10 OC Checkpoint queue files
1137 every N recipients.
1138confDELIVERY_MODE background Od Default delivery mode.
1139confAUTO_REBUILD False OD Automatically rebuild
1140 alias file if needed.
1141confERROR_MODE (undefined) Oe Error message mode.
1142confERROR_MESSAGE (undefined) OE Error message header/file.
1143confSAVE_FROM_LINES False Of Save extra leading
1144 From_ lines.
1145confTEMP_FILE_MODE 0600 OF Temporary file mode.
1146confDEF_GROUP_ID 1 Og Default group id.
1147confMATCH_GECOS False OG Match GECOS field.
1148confMAX_HOP 17 Oh Maximum hop count.
fb32c2a1 1149confIGNORE_DOTS False Oi * Ignore dot as terminator
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1151confBIND_OPTS (empty) OI Default options for BIND.
fb32c2a1 1152confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS True Oj * Send error messages as MIME-
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1154 RFC 1344.
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1155confFORWARD_PATH (undefined) OJ The colon-separated list of
1156 places to search for .forward
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1158 Notes section.
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1159confMCI_CACHE_SIZE 2 Ok Size of open connection cache.
1160confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT 5m OK Open connection cache timeout.
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1161confUSE_ERRORS_TO False Ol * Use the Errors-To: header to
1162 deliver error messages. This
1163 should not be necessary because
1164 of general acceptance of the
1165 envelope/header distinction.
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1166confLOG_LEVEL 9 OL Log level.
1167confME_TOO False Om Include sender in group
1168 expansions.
1169confCHECK_ALIASES True On Check RHS of aliases when
1170 running newaliases.
fb32c2a1 1171confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS True Oo * Assume that headers without
a151c868 1172 special chars are old style.
4c230f32 1173confDAEMON_OPTIONS (undefined) OO SMTP daemon options.
88ce9b1c 1174confPRIVACY_FLAGS authwarnings Op Privacy flags.
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1175confCOPY_ERRORS_TO (undefined) OP Address for additional copies
1176 of all error messages.
1177confQUEUE_FACTOR (undefined) Oq Slope of queue-only function
33f90dbe 1178confREAD_TIMEOUT (undefined) Or SMTP read timeouts.
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1179confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES False OR Don't prune down route-addr
1180 syntax addresses to the
1181 minimum possible.
fb32c2a1 1182confSAFE_QUEUE True Os * Commit all messages to disk
a151c868 1183 before forking.
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1184confMESSAGE_TIMEOUT 5d/4h OT Timeout for messages before
1185 sending error/warning message.
386fe59f 1186confTIME_ZONE USE_SYSTEM Ot Time zone info -- can be
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1188 idea, USE_TZ to use the user's
1189 TZ envariable, or something
1190 else to force that value.
1191confDEF_USER_ID 1 Ou Default user id.
39ed20b0 1192confUSERDB_SPEC (undefined) OU User database specification.
4c230f32 1193confFALLBACK_MX (undefined) OV Fallback MX host.
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1194confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST False Ow If we are the best MX for a
1195 host and haven't made other
1196 arrangements, try connecting
1197 to the host directly; normally
1198 this would be a config error.
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1199confQUEUE_LA 8 Ox Load average at which queue-only
1200 function kicks in.
1201confREFUSE_LA 12 OX Load average at which incoming
1202 SMTP connections are refused.
a151c868 1203confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR
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1205confSEPARATE_PROC False OY Run all deliveries in a
1206 separate process.
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1207confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR (undefined) Oz Priority multiplier for class.
1208confWORK_TIME_FACTOR (undefined) OZ Cost of each delivery attempt.
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1209confCW_FILE /etc/sendmail.cw Name of file used to get the
1210 Fw local additions to the $=w
1211 class.
2e9b6f6e 1212confSMTP_MAILER smtp - The mailer name used when
cf36aa8d 1213 SMTP connectivity is required.
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1215 "esmtp".
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1216confLOCAL_MAILER local - The mailer name used when
1217 local connectivity is required.
1218 Almost always "local".
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1219confRELAY_MAILER relay - The default mailer name used
1220 for relaying any mail (e.g.,
1221 to a BITNET_RELAY, a
1222 SMART_HOST, or whatever).
1223 This can reasonably be "suucp"
1224 if you are on a UUCP-connected
1225 site.
f7e8be31 1226confDOMAIN_NAME (undefined) Dj If defined, sets $j.
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1230| HIERARCHY |
1231+-----------+
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1232
1233Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit:
1234
1235m4 General support routines. These are typically
1236 very important and should not be changed without
fd82c288 1237 very careful consideration.
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1239cf The configuration files themselves. They have
1240 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to
1241 become complete. The resulting output should
1242 have a ".cf" suffix.
1243
1244ostype Definitions describing a particular operating
1245 system type. These should always be referenced
1246 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples
1247 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and
1248 "sunos4.1".
1249
1250domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced
1251 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are
1252 site dependent; for example, we contribute "cs.exposed.m4"
1253 and "cs.hidden.m4" which both describe hosts in the
1254 CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain; the former displays the local
1255 hostname (e.g., mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU), whereas the
1256 latter does its best to hide the identity of the local
1257 workstation inside the CS subdomain.
1258
1259mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using
1260 the MAILER macro in the .mc file.
1261
1262sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the
1263 .mc file in the cf subdirectory.
1264
1265feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might
1266 want to include. They should be referenced using
1267 the FEATURE macro.
1268
1269hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK
1270 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic
1271 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows?
6fb312a3 1272 We've all got our own peccadillos.
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1275 UUCP sites.
1276
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1279| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS |
1280+------------------------+
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1281
1282The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the
1283sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify
1284the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these
1285should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more).
1286
1287RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail)
1288
1289 0 * Parsing
1290 1 * Sender rewriting
1291 2 * Recipient rewriting
1292 3 * Canonicalization
1293 4 * Post cleanup
f5baef19 1294 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing)
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1295 1x mailer rules (sender qualification)
1296 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification)
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1297 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification)
1298 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification)
1299 5x mailer subroutines (general)
1300 6x mailer subroutines (general)
1301 7x mailer subroutines (general)
1302 8x reserved
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1304 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail)
1305 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail)
5dd53c38 1306 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail)
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1308
1309MAILERS
1310
1311 0 local, prog local and program mailers
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1312 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel
1313 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
bee9d799 1314 3 netnews Network News delivery
63013ec3 1315 4 fax Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software
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1318MACROS
1319
1320 A
1321 B Bitnet Relay
72a40e6d 1322 C
f5baef19 1323 D The local domain -- usually not needed
7ace9d88 1324 E
63013ec3 1325 F FAX Relay
7ace9d88 1326 G
34e49bd3 1327 H mail Hub (for mail clusters)
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1329 J
1330 K
b0abd8b1 1331 L Luser Relay
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1332 M Masquerade (who I claim to be)
1333 N
1334 O
1335 P
1336 Q
1337 R Relay (for unqualified names)
28b51619 1338 S Smart Host
7ace9d88 1339 T
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1341 V UUCP Relay (class V hosts)
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1343 X UUCP Relay (class X hosts)
c573210d 1344 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts)
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1346
1347
1348CLASSES
1349
1350 A
1351 B
1352 C
f4d9c9f9 1353 D "dotted" users
4a51b074 1354 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M
f5baef19 1355 F hosts we forward for
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1357 H
1358 I
1359 J
1360 K
1361 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R
1362 M
1363 N
1364 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names)
91626fee 1365 P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, FAX, UUCP, etc.
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1367 R
1368 S
1369 T
1370 U locally connected UUCP hosts
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1372 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W
1373 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X
1374 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts
2e9b6f6e 1375 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts
f5baef19 1376 . the class containing only a dot
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1382 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions
1383 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions
9df1b56b 1384 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions
c573210d 1385 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R)
f5baef19 1386 6 local configuration (at top of file)
7ace9d88 1387 7 mailer definitions
32f9e686 1388 8
06630be3 1389 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2)