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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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e4c0b131 7 @(#)README 8.48 (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
7b97409d 142 list of names (but be sure you quote values with
e4c0b131 143 commas in them -- for example, use
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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.
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159LOCAL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If defined, the maximum size of local
160 mail that you are willing to accept.
bee9d799 161LOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email.
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162LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu] The flags used by the shell mailer. The
163 flags lsDFM are always included.
164LOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog"
165 mail.
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166LOCAL_SHELL_DIR [$z:/] The directory search path in which the
167 shell should run.
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168USENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program
169 used to submit news.
170USENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rlsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer.
171USENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the
172 usenet mailer.
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173USENET_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size of messages that will
174 be accepted by the usenet mailer.
5dd53c38 175SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default
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176 flags are `mDFMUX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the
177 "esmtp" mailer adds `a' and "smtp8" adds `8'.
4e444ec8 178SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will
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179 be transported using the smtp, smtp8, or esmtp
180 mailers.
181SMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer.
182 About the only reason you would want to change this
183 would be to change the default port.
184ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer.
185SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer.
186RELAY_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer.
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187UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default
188 flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for suucp mailer, minus
189 `U' for uucp-dom mailer).
baf83fd6 190UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$g -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments
d8b2ad36 191 passed to the UUCP mailer.
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192UUCP_MAX_SIZE [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
193 transmission by the UUCP mailers.
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194FAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to
195 submit FAX messages.
196FAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
197 transmission by FAX.
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198POP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/mh/spop] The pathname of the POP mailer.
199POP_MAILER_FLAGS [Penu] Flags added to POP mailer. Flags "lsDFM"
200 are always added.
201POP_MAILER_ARGS [pop $u] The arguments passed to the POP mailer.
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202PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [Shu] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags
203 ``DFMmn'' are always set.
204PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to
205 the Procmail mailer.
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206PROCMAIL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If set, the maximum size message that
207 will be accepted by the procmail mailer.
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209+---------+
210| DOMAINS |
211+---------+
212
213You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one
214file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, our Berkeley
215domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished
216hosts:
217
218UUCP_RELAY The host that will forward UUCP-addressed email.
219 If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly
bb3c21c3 220 connected.
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221BITNET_RELAY The host that will forward BITNET-addressed email.
222 If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work.
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223LOCAL_RELAY The site that will handle unqualified names -- that
224 is, names with out an @domain extension. If not set,
225 they are assumed to belong on this machine. This
226 allows you to have a central site to store a
227 company- or department-wide alias database. This
228 only works at small sites, and there are better
bb3c21c3 229 methods.
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230LUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently
231 local names that aren't local accounts or aliases.
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b0abd8b1 233Any of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the
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234mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``suucp'' and the hostname
235is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a
236``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'',
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237a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX
238record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to
239have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back
240to yourself.
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242The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed
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243(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts
244at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use
245MASQUERADE_AS here.
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247You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a
248single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than
249it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent
250knowledge" into one place.
251
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253| MAILERS |
254+---------+
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256There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous
257version, owing mostly to a simpler world.
258
259local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always
260 need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL
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261 your mail to another site. This mailer is included
262 automatically.
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264smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does
265 not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other
266 such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is
d8b2ad36 267 running the name server. This file actually defines
b0abd8b1 268 four mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to
d8b2ad36 269 other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other
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270 servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without
271 converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is
272 your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit
273 clean even if it doesn't say so), and "relay" for
274 transmission to our RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or
275 MAILER_HUB.
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277uucp The Unix-to-Unix Copy Program mailer. Actually, this
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278 defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and
279 "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you
280 know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle
281 multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer
282 is also included in your configuration, two other mailers
283 ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined. When you
284 include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in
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285 the $=U class and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all
286 names in the $=Y class are sent to uucp-new; and all
287 names in the $=Z class are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that
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288 this is a function of what version of rmail runs on
289 the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control.
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290 See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more
291 detail.
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293usenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified,
294 an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all
295 local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the
296 ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups,
297 and may be considered a security problem.
298
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299fax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based
300 on Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software. For more information,
301 see below.
302
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304
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305procmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail).
306 This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example,
307 a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given
308 domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer
309 defined, you could set up a mailertable reading:
310
311 host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com
312
313 with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading:
314
315 :0 # forward mail for host.com
316 ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host
317
318 This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent
319 to person@other.host. Within the procmail script, $1 is
320 the name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient.
321 If you use this with FEATURE(local_procmail), the FEATURE
322 should be listed first.
323
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324The local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where
325the "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available
69982d42 326to certain local mail programs (in particular, see FEATURE(local_procmail)).
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327For example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and "eric+sww" all indicate
328the same user, but additional arguments <null>, "sendmail", and "sww"
329may be provided for use in sorting mail.
330
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333| FEATURES |
334+----------+
335
336Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For
337example, the .mc line:
338
339 FEATURE(use_cw_file)
340
341tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/sendmail.cw
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342file to get values for class $=w. The FEATURE may contain a single
343optional parameter -- for example:
344
345 FEATURE(mailertable, dbm /usr/lib/mailertable)
346
347Available features are:
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349use_cw_file Read the file /etc/sendmail.cw file to get alternate
350 names for this host. This might be used if you were
351 on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other
352 hosts. If the set is static, just including the line
353 "Cw<name1> <name2> ..." is probably superior.
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354 The actual filename can be overridden by redefining
355 confCW_FILE.
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357redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with
358 a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message.
359 If this is set, you can alias people who have left
360 to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.
f51c9ac8 361
a33031f5 362nouucp Don't do anything special with UUCP addresses at all.
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364nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification.
365 This would generally only be used by sites that only
366 act as mail gateways or which have user agents that do
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367 full canonification themselves. You may also want to
368 use "define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to
369 turn off the usual resolver options that do a similar
370 thing.
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65739042 372stickyhost If set, email sent to "user@local.host" are marked
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373 as "sticky" -- that is, the local addresses aren't
374 matched against UDB and don't go through ruleset 5.
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375 This is used if you want a set up where "user" is
376 not necessarily the same as "user@local.host", e.g.,
377 to make a distinct domain-wide namespace. Prior to
378 8.7 this was the default, and notsticky was used to
379 turn this off.
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381mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override
382 routing for particular domains. The argument of the
383 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
384 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 385 hash -o /etc/mailertable
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386 Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names
387 or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example,
388 "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU".
389 Values must be of the form:
3ad658d7 390 mailer:domain
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391 where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain"
392 is where to send the message. These maps are not
393 reflected into the message header.
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d8b2ad36 395domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide
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396 domain name mapping. Use of this should really be
397 limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you
398 change names (e.g., your company changes names from
399 oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the
400 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
401 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 402 hash -o /etc/domaintable
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403 The key in this table is the domain name; the value is
404 the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the
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405 domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this
406 is done in ruleset 3.
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408bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into
409 internet addresses. The table can be built using the
2e9b6f6e 410 bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers.
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411 The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if
412 none is specified, the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 413 hash -o /etc/bitdomain.db
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414 Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding
415 internet hostname.
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417uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition
418 is:
6e8cccfc 419 hash -o /etc/uudomain.db
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420 At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this
421 database.
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423always_add_domain
424 Include the local host domain even on locally delivered
425 mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already
426 present.
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428allmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this
429 feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade
430 as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get
431 the local hostname. Although this may be right for
432 ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example,
433 if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will
434 find that alias and send to all members, but send the
435 message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that
436 alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this
437 feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE
438 namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the
439 local entries.
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441nodns We aren't running DNS at our site (for example,
442 we are UUCP-only connected). It's hard to consider
443 this a "feature", but hey, it had to go somewhere.
4a51b074 444
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445nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a stripped down
446 configuration file containing nothing but support for
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447 forwarding all mail to a central hub via a local
448 SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that
449 hub.
450
451 The only other feature that should be used in conjunction
452 with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to
453 be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally
454 they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which
455 defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers
456 should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done.
f51c9ac8 457
69982d42 458local_procmail Use procmail as the local mailer. This mailer can
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459 make use of the "user+indicator@local.host" syntax;
460 normally the +indicator is just tossed, but by default
461 it is passed as the -a argument to procmail. The
462 argument to this feature is the pathname of procmail,
463 which defaults to /usr/local/bin/procmail.
464
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465bestmx_is_local Accept mail as though locally addressed for any host that
466 lists us as the best possible MX record. This generates
467 additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to
468 medium traffic hosts.
469
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470smrsh Use the SendMail Restricted SHell (smrsh) provided
471 with the distribution instead of /bin/sh for mailing
472 to programs. This improves the ability of the local
473 system administrator to control what gets run via
474 e-mail. If an argument is provided it is used as the
475 pathname to smrsh; otherwise, /usr/local/etc/smrsh is
476 assumed.
477
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479+-------+
480| HACKS |
481+-------+
482
483Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear,
fd82c288 484they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK
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485macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release
486includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes
487sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU;
488this is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into
489subdomains.
490
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493| SITE CONFIGURATION |
494+--------------------+
495
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496 *****************************************************
497 * This section is really obsolete, and is preserved *
498 * only for back compatibility. You should plan on *
499 * using mailertables for new installations. In *
500 * particular, it doesn't work for the newer forms *
501 * of UUCP mailers, such as uucp-uudom. *
502 *****************************************************
503
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505lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more
506tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc.
507
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508If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment
509the $=w class. This is a list of names by which you are known, and
510anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
511treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create
512the file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per
513line), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the
514line:
515
516 Cw alias.host.name
517
518at the end of that file. See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example.
519Be sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a
520short name.
521
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523configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For
524example, the line
525
526 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U)
527
528reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The
529second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since
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531parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in
532this case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store
533the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads
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535 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W)
536
537This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites
538connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. The $=W class will be used to
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540is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa
541are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left
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543might do this.]
544
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546special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the
547local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name
548is entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP.
549
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551more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For
552example:
553
554 SITE(cnmat)
555 SITE(sgi olympus)
556
557The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the
558same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at
559least in the same company).
560
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563| USING UUCP MAILERS |
564+--------------------+
565
566It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc
567nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed
568for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites.
569
570There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to
571use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at
572the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that
573define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you
574should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have
575to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages
576people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid
577UUCP, please do.
578
579The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a
580non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other
581end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the
582other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses
583don't work entirely properly.
584
585The four mailers are:
586
587 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp")
588 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of
589 sending messages accros UUCP connections. It does bangify
590 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's
591 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can
592 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of
593 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all
594 possible.
595
596 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp")
597 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail
598 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a
599 lot of other problems.
600
601 uucp-dom
602 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses.
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604 is only included if MAILER(smtp) is also specified.
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606 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require
607 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use
608 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope
609 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So....
610
611 uucp-uudom
612 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses)
613 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the
614 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the
615 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address
616 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name
617 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of
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619 is also specified.
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621Examples:
622
623We are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"). The
624following summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers.
625
626Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope
627------ ------ -------------------------
628uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf
629uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
630uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf
631
632uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf
633uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net
634uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf
635
636uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf
637uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
638uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf
639
640If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want
641to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will
642do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example,
643if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo),
644the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to
645this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it
646will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain
647feature.
648
649
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651| TWEAKING RULESETS |
652+-------------------+
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654For more complex configurations, you can define special rules.
655The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing
656the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header.
657
658A common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using
659the UUCPSMTP macro. For example:
660
661 LOCAL_RULE_3
662 UUCPSMTP(decvax, decvax.dec.com)
663 UUCPSMTP(research, research.att.com)
664
665will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user"
666to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com"
667respectively.
668
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671 LOCAL_RULE_3
672 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3
673
674This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below.
675
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677For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept
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679
680 LOCAL_RULE_0
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683You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU
684pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on
685using UUCP.
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688These rulesets are normally empty.
689
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691boilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to
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694 LOCAL_CONFIG
695 Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db
696 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname
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700| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
701+---------------------------+
702
703You can have your host masquerade as another using
704
705 MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain)
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6fb312a3 707This causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the
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6fb312a3 709of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would
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711
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713that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a
714CNAME.
715
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717internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.
718Root is an example. You can add users to this list using
719
720 EXPOSED_USER(usernames)
721
722This adds users to class E; you could also use something like
723
724 FE/etc/sendmail.cE
725
726You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names
727without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central
728email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have
729to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using
730
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734"smtp". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps
735because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be
736locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using
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738 LOCAL_USER(usernames)
739
740This adds users to class L; you could also use something like
741
742 FL/etc/sendmail.cL
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745shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use
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28b51619 749Again, ``mailer:'' defaults to "smtp". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY
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751other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. Names in $=L will be
752delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or .forward files for them.
753
754For example, if are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU, the following
28b51619 755combinations of settings will have the indicated effects:
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757email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
758
759LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally)
760mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU
761
762MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
763mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
764
765Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
766MAIL_HUB set as above
767
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769SMART_HOST as well. Briefly:
770
771 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric").
772 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
773 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU").
774 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.
775
776However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, and
777FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you really want
778absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will need to
779unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a minimal
780config file that does this.
781
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784| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |
785+-------------------------------+
786
787These configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based
788sites. I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or
789UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net
790connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is one
791hook to handle some special cases.
792
793You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax
794using:
795
796 define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname)
797
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800
801If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside
802world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules.
803For example:
804
805 define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet)
806 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
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809This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via
810SMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet.
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812the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is
813not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to
814use:
815
816 define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com)
817 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
818 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3
819
820That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup;
821anything else goes through SMART_HOST.
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824FEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting
825for the name server to come up.
826
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829| WHO AM I? |
830+-----------+
831
832Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully
833qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your
834host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the
835result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns
836only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is
837supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare)
838cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case
839you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain
840name. This is usually done using:
841
842 Dmbar.com
843 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl
844
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847| USING MAILERTABLES |
848+--------------------+
849
850To use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external
851database containing the routing information for various domains.
852For example, a mailertable file in text format might be:
853
854 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain
855 uuhost1.my.domain suucp:uuhost1
856 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net
857
858This should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable. The actual
859database version of the mailertable is built using:
860
861 makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
862
863The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with
864a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning
865with a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is,
866they can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard. Matching
867is done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even
868though ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry
869of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is
870more explicit.
871
872The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the
873configuration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the
874sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to
875that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading
876dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of
877the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything
878addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using
879the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer.
880
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882particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX
883everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it
884directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration:
885
886 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine
887
888and on relay.machine use the mailertable:
889
890 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain]
891
892The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only.
893If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record
894again, which would give you an MX loop.
895
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898| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
899+--------------------------------+
900
901The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
902to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
903it that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
904purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
905is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
906a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
907
908If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
65739042 909imperative that you not use FEATURE(stickyhost) -- otherwise,
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911
65739042 912To build the internal form of the user database, use:
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914 makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
915
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918| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES |
919+--------------------------------+
920
921DOTTED_USER(name)
922 Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a
923 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all
924 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be
925 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class
926 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this
927 using dotted users. For example, a client might include
928 the alias:
929
930 root: root.client1@server
931
932 On the server, the mail configuration would include:
933
934 DOTTED_USER(root)
935
936 Aliases on the server that would match this address would
937 be "root.client", "root.*", and "root", tried in that
938 order. You can specify multiple addresses either by
939 joining them in one DOTTTED_USER macro or by having
940 multiple macros:
941
942 DOTTED_USER(root)
943 DOTTED_USER(postmaster mailer-daemon)
944
945 defines three dotted users.
946
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949| SECURITY NOTES |
950+----------------+
951
952A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much
953more careful about checking for security problems than previous
954versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch
955for. In particular:
956
957* Make sure the aliases file isn't writable except by trusted
958 system personnel. This includes both the text and database
959 version.
960
961* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the
962 mailertable, is only writable by trusted system personnel.
963
964* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY
965 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root
966 user can chown any file they own to any other user).
967
968* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically
969 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone
970 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that
971 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a
972 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory).
973
974* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that
975 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in
976 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in
977 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before
978 files and programs listed in them will be honored).
979
980In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them
981off I recommend you do so.
982
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985| FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
986+------------------+
987
988Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a
989public version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93]. The following
990blurb is direct from Sam:
991
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994 How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)
d1ad6cf3 995 --------------------------------------------------------------
63013ec3 996 The source code is available for public ftp on
d1ad6cf3 997 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z
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999
1000 You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from
d1ad6cf3 1001 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar
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1003
1004 For example,
1005 % ftp -n sgi.com
1006 ....
1007 ftp> user anonymous
1008 ... <type in password>
1009 ftp> cd sgi/fax
1010 ftp> binary
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1012
1013 In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is
1014 always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp
1015 directory. This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so
1016 don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of
1017 the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older
1018 versions of the source code. For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would
1019 contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z. (Note to beta testers: this is
1020 different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch
1021 files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are
1022 multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply
1023 each patch file between your current version and the latest.
1024
1025
1026 Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail
1027 -----------------------------------------
1028 Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without
1029 response). If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
1030 "ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com: you can send e-mail to
1031 this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you
1032 the files back again via e-mail. To find out more about the ftpmail
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1034 consists of the single line "help".
1035
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1037 Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics
1038 ----------------------------------------------
63013ec3 1039 Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
d1ad6cf3 1040 flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist. Thus you can do something like:
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d1ad6cf3 1042 % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax
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d1ad6cf3 1044 to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
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1047 What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff
1048 --------------------------------------
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1050 file. To extract the source distribution:
1051
d1ad6cf3 1052 % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf -
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1054 (uncompress and extract individual files in current directory). To
1055 unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution:
1056
1057 % mkdir dist
d1ad6cf3 1058 % cd dist; tar xf ../v2.1.inst.tar; cd ..
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1060 ...
1061 inst> go
1062
1063 (Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if
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1065 included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*. They are not
1066 installed by default, so to get them also you need to do:
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1068 % inst -f flexfax
1069 ...
1070 inst> install flexfax.server.*
1071 inst> go
1072
d1ad6cf3 1073 The SGI binaries were built for Version 4.0.5H of the IRIX operating
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1075 system, but I have not fully tested this. Also, note that to install a
1076 server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display
1077 PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe). Otherwise, the fax
1078 server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for
1079 transmission.
1080
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1081 If you are working from the source distribution, look at the file
1082 README in the top of the source tree. If you are working from the inst
1083 images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and
1084 other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in
1085 the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax). Basically you will need to run
1086 the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem. Consult
1087 the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information.
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1090 FlexFAX Mail List
1091 -----------------
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1092 A mailing list for users of this software is located on sgi.com.
1093 If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request
1094 such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to
1095
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1096 majordomo@whizzer.wpd.sgi.com
1097
1098 For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in
1099 the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of
1100 the commands understood by the mailing list management software.
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1102 Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to:
1103
1104 flexfax@sgi.com
1105
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1106 When corresponding about this software please always specify what
1107 version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is
1108 specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision.
1109
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1111+--------------------------------+
1112| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |
1113+--------------------------------+
1114
1115There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally
1116need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you
1117can define the following M4 variables. This list is shown in four
1118columns: the name you define, the default value for that definition,
1119the option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx
1120for a macro), and a brief description. Greater detail of the semantics
1121can be found in the Installation and Operations Guide.
1122
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1124the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are
1125marked with "*".
1126
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1127Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to
1128be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to
1129be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma
1130confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for
1131the read timeout.
1132
a151c868 1133M4 Variable Name Default Mac/Opt Description
a7e36c1b 1134================ ======= ======= ===========
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1135confMAILER_NAME MAILER-DAEMON Dn The sender name used for
1136 internally generated
1137 outgoing messages.
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1138confFROM_LINE From $g $d Dl The From_ line used when
1139 sending to files or programs.
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1140confFROM_HEADER $?x$x <$g>$|$g$. The format of an internally
1141 Dq generated From: address.
1d64a22c 1142confOPERATORS .:%@!^/[]+ Do Address operator characters.
2e9b6f6e 1143confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG $j Sendmail $v/$Z ready at $b
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1144 De The initial (spontaneous)
1145 SMTP greeting message.
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1146confRECEIVED_HEADER $?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u for $u$.; $b
1147 HReceived
1148 The format of the Received:
1149 header in messages passed
1150 through this host. It is
1151 unwise to try to change this.
f6232b5e 1152confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT False O7 Force input to seven bits?
eb802161 1153confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING pass8 O8 8-bit data handling
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1154confALIAS_WAIT 10 Oa Wait (in minutes) for alias
1155 file rebuild.
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1156confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS 4 Ob Minimum number of free blocks
1157 on queue filesystem to accept
1158 SMTP mail.
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1159confBLANK_SUB . OB Blank (space) substitution
1160 character.
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1161confCON_EXPENSIVE False Oc Avoid connecting immediately
1162 to mailers marked expensive?
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1163confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL 10 OC Checkpoint queue files
1164 every N recipients.
1165confDELIVERY_MODE background Od Default delivery mode.
1166confAUTO_REBUILD False OD Automatically rebuild
1167 alias file if needed.
1168confERROR_MODE (undefined) Oe Error message mode.
1169confERROR_MESSAGE (undefined) OE Error message header/file.
1170confSAVE_FROM_LINES False Of Save extra leading
1171 From_ lines.
1172confTEMP_FILE_MODE 0600 OF Temporary file mode.
1173confDEF_GROUP_ID 1 Og Default group id.
1174confMATCH_GECOS False OG Match GECOS field.
1175confMAX_HOP 17 Oh Maximum hop count.
fb32c2a1 1176confIGNORE_DOTS False Oi * Ignore dot as terminator
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1178confBIND_OPTS (empty) OI Default options for BIND.
fb32c2a1 1179confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS True Oj * Send error messages as MIME-
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1181 RFC 1344.
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1182confFORWARD_PATH (undefined) OJ The colon-separated list of
1183 places to search for .forward
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1185 Notes section.
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1186confMCI_CACHE_SIZE 2 Ok Size of open connection cache.
1187confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT 5m OK Open connection cache timeout.
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1189 deliver error messages. This
1190 should not be necessary because
1191 of general acceptance of the
1192 envelope/header distinction.
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1193confLOG_LEVEL 9 OL Log level.
1194confME_TOO False Om Include sender in group
1195 expansions.
1196confCHECK_ALIASES True On Check RHS of aliases when
1197 running newaliases.
fb32c2a1 1198confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS True Oo * Assume that headers without
a151c868 1199 special chars are old style.
4c230f32 1200confDAEMON_OPTIONS (undefined) OO SMTP daemon options.
88ce9b1c 1201confPRIVACY_FLAGS authwarnings Op Privacy flags.
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1202confCOPY_ERRORS_TO (undefined) OP Address for additional copies
1203 of all error messages.
1204confQUEUE_FACTOR (undefined) Oq Slope of queue-only function
33f90dbe 1205confREAD_TIMEOUT (undefined) Or SMTP read timeouts.
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1206confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES False OR Don't prune down route-addr
1207 syntax addresses to the
1208 minimum possible.
fb32c2a1 1209confSAFE_QUEUE True Os * Commit all messages to disk
a151c868 1210 before forking.
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1211confMESSAGE_TIMEOUT 5d/4h OT Timeout for messages before
1212 sending error/warning message.
386fe59f 1213confTIME_ZONE USE_SYSTEM Ot Time zone info -- can be
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1215 idea, USE_TZ to use the user's
1216 TZ envariable, or something
1217 else to force that value.
1218confDEF_USER_ID 1 Ou Default user id.
39ed20b0 1219confUSERDB_SPEC (undefined) OU User database specification.
4c230f32 1220confFALLBACK_MX (undefined) OV Fallback MX host.
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1222 host and haven't made other
1223 arrangements, try connecting
1224 to the host directly; normally
1225 this would be a config error.
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1226confQUEUE_LA 8 Ox Load average at which queue-only
1227 function kicks in.
1228confREFUSE_LA 12 OX Load average at which incoming
1229 SMTP connections are refused.
a151c868 1230confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR
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1232confSEPARATE_PROC False OY Run all deliveries in a
1233 separate process.
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1234confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR (undefined) Oz Priority multiplier for class.
1235confWORK_TIME_FACTOR (undefined) OZ Cost of each delivery attempt.
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1236confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER Priority O QueueSortOrder
1237 Queue sort algorithm:
1238 Priority or Host.
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1239confCW_FILE /etc/sendmail.cw Name of file used to get the
1240 Fw local additions to the $=w
1241 class.
2e9b6f6e 1242confSMTP_MAILER smtp - The mailer name used when
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1245 "esmtp".
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1246confLOCAL_MAILER local - The mailer name used when
1247 local connectivity is required.
1248 Almost always "local".
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1249confRELAY_MAILER relay - The default mailer name used
1250 for relaying any mail (e.g.,
1251 to a BITNET_RELAY, a
1252 SMART_HOST, or whatever).
1253 This can reasonably be "suucp"
1254 if you are on a UUCP-connected
1255 site.
f7e8be31 1256confDOMAIN_NAME (undefined) Dj If defined, sets $j.
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1259+-----------+
1260| HIERARCHY |
1261+-----------+
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1262
1263Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit:
1264
1265m4 General support routines. These are typically
1266 very important and should not be changed without
fd82c288 1267 very careful consideration.
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1269cf The configuration files themselves. They have
1270 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to
1271 become complete. The resulting output should
1272 have a ".cf" suffix.
1273
1274ostype Definitions describing a particular operating
1275 system type. These should always be referenced
1276 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples
1277 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and
1278 "sunos4.1".
1279
1280domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced
1281 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are
1282 site dependent; for example, we contribute "cs.exposed.m4"
1283 and "cs.hidden.m4" which both describe hosts in the
1284 CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain; the former displays the local
1285 hostname (e.g., mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU), whereas the
1286 latter does its best to hide the identity of the local
1287 workstation inside the CS subdomain.
1288
1289mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using
1290 the MAILER macro in the .mc file.
1291
1292sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the
1293 .mc file in the cf subdirectory.
1294
1295feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might
1296 want to include. They should be referenced using
1297 the FEATURE macro.
1298
1299hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK
1300 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic
1301 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows?
6fb312a3 1302 We've all got our own peccadillos.
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1305 UUCP sites.
1306
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1309| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS |
1310+------------------------+
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1311
1312The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the
1313sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify
1314the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these
1315should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more).
1316
1317RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail)
1318
1319 0 * Parsing
1320 1 * Sender rewriting
1321 2 * Recipient rewriting
1322 3 * Canonicalization
1323 4 * Post cleanup
f5baef19 1324 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing)
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1326 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification)
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1328 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification)
1329 5x mailer subroutines (general)
1330 6x mailer subroutines (general)
1331 7x mailer subroutines (general)
1332 8x reserved
b197efaa 1333 90 Mailertable host stripping
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1335 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail)
5dd53c38 1336 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail)
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1338
1339MAILERS
1340
1341 0 local, prog local and program mailers
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1343 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
bee9d799 1344 3 netnews Network News delivery
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1347
1348MACROS
1349
1350 A
1351 B Bitnet Relay
72a40e6d 1352 C
f5baef19 1353 D The local domain -- usually not needed
7ace9d88 1354 E
63013ec3 1355 F FAX Relay
7ace9d88 1356 G
34e49bd3 1357 H mail Hub (for mail clusters)
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1359 J
1360 K
b0abd8b1 1361 L Luser Relay
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1363 N
1364 O
1365 P
1366 Q
1367 R Relay (for unqualified names)
28b51619 1368 S Smart Host
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1371 V UUCP Relay (class V hosts)
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1373 X UUCP Relay (class X hosts)
c573210d 1374 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts)
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1376
1377
1378CLASSES
1379
1380 A
1381 B
1382 C
f4d9c9f9 1383 D "dotted" users
4a51b074 1384 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M
f5baef19 1385 F hosts we forward for
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1387 H
1388 I
1389 J
1390 K
1391 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R
1392 M
1393 N
1394 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names)
91626fee 1395 P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, FAX, UUCP, etc.
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1397 R
1398 S
1399 T
1400 U locally connected UUCP hosts
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1402 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W
1403 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X
1404 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts
2e9b6f6e 1405 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts
f5baef19 1406 . the class containing only a dot
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1410
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1412 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions
1413 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions
9df1b56b 1414 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions
c573210d 1415 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R)
f5baef19 1416 6 local configuration (at top of file)
7ace9d88 1417 7 mailer definitions
32f9e686 1418 8
06630be3 1419 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2)