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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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d015fbfb 7 @(#)README 8.42 (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 $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog"
163 mail.
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164LOCAL_SHELL_DIR [$z:/] The directory search path in which the
165 shell should run.
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166USENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program
167 used to submit news.
168USENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rlsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer.
169USENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the
170 usenet mailer.
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171USENET_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size of messages that will
172 be accepted by the usenet mailer.
5dd53c38 173SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default
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174 flags are `mDFMUX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the
175 "esmtp" mailer adds `a' and "smtp8" adds `8'.
4e444ec8 176SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will
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177 be transported using the smtp, smtp8, or esmtp
178 mailers.
179SMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer.
180 About the only reason you would want to change this
181 would be to change the default port.
182ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer.
183SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer.
184RELAY_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer.
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185UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default
186 flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for suucp mailer, minus
187 `U' for uucp-dom mailer).
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188UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$f -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments
189 passed to the UUCP mailer.
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190UUCP_MAX_SIZE [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
191 transmission by the UUCP mailers.
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192FAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to
193 submit FAX messages.
194FAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
195 transmission by FAX.
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196POP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/mh/spop] The pathname of the POP mailer.
197POP_MAILER_FLAGS [Penu] Flags added to POP mailer. Flags "lsDFM"
198 are always added.
199POP_MAILER_ARGS [pop $u] The arguments passed to the POP mailer.
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200PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [Shu] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags
201 ``DFMmn'' are always set.
202PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to
203 the Procmail mailer.
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205+---------+
206| DOMAINS |
207+---------+
208
209You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one
210file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, our Berkeley
211domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished
212hosts:
213
214UUCP_RELAY The host that will forward UUCP-addressed email.
215 If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly
bb3c21c3 216 connected.
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217BITNET_RELAY The host that will forward BITNET-addressed email.
218 If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work.
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219LOCAL_RELAY The site that will handle unqualified names -- that
220 is, names with out an @domain extension. If not set,
221 they are assumed to belong on this machine. This
222 allows you to have a central site to store a
223 company- or department-wide alias database. This
224 only works at small sites, and there are better
bb3c21c3 225 methods.
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226LUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently
227 local names that aren't local accounts or aliases.
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b0abd8b1 229Any of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the
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230mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``suucp'' and the hostname
231is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a
232``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'',
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233a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX
234record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to
235have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back
236to yourself.
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238The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed
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239(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts
240at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use
241MASQUERADE_AS here.
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243You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a
244single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than
245it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent
246knowledge" into one place.
247
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248+---------+
249| MAILERS |
250+---------+
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252There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous
253version, owing mostly to a simpler world.
254
255local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always
256 need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL
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257 your mail to another site. This mailer is included
258 automatically.
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260smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does
261 not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other
262 such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is
d8b2ad36 263 running the name server. This file actually defines
b0abd8b1 264 four mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to
d8b2ad36 265 other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other
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266 servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without
267 converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is
268 your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit
269 clean even if it doesn't say so), and "relay" for
270 transmission to our RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or
271 MAILER_HUB.
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273uucp The Unix-to-Unix Copy Program mailer. Actually, this
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274 defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and
275 "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you
276 know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle
277 multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer
278 is also included in your configuration, two other mailers
279 ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined. When you
280 include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in
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281 the $=U class and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all
282 names in the $=Y class are sent to uucp-new; and all
283 names in the $=Z class are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that
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284 this is a function of what version of rmail runs on
285 the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control.
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286 See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more
287 detail.
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289usenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified,
290 an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all
291 local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the
292 ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups,
293 and may be considered a security problem.
294
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295fax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based
296 on Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software. For more information,
297 see below.
298
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299pop Post Office Protocol.
300
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301procmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail).
302 This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example,
303 a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given
304 domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer
305 defined, you could set up a mailertable reading:
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307 host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com
308
309 with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading:
310
311 :0 # forward mail for host.com
312 ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host
313
314 This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent
315 to person@other.host. Within the procmail script, $1 is
316 the name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient.
317 If you use this with FEATURE(local_procmail), the FEATURE
318 should be listed first.
319
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320The local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where
321the "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available
69982d42 322to certain local mail programs (in particular, see FEATURE(local_procmail)).
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323For example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and "eric+sww" all indicate
324the same user, but additional arguments <null>, "sendmail", and "sww"
325may be provided for use in sorting mail.
326
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329| FEATURES |
330+----------+
331
332Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For
333example, the .mc line:
334
335 FEATURE(use_cw_file)
336
337tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/sendmail.cw
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338file to get values for class $=w. The FEATURE may contain a single
339optional parameter -- for example:
340
341 FEATURE(mailertable, dbm /usr/lib/mailertable)
342
343Available features are:
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345use_cw_file Read the file /etc/sendmail.cw file to get alternate
346 names for this host. This might be used if you were
347 on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other
348 hosts. If the set is static, just including the line
349 "Cw<name1> <name2> ..." is probably superior.
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350 The actual filename can be overridden by redefining
351 confCW_FILE.
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353redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with
354 a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message.
355 If this is set, you can alias people who have left
356 to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.
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a33031f5 358nouucp Don't do anything special with UUCP addresses at all.
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360nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification.
361 This would generally only be used by sites that only
362 act as mail gateways or which have user agents that do
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363 full canonification themselves. You may also want to
364 use "define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to
365 turn off the usual resolver options that do a similar
366 thing.
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65739042 368stickyhost If set, email sent to "user@local.host" are marked
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369 as "sticky" -- that is, the local addresses aren't
370 matched against UDB and don't go through ruleset 5.
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371 This is used if you want a set up where "user" is
372 not necessarily the same as "user@local.host", e.g.,
373 to make a distinct domain-wide namespace. Prior to
374 8.7 this was the default, and notsticky was used to
375 turn this off.
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377mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override
378 routing for particular domains. The argument of the
379 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
380 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 381 hash -o /etc/mailertable
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382 Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names
383 or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example,
384 "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU".
385 Values must be of the form:
3ad658d7 386 mailer:domain
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387 where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain"
388 is where to send the message. These maps are not
389 reflected into the message header.
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d8b2ad36 391domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide
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392 domain name mapping. Use of this should really be
393 limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you
394 change names (e.g., your company changes names from
395 oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the
396 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
397 the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 398 hash -o /etc/domaintable
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399 The key in this table is the domain name; the value is
400 the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the
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401 domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this
402 is done in ruleset 3.
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404bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into
405 internet addresses. The table can be built using the
2e9b6f6e 406 bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers.
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407 The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if
408 none is specified, the definition used is:
6e8cccfc 409 hash -o /etc/bitdomain.db
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410 Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding
411 internet hostname.
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413uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition
414 is:
6e8cccfc 415 hash -o /etc/uudomain.db
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416 At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this
417 database.
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419always_add_domain
420 Include the local host domain even on locally delivered
421 mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already
422 present.
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424allmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this
425 feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade
426 as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get
427 the local hostname. Although this may be right for
428 ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example,
429 if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will
430 find that alias and send to all members, but send the
431 message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that
432 alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this
433 feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE
434 namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the
435 local entries.
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437nodns We aren't running DNS at our site (for example,
438 we are UUCP-only connected). It's hard to consider
439 this a "feature", but hey, it had to go somewhere.
4a51b074 440
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441nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a stripped down
442 configuration file containing nothing but support for
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443 forwarding all mail to a central hub via a local
444 SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that
445 hub.
446
447 The only other feature that should be used in conjunction
448 with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to
449 be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally
450 they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which
451 defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers
452 should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done.
f51c9ac8 453
69982d42 454local_procmail Use procmail as the local mailer. This mailer can
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455 make use of the "user+indicator@local.host" syntax;
456 normally the +indicator is just tossed, but by default
457 it is passed as the -a argument to procmail. The
458 argument to this feature is the pathname of procmail,
459 which defaults to /usr/local/bin/procmail.
460
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462+-------+
463| HACKS |
464+-------+
465
466Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear,
fd82c288 467they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK
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468macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release
469includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes
470sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU;
471this is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into
472subdomains.
473
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475+--------------------+
476| SITE CONFIGURATION |
477+--------------------+
478
479Complex sites will need more local configuration information, such as
480lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more
481tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc.
482
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483If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment
484the $=w class. This is a list of names by which you are known, and
485anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
486treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create
487the file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per
488line), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the
489line:
490
491 Cw alias.host.name
492
493at the end of that file. See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example.
494Be sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a
495short name.
496
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497The SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent
498configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For
499example, the line
500
501 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U)
502
503reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The
504second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since
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506parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in
507this case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store
508the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads
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510 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W)
511
512This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites
513connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. The $=W class will be used to
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515is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa
516are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left
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518might do this.]
519
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521special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the
522local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name
523is entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP.
524
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526more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For
527example:
528
529 SITE(cnmat)
530 SITE(sgi olympus)
531
532The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the
533same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at
534least in the same company).
535
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538| USING UUCP MAILERS |
539+--------------------+
540
541It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc
542nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed
543for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites.
544
545There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to
546use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at
547the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that
548define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you
549should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have
550to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages
551people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid
552UUCP, please do.
553
554The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a
555non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other
556end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the
557other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses
558don't work entirely properly.
559
560The four mailers are:
561
562 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp")
563 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of
564 sending messages accros UUCP connections. It does bangify
565 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's
566 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can
567 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of
568 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all
569 possible.
570
571 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp")
572 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail
573 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a
574 lot of other problems.
575
576 uucp-dom
577 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses.
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579 is only included if MAILER(smtp) is also specified.
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581 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require
582 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use
583 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope
584 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So....
585
586 uucp-uudom
587 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses)
588 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the
589 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the
590 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address
591 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name
592 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of
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594 is also specified.
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596Examples:
597
598We are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"). The
599following summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers.
600
601Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope
602------ ------ -------------------------
603uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf
604uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
605uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf
606
607uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf
608uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net
609uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf
610
611uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf
612uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
613uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf
614
615If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want
616to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will
617do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example,
618if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo),
619the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to
620this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it
621will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain
622feature.
623
624
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626| TWEAKING RULESETS |
627+-------------------+
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629For more complex configurations, you can define special rules.
630The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing
631the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header.
632
633A common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using
634the UUCPSMTP macro. For example:
635
636 LOCAL_RULE_3
637 UUCPSMTP(decvax, decvax.dec.com)
638 UUCPSMTP(research, research.att.com)
639
640will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user"
641to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com"
642respectively.
643
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646 LOCAL_RULE_3
647 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3
648
649This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below.
650
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652For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept
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654
655 LOCAL_RULE_0
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658You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU
659pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on
660using UUCP.
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663These rulesets are normally empty.
664
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666boilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to
a151c868 667declare local database maps or whatever. For example:
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669 LOCAL_CONFIG
670 Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db
671 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname
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675| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
676+---------------------------+
677
678You can have your host masquerade as another using
679
680 MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain)
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6fb312a3 682This causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the
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6fb312a3 684of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would
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686
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688that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a
689CNAME.
690
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692internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.
693Root is an example. You can add users to this list using
694
695 EXPOSED_USER(usernames)
696
697This adds users to class E; you could also use something like
698
699 FE/etc/sendmail.cE
700
701You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names
702without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central
703email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have
704to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using
705
28b51619 706 define(`LOCAL_RELAY', mailer:hostname)
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709"smtp". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps
710because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be
711locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using
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713 LOCAL_USER(usernames)
714
715This adds users to class L; you could also use something like
716
717 FL/etc/sendmail.cL
718
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720shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use
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726other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. Names in $=L will be
727delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or .forward files for them.
728
729For example, if are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU, the following
28b51619 730combinations of settings will have the indicated effects:
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732email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
733
734LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally)
735mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU
736
737MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
738mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
739
740Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
741MAIL_HUB set as above
742
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744SMART_HOST as well. Briefly:
745
746 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric").
747 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
748 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU").
749 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.
750
751However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, and
752FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you really want
753absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will need to
754unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a minimal
755config file that does this.
756
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758+-------------------------------+
759| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |
760+-------------------------------+
761
762These configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based
763sites. I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or
764UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net
765connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is one
766hook to handle some special cases.
767
768You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax
769using:
770
771 define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname)
772
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775
776If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside
777world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules.
778For example:
779
780 define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet)
781 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
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784This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via
785SMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet.
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787the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is
788not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to
789use:
790
791 define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com)
792 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
793 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3
794
795That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup;
796anything else goes through SMART_HOST.
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799FEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting
800for the name server to come up.
801
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804| WHO AM I? |
805+-----------+
806
807Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully
808qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your
809host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the
810result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns
811only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is
812supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare)
813cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case
814you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain
815name. This is usually done using:
816
817 Dmbar.com
818 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl
819
820
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822| USING MAILERTABLES |
823+--------------------+
824
825To use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external
826database containing the routing information for various domains.
827For example, a mailertable file in text format might be:
828
829 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain
830 uuhost1.my.domain suucp:uuhost1
831 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net
832
833This should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable. The actual
834database version of the mailertable is built using:
835
836 makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
837
838The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with
839a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning
840with a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is,
841they can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard. Matching
842is done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even
843though ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry
844of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is
845more explicit.
846
847The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the
848configuration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the
849sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to
850that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading
851dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of
852the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything
853addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using
854the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer.
855
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857particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX
858everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it
859directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration:
860
861 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine
862
863and on relay.machine use the mailertable:
864
865 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain]
866
867The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only.
868If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record
869again, which would give you an MX loop.
870
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873| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
874+--------------------------------+
875
876The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
877to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
878it that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
879purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
880is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
881a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
882
883If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
65739042 884imperative that you not use FEATURE(stickyhost) -- otherwise,
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886
65739042 887To build the internal form of the user database, use:
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889 makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
890
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893| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES |
894+--------------------------------+
895
896DOTTED_USER(name)
897 Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a
898 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all
899 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be
900 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class
901 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this
902 using dotted users. For example, a client might include
903 the alias:
904
905 root: root.client1@server
906
907 On the server, the mail configuration would include:
908
909 DOTTED_USER(root)
910
911 Aliases on the server that would match this address would
912 be "root.client", "root.*", and "root", tried in that
913 order. You can specify multiple addresses either by
914 joining them in one DOTTTED_USER macro or by having
915 multiple macros:
916
917 DOTTED_USER(root)
918 DOTTED_USER(postmaster mailer-daemon)
919
920 defines three dotted users.
921
922
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924| SECURITY NOTES |
925+----------------+
926
927A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much
928more careful about checking for security problems than previous
929versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch
930for. In particular:
931
932* Make sure the aliases file isn't writable except by trusted
933 system personnel. This includes both the text and database
934 version.
935
936* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the
937 mailertable, is only writable by trusted system personnel.
938
939* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY
940 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root
941 user can chown any file they own to any other user).
942
943* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically
944 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone
945 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that
946 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a
947 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory).
948
949* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that
950 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in
951 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in
952 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before
953 files and programs listed in them will be honored).
954
955In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them
956off I recommend you do so.
957
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960| FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
961+------------------+
962
963Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a
964public version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93]. The following
965blurb is direct from Sam:
966
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969 How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)
d1ad6cf3 970 --------------------------------------------------------------
63013ec3 971 The source code is available for public ftp on
d1ad6cf3 972 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z
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974
975 You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from
d1ad6cf3 976 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar
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978
979 For example,
980 % ftp -n sgi.com
981 ....
982 ftp> user anonymous
983 ... <type in password>
984 ftp> cd sgi/fax
985 ftp> binary
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987
988 In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is
989 always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp
990 directory. This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so
991 don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of
992 the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older
993 versions of the source code. For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would
994 contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z. (Note to beta testers: this is
995 different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch
996 files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are
997 multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply
998 each patch file between your current version and the latest.
999
1000
1001 Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail
1002 -----------------------------------------
1003 Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without
1004 response). If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
1005 "ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com: you can send e-mail to
1006 this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you
1007 the files back again via e-mail. To find out more about the ftpmail
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1009 consists of the single line "help".
1010
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1012 Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics
1013 ----------------------------------------------
63013ec3 1014 Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
d1ad6cf3 1015 flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist. Thus you can do something like:
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d1ad6cf3 1017 % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax
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d1ad6cf3 1019 to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
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1022 What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff
1023 --------------------------------------
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1024 The external distributions come in a compressed or uncompressed tar
1025 file. To extract the source distribution:
1026
d1ad6cf3 1027 % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf -
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1029 (uncompress and extract individual files in current directory). To
1030 unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution:
1031
1032 % mkdir dist
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1035 ...
1036 inst> go
1037
1038 (Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if
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1040 included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*. They are not
1041 installed by default, so to get them also you need to do:
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1043 % inst -f flexfax
1044 ...
1045 inst> install flexfax.server.*
1046 inst> go
1047
d1ad6cf3 1048 The SGI binaries were built for Version 4.0.5H of the IRIX operating
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1050 system, but I have not fully tested this. Also, note that to install a
1051 server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display
1052 PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe). Otherwise, the fax
1053 server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for
1054 transmission.
1055
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1057 README in the top of the source tree. If you are working from the inst
1058 images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and
1059 other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in
1060 the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax). Basically you will need to run
1061 the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem. Consult
1062 the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information.
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1065 FlexFAX Mail List
1066 -----------------
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1067 A mailing list for users of this software is located on sgi.com.
1068 If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request
1069 such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to
1070
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1071 majordomo@whizzer.wpd.sgi.com
1072
1073 For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in
1074 the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of
1075 the commands understood by the mailing list management software.
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1076
1077 Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to:
1078
1079 flexfax@sgi.com
1080
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1081 When corresponding about this software please always specify what
1082 version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is
1083 specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision.
1084
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1086+--------------------------------+
1087| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |
1088+--------------------------------+
1089
1090There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally
1091need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you
1092can define the following M4 variables. This list is shown in four
1093columns: the name you define, the default value for that definition,
1094the option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx
1095for a macro), and a brief description. Greater detail of the semantics
1096can be found in the Installation and Operations Guide.
1097
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1098Some options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is,
1099the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are
1100marked with "*".
1101
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1102Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to
1103be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to
1104be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma
1105confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for
1106the read timeout.
1107
a151c868 1108M4 Variable Name Default Mac/Opt Description
a7e36c1b 1109================ ======= ======= ===========
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1110confMAILER_NAME MAILER-DAEMON Dn The sender name used for
1111 internally generated
1112 outgoing messages.
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1113confFROM_LINE From $g $d Dl The From_ line used when
1114 sending to files or programs.
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1115confFROM_HEADER $?x$x <$g>$|$g$. The format of an internally
1116 Dq generated From: address.
1d64a22c 1117confOPERATORS .:%@!^/[]+ Do Address operator characters.
2e9b6f6e 1118confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG $j Sendmail $v/$Z ready at $b
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1119 De The initial (spontaneous)
1120 SMTP greeting message.
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1121confRECEIVED_HEADER $?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u for $u$.; $b
1122 HReceived
1123 The format of the Received:
1124 header in messages passed
1125 through this host. It is
1126 unwise to try to change this.
f6232b5e 1127confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT False O7 Force input to seven bits?
eb802161 1128confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING pass8 O8 8-bit data handling
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1129confALIAS_WAIT 10 Oa Wait (in minutes) for alias
1130 file rebuild.
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1131confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS 4 Ob Minimum number of free blocks
1132 on queue filesystem to accept
1133 SMTP mail.
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1134confBLANK_SUB . OB Blank (space) substitution
1135 character.
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1136confCON_EXPENSIVE False Oc Avoid connecting immediately
1137 to mailers marked expensive?
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1138confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL 10 OC Checkpoint queue files
1139 every N recipients.
1140confDELIVERY_MODE background Od Default delivery mode.
1141confAUTO_REBUILD False OD Automatically rebuild
1142 alias file if needed.
1143confERROR_MODE (undefined) Oe Error message mode.
1144confERROR_MESSAGE (undefined) OE Error message header/file.
1145confSAVE_FROM_LINES False Of Save extra leading
1146 From_ lines.
1147confTEMP_FILE_MODE 0600 OF Temporary file mode.
1148confDEF_GROUP_ID 1 Og Default group id.
1149confMATCH_GECOS False OG Match GECOS field.
1150confMAX_HOP 17 Oh Maximum hop count.
fb32c2a1 1151confIGNORE_DOTS False Oi * Ignore dot as terminator
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1153confBIND_OPTS (empty) OI Default options for BIND.
fb32c2a1 1154confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS True Oj * Send error messages as MIME-
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1156 RFC 1344.
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1157confFORWARD_PATH (undefined) OJ The colon-separated list of
1158 places to search for .forward
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1160 Notes section.
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1161confMCI_CACHE_SIZE 2 Ok Size of open connection cache.
1162confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT 5m OK Open connection cache timeout.
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1163confUSE_ERRORS_TO False Ol * Use the Errors-To: header to
1164 deliver error messages. This
1165 should not be necessary because
1166 of general acceptance of the
1167 envelope/header distinction.
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1168confLOG_LEVEL 9 OL Log level.
1169confME_TOO False Om Include sender in group
1170 expansions.
1171confCHECK_ALIASES True On Check RHS of aliases when
1172 running newaliases.
fb32c2a1 1173confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS True Oo * Assume that headers without
a151c868 1174 special chars are old style.
4c230f32 1175confDAEMON_OPTIONS (undefined) OO SMTP daemon options.
88ce9b1c 1176confPRIVACY_FLAGS authwarnings Op Privacy flags.
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1177confCOPY_ERRORS_TO (undefined) OP Address for additional copies
1178 of all error messages.
1179confQUEUE_FACTOR (undefined) Oq Slope of queue-only function
33f90dbe 1180confREAD_TIMEOUT (undefined) Or SMTP read timeouts.
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1181confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES False OR Don't prune down route-addr
1182 syntax addresses to the
1183 minimum possible.
fb32c2a1 1184confSAFE_QUEUE True Os * Commit all messages to disk
a151c868 1185 before forking.
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1186confMESSAGE_TIMEOUT 5d/4h OT Timeout for messages before
1187 sending error/warning message.
386fe59f 1188confTIME_ZONE USE_SYSTEM Ot Time zone info -- can be
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1190 idea, USE_TZ to use the user's
1191 TZ envariable, or something
1192 else to force that value.
1193confDEF_USER_ID 1 Ou Default user id.
39ed20b0 1194confUSERDB_SPEC (undefined) OU User database specification.
4c230f32 1195confFALLBACK_MX (undefined) OV Fallback MX host.
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1197 host and haven't made other
1198 arrangements, try connecting
1199 to the host directly; normally
1200 this would be a config error.
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1201confQUEUE_LA 8 Ox Load average at which queue-only
1202 function kicks in.
1203confREFUSE_LA 12 OX Load average at which incoming
1204 SMTP connections are refused.
a151c868 1205confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR
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1207confSEPARATE_PROC False OY Run all deliveries in a
1208 separate process.
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1209confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR (undefined) Oz Priority multiplier for class.
1210confWORK_TIME_FACTOR (undefined) OZ Cost of each delivery attempt.
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1211confCW_FILE /etc/sendmail.cw Name of file used to get the
1212 Fw local additions to the $=w
1213 class.
2e9b6f6e 1214confSMTP_MAILER smtp - The mailer name used when
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1217 "esmtp".
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1218confLOCAL_MAILER local - The mailer name used when
1219 local connectivity is required.
1220 Almost always "local".
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1221confRELAY_MAILER relay - The default mailer name used
1222 for relaying any mail (e.g.,
1223 to a BITNET_RELAY, a
1224 SMART_HOST, or whatever).
1225 This can reasonably be "suucp"
1226 if you are on a UUCP-connected
1227 site.
f7e8be31 1228confDOMAIN_NAME (undefined) Dj If defined, sets $j.
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1232| HIERARCHY |
1233+-----------+
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1235Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit:
1236
1237m4 General support routines. These are typically
1238 very important and should not be changed without
fd82c288 1239 very careful consideration.
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1241cf The configuration files themselves. They have
1242 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to
1243 become complete. The resulting output should
1244 have a ".cf" suffix.
1245
1246ostype Definitions describing a particular operating
1247 system type. These should always be referenced
1248 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples
1249 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and
1250 "sunos4.1".
1251
1252domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced
1253 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are
1254 site dependent; for example, we contribute "cs.exposed.m4"
1255 and "cs.hidden.m4" which both describe hosts in the
1256 CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain; the former displays the local
1257 hostname (e.g., mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU), whereas the
1258 latter does its best to hide the identity of the local
1259 workstation inside the CS subdomain.
1260
1261mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using
1262 the MAILER macro in the .mc file.
1263
1264sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the
1265 .mc file in the cf subdirectory.
1266
1267feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might
1268 want to include. They should be referenced using
1269 the FEATURE macro.
1270
1271hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK
1272 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic
1273 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows?
6fb312a3 1274 We've all got our own peccadillos.
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1277 UUCP sites.
1278
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1281| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS |
1282+------------------------+
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1283
1284The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the
1285sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify
1286the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these
1287should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more).
1288
1289RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail)
1290
1291 0 * Parsing
1292 1 * Sender rewriting
1293 2 * Recipient rewriting
1294 3 * Canonicalization
1295 4 * Post cleanup
f5baef19 1296 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing)
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1297 1x mailer rules (sender qualification)
1298 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification)
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1299 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification)
1300 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification)
1301 5x mailer subroutines (general)
1302 6x mailer subroutines (general)
1303 7x mailer subroutines (general)
1304 8x reserved
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1306 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail)
1307 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail)
5dd53c38 1308 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail)
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1310
1311MAILERS
1312
1313 0 local, prog local and program mailers
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1314 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel
1315 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
bee9d799 1316 3 netnews Network News delivery
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1319
1320MACROS
1321
1322 A
1323 B Bitnet Relay
72a40e6d 1324 C
f5baef19 1325 D The local domain -- usually not needed
7ace9d88 1326 E
63013ec3 1327 F FAX Relay
7ace9d88 1328 G
34e49bd3 1329 H mail Hub (for mail clusters)
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1331 J
1332 K
b0abd8b1 1333 L Luser Relay
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1335 N
1336 O
1337 P
1338 Q
1339 R Relay (for unqualified names)
28b51619 1340 S Smart Host
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1343 V UUCP Relay (class V hosts)
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1344 W UUCP Relay (class W hosts)
1345 X UUCP Relay (class X hosts)
c573210d 1346 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts)
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1348
1349
1350CLASSES
1351
1352 A
1353 B
1354 C
f4d9c9f9 1355 D "dotted" users
4a51b074 1356 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M
f5baef19 1357 F hosts we forward for
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1359 H
1360 I
1361 J
1362 K
1363 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R
1364 M
1365 N
1366 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names)
91626fee 1367 P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, FAX, UUCP, etc.
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1369 R
1370 S
1371 T
1372 U locally connected UUCP hosts
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1374 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W
1375 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X
1376 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts
2e9b6f6e 1377 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts
f5baef19 1378 . the class containing only a dot
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1384 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions
1385 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions
9df1b56b 1386 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions
c573210d 1387 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R)
f5baef19 1388 6 local configuration (at top of file)
7ace9d88 1389 7 mailer definitions
32f9e686 1390 8
06630be3 1391 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2)