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| 79c576ee | 2 | S E N D M A I L |
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| 4 | Presumably by the time you get to this READ_ME file, you will have | |
| 5 | already read the tape in, or will have received this distribution as | |
| 6 | part of 4.2bsd. If you do not yet have the distribution online, read | |
| 7 | the tape in now -- you will need about one megabyte to hold the tape. | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | The first thing you should look at is the documentation. The two | |
| 10 | critical documents are "doc/intro.me" and "doc/op.me". Read both | |
| 11 | of these before proceeding with your installation. If you have read | |
| 12 | these before, you should still read through the second one again | |
| 13 | anyhow, since the installation procedures change occasionally. | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | A brief tour: | |
| 16 | FILES A list of the files on the tape. | |
| 17 | Makefile A Makefile that will do a vanilla install for you. | |
| 18 | adb A set of adb(1) scripts for printing out certain | |
| 19 | sendmail data structures. | |
| 20 | adm Administrativia. | |
| 21 | aux Files that represent programs that are not really | |
| 22 | "part" of sendmail, or old versions of some files | |
| 23 | in src for use by people on other system types. | |
| 24 | cf The configuration files for Berkeley, plus a few | |
| 25 | prototype configurations for basic installation | |
| 26 | types. | |
| 27 | doc The documentation. | |
| 28 | include The include files used by more than just the sendmail | |
| 29 | program itself. | |
| 30 | lib Library routines used by sendmail, but not really | |
| 31 | "part" of sendmail itself; these might be candidates | |
| 32 | for libc.a. | |
| 33 | md Some m4 files used to isolate machine dependencies. | |
| 34 | src The source for the sendmail program itself. | |
| 35 | test Some files used for testing -- mostly these are | |
| 36 | shell files intended as the targets for aliasing. | |
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38 | The following are the known major problems and their Problem Report |
| 39 | number: | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | 012, 043 Names of files and programs cannot have upper case letters | |
| 42 | in them -- these get mapped to lower case due to the | |
| 43 | case mapping feature. | |
| 44 | 178 Because of the different syntaxes used in envelopes versus | |
| 45 | headers, we will occasionally allow syntactically incorrect | |
| 46 | headers go out. | |
| 47 | 226 Quote interpretation may be incorrect -- this is not well | |
| 48 | defined in the protocols. | |
| 49 | ||
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50 | Due to my present circumstances, I am unable to provide a formal |
| 51 | level of support for this system. However, I will make whatever | |
| 52 | attempt I can to answer a reasonable number of questions. Since | |
| 53 | the company I am working for is not working in this area, and has | |
| 54 | indulged me tremendously in letting me work on this at all, I regret | |
| 55 | that I am unable to accept phone calls. I can be contacted as: | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | OLD NEW | |
| 58 | Arpanet: eric@Berkeley eric@Berkeley.ARPA | |
| 59 | UUCP: ucbvax!eric eric@ucbvax.UUCP | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | Eric Allman | |
| 62 | Britton-Lee, Inc. | |
| 63 | ||
| c7c68208 | 64 | @(#)READ_ME 4.1 %G% |