/*-
- * @(#)READ_ME 6.7 (Berkeley) %G%
+ * @(#)READ_ME 8.11 (Berkeley) %G%
*/
-THIS IS AN ALPHA VERSION OF SENDMAIL. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING IT
-IN A HEAVY PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. We've been running it (in various
-forms) at Berkeley for several months, but our environment is far from
-general. In particular, it hasn't been heavily tested for non-SMTP
-environments. The good news is that most of the changes have been
-Internet-related, and that has been tested.
+ SENDMAIL RELEASE 8
-REPORT ANY BUGS to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU.
+This directory has the latest sendmail software from Berkeley. See
+doc/op/op.me for a summary of changes since 5.67.
-THIS IS COPYRIGHTED CODE. BY COMPILING AND RUNNING THIS CODE YOU AGREE
-to upgrade to the production release when it comes out. You understand
-that we hope this will be by June, but if there are serious problems
-it may be longer than that.
+Report any bugs to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU.
-PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS AVAILABLE ON PUBLIC FTP. Since it is still an
-early release, I'd prefer that people get copies directly from Berkeley
-to make certain that they have the most recent version. This isn't
-an attempt to limit access, just to make certain that everyone is able
-to keep up.
+The latest version of sendmail is kept on FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU, directory
+/ucb/sendmail; check there for the latest revision.
-You don't have to install mail.local to run the new version of sendmail.
-Many versions of /bin/mail take a "-d" flag or do local delivery already.
-In particular, mail.local is largely specific to 4.4 BSD, and will not
-be easy to compile elsewhere. It was written by Keith Bostic, not myself,
-and was not intended for the "general case".
+
++--------------+
+| MANUAL PAGES |
++--------------+
+
+The sendmail manual pages use contemporary Berkeley troff macros. If
+your system does not process these manual pages, you can pick up the
+new macros in a BSD Net/2 FTP site (e.g. on FTP.UU.NET, the files
+/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/me/strip.sed and
+/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/*).
+
+The strip.sed file is only used in installation.
+
+After installation, edit tmac.doc and tmac.andoc to reflect the
+installation path of the tmac files. Those files contain pointers to
+/usr/share/tmac/, and those pointers are not changed by the `make
+install` process.
+
+Rename the existing tmac.an to be tmac.an.old, and rename tmac.andoc
+to be tmac.an.
+
+tmac.an will choose between tmac.an.old, your old macros, or tmac.doc,
+which are the new macros, so that both the new man pages and the
+existing man pages will be translated properly.
+
+I'm also told that the groff distribution from MIT has a tmac.doc
+macro set that is compatible with these macros.
+
+
++-----------------------+
+| RELATED DOCUMENTATION |
++-----------------------+
+
+There are other files you should read. Rooted in this directory are:
+
+ CHANGES-R5-R8
+ Describes changes between Release 5 and Release 8 of sendmail.
+ There are some things that may behave somewhat differently.
+ For example, the rules governing when :include: files will
+ be read have been tightened up for security reasons.
+ FAQ
+ Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
+ KNOWNBUGS
+ Known bugs in the current release. I try to keep this up
+ to date -- get the latest version from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU
+ in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS.
+ RELEASE_NOTES
+ A detailed description of the changes in each version. This
+ is quite long, but informative.
+ src/READ_ME
+ Details on compiling and installing sendmail.
+ cf/README
+ Details on configuring sendmail.
+ doc/op/op.me
+ The sendmail Installation & Operations Guide. Be warned: if
+ you are running this off on SunOS or some other system with an
+ old version of -me, you need to add the following macro to the
+ macros:
+
+ .de sm
+ \s-1\\$1\\s0\\$2
+ ..
+
+ This sets a word in a smaller pointsize.
+
+
++--------------+
+| RELATED RFCS |
++--------------+
There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are
available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil
RFC976 UUCP mail format
RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974)
RFC1413 Identification server
+ RFC1341 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
+ RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
Other standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly
relevant to sendmail) are:
RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400
RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822)
-Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons the Makefiles are for the new
-Berkeley "make" and will not work on the old, traditional make. I urge
-you to get this make from Net2 (available on many public FTP archives).
-Failing that, some directories have a "Makefile.dist" that will work on
-older versions of make (but don't have the niceties included).
+Warning to AIX users: this version of sendmail does not implement
+MB, MR, or MG DNS resource records, as defined as experiments in
+RFC883.
-Similar comments apply to the man pages -- they use the new Berkeley
--mandoc macros instead of the -man macros. You can get these from
-Net2 as well.
+
++-------------------+
+| DATABASE ROUTINES |
++-------------------+
IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT ****
use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of
nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have
to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public
-FTP from vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file pub/db.tar.Z. This software
+FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software
is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much
faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will
also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include
to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly.
+Be sure you remove ndbm.h and ndbm.o from the db distribution. These
+will cause problems with sendmail because sendmail already understands
+about NEWDB and NDBM coexisting.
+
+
++--------------------+
+| Host Name Services |
++--------------------+
+
+If you compile with NAMED_BIND (the default) sendmail will use
+DNS (the Domain Name System) for most host name lookups. If
+you do not have DNS running at your site you may have to turn
+this off to cause sendmail to use NIS and/or the /etc/hosts file.
+In particular, on SunOS you have to choose to use DNS (which
+you should do if you are attached to the Internet, otherwise
+you lose MX records, which are required) or NIS -- there is no
+way to try both.
+
+If you are using NIS and /etc/hosts, it is critical that you
+list the long (fully qualified) name first in the /etc/hosts file
+used to build the NIS database. For example, the line should read
+
+ 128.32.149.68 mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU mastodon
+
+**** NOT ****
+
+ 128.32.149.68 mastodon mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
+
+If you use the wrong order, sendmail will conclude that your
+canonical name is the short version and use that in messages.
+The name "mastodon" doesn't mean much outside of Berkeley,
+and so this creates incorrect and unreplyable messages.
+
+
++-------------+
+| USE WITH MH |
++-------------+
+
+This version of sendmail notices and reports certain kinds of SMTP
+protocol violations that were ignored by older versions. If you
+are running MH you may wish to install the patch in contrib/mh.patch
+that will prevent these warning reports. This patch also works
+with the old version of sendmail, so it's safe to go ahead and
+install it.
+
+
++-----------+
+| MAKEFILES |
++-----------+
+
+The Makefiles in this release use the new Berkeley "make" that is
+available in BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD. If you are using this version
+of make, you may notice one or two places where the Makefile includes
+"../../Makefile.inc". This file is not included with the sendmail
+distribution because it's not part of sendmail. However, it is,
+in toto:
+
+ # @(#)Makefile.inc 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
+
+ BINDIR?= /usr/sbin
+
+The other directories should all have Makefile.dist files that work
+on the old make, albeit without all the niceties included.
+
+You can also get a new Berkeley make from the Net2 release (available
+on many public FTP archives). This version should also interpret old
+Makefiles, so you could drop it in as your default make.
+
+For more details, see src/READ_ME.
+
+
++---------------------+
+| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE |
++---------------------+
+
The structure of this directory tree is:
cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are
(since they use new features).
contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE
ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original
- authors if you have problems.
+ authors if you have problems. (This directory is not
+ on the 4.4BSD tape.)
doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read
op.me -- it's long, but worth it.
-mail.local Source for mail.local(8), a local delivery program.
- Older versions of sendmail called /bin/mail with a
- special -d flag to mean "really deliver this mail";
- this is a completely new (and much smaller) program
- that does absolutely nothing but deliver local mail.
- THIS IS SPECIFIC TO 4.4BSD, and is not under my
- control.
mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of
sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that,
beware. This isn't all that useful.
rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery
agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by
other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of
- rmail are probably deficient.
+ rmail are probably deficient. RMAIL IS NOT PART OF
+ SENDMAIL!!! The 4.4BSD source is included for you to
+ look at or try to port to your system. I know it doesn't
+ compile on {SunOS, HP-UX, OSF/1, other} (pick one).
src Source for the sendmail program itself.
+test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids).
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