- SENDMAIL DISTRIBUTION
-
-Presumably by the time you get to this READ_ME file, you will have
-already read the tape in, or will have received this distribution as
-part of 4.2bsd. If you do not yet have the distribution online, read
-the tape in now -- you will need about one megabyte to hold the tape.
-
-The first thing you should look at is the documentation. The two
-critical documents are "doc/intro.me" and "doc/op.me". Read both
-of these before proceeding with your installation. If you have read
-these before, you should still read through the second one again
-anyhow, since the installation procedures change occasionally.
-
-A brief tour:
- FILES A list of the files on the tape.
- Makefile A Makefile that will do a vanilla install for you.
- adb A set of adb(1) scripts for printing out certain
- sendmail data structures.
- adm Administrativia.
- aux Files that represent programs that are not really
- "part" of sendmail, or old versions of some files
- in src for use by people on other system types.
- cf The configuration files for Berkeley, plus a few
- prototype configurations for basic installation
- types.
- doc The documentation.
- include The include files used by more than just the sendmail
- program itself.
- lib Library routines used by sendmail, but not really
- "part" of sendmail itself; these might be candidates
- for libc.a.
- md Some m4 files used to isolate machine dependencies.
- src The source for the sendmail program itself.
- test Some files used for testing -- mostly these are
- shell files intended as the targets for aliasing.
-
-Due to my present circumstances, I am unable to provide a formal
-level of support for this system. However, I will make whatever
-attempt I can to answer a reasonable number of questions. Since
-the company I am working for is not working in this area, and has
-indulged me tremendously in letting me work on this at all, I regret
-that I am unable to accept phone calls. I can be contacted as:
-
- OLD NEW
- Arpanet: eric@Berkeley eric@Berkeley.ARPA
- UUCP: ucbvax!eric eric@ucbvax.UUCP
-
-Eric Allman
-Britton-Lee, Inc.
-
-@(#)READ_ME 3.1 %G%
+ SENDMAIL RELEASE 8
+
+This directory has the latest sendmail software from Berkeley. See
+doc/op/op.me for a summary of changes since 5.67.
+
+Report any bugs to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU.
+
+The latest version of sendmail is kept on FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU, directory
+/ucb/sendmail; check there for the latest revision.
+
+
++--------------+
+| 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
+(directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC),
+nisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu
+(info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending
+email to one of:
+
+ mail-server@nisc.sri.com
+ Put "send rfcNNN" in message body
+ nis-info@nis.nsf.net
+ Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body
+ sendrfc@jvnc.net
+ Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line
+
+Important RFCs for electronic mail are:
+
+ RFC821 SMTP protocol
+ RFC822 Mail header format
+ RFC974 MX routing
+ RFC976 UUCP mail format
+ RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974)
+ RFC1413 Identification server
+ RFC1425 SMTP Service Extensions (ESMTP spec)
+ RFC1426 SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
+ RFC1427 SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
+ RFC1521 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
+ RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
+ RFC1428 Transation of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to
+ 8-bit SMTP/MIME
+
+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)
+
+Warning to AIX users: this version of sendmail does not implement
+MB, MR, or MG DNS resource records, as defined as experiments in
+RFC883.
+
+
++-------------------+
+| 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 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 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.
+
+
++----------------+
+| USE WITH IDENT |
++----------------+
+
+Sendmail 8 supports the IDENT protocol, as defined by RFC 1413.
+No ident server is included with this distribution. I have found
+copies available on:
+
+ ftp.lysator.liu.se /pub/ident/servers
+ romulus.ucs.uoknor.edu /networking/ident/servers
+ ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl /agh/uciagh/network/ident
+
+If you want to run an IDENT server, I suggest getting a copy from
+one of those sites. Versions are available for several different
+systems, including Apollo, BSD, NeXT, AIX, TOPS20, and VMS.
+
+
++-----------+
+| 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
+ different than what you've seen before. They are a
+ fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail
+ (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. (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 The source for the local delivery agent used for 4.4BSD.
+ THIS IS NOT PART OF SENDMAIL! and may not compile
+ everywhere, since it depends on some 4.4-isms. Warning:
+ it does mailbox locking differently than other systems.
+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.
+makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $)
+ construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective.
+ It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably
+ expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats
+ using sed scripts before this program will like them.
+ But it should be functionally complete.
+praliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file.
+ It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley
+ DB format (which we are using).
+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 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).
+smrsh The "sendmail restricted shell", which can be used as
+ a replacement for /bin/mail in the prog mailer to provide
+ increased security control. NOT PART OF SENDMAIL!
+src Source for the sendmail program itself.
+test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids).
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