- 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%
+THIS IS A BETA VERSION OF SENDMAIL. 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.
+
+REPORT ANY BUGS to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU.
+
+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.
+
+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. If you got this version from anywhere other than direct
+from Berkeley, check the machine FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU, directory
+/ucb/sendmail for the latest version.
+
+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
+ 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).
+
+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.
+
+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
+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.
+
+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.
+doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read
+ op.me -- it's long, but worth it.
+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.
+src Source for the sendmail program itself.
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