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+/*-
+ *	@(#)README	8.51 (Berkeley) 1/25/1999
+ */
+
+			SENDMAIL RELEASE 8
+
+This directory has the latest sendmail(TM) software from Sendmail, Inc.
+See doc/changes/changes.me for a summary of changes since 5.67.
+
+Report any bugs to sendmail-bugs@sendmail.ORG
+
+There is a web site at http://WWW.Sendmail.ORG -- see that site for
+the latest updates.
+
+******************************************************************
+**  A new Build architecture is in place that allows you to	**
+**  use the "Build" shell script in any of the program		**
+**  directories.  On many environments this will do everything	**
+**  for you, no fuss, no muss.  See src/README for more details	**
+**  of compilation.  See cf/README for details about building	**
+**  a runtime configuration file.				**
+******************************************************************
+
+Sendmail is a trademark of Sendmail, Inc.
+
++-----------------------+
+| DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS |
++-----------------------+
+
+Sendmail often gets blamed for many problems that are actually the
+result of other problems, such as overly permissive modes on directories.
+For this reason, sendmail checks the modes on system directories and
+files to determine if can have been trusted.  For sendmail to run
+without complaining, you MUST execute the following command:
+
+	chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue
+	chown root / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue
+
+You will probably have to tweak this for your environment (for example,
+some systems put the spool directory into /usr/spool instead of
+/var/spool and use /etc/mail for aliases file instead of /etc).  If you
+set the RunAsUser option in your sendmail.cf, the /var/spool/mqueue
+directory will have to be owned by the RunAsUser user.  As a general rule,
+after you have compiled sendmail, run the command
+
+	sendmail -v -bi
+
+to initialize the alias database.  If it gives messages such as
+
+	WARNING: writable directory /etc
+	WARNING: writable directory /usr/spool/mqueue
+
+then the directories listed have inappropriate write permissions and
+should be secured to avoid various possible security attacks.
+
+Beginning with sendmail 8.9, these checks have become more strict to
+prevent users from being able to access files they would normally not
+be able to read.  In particular, .forward and :include: files in unsafe
+directory paths (directory paths which are group or world writable) will
+no longer be allowed.  This would mean that if user joe's home directory
+was writable by group staff, sendmail would not use his .forward file.
+This behavior can be altered, at the expense of system security, by
+setting the DontBlameSendmail option.  For example, to allow .forward
+files in group writable directories:
+
+	O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileingroupwritabledirpath
+
+Or to allow them in both group and world writable directories:
+
+	O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath
+
+Items from these unsafe .forward and :include: files will be marked
+as unsafe addresses -- the items can not be deliveries to files or
+programs.  This behavior can also be altered via DontBlameSendmail:
+
+	O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath,
+		forwardfileinunsafedirpathsafe
+
+The first flag allows the .forward file to be read, the second allows
+the items in the file to be marked as safe for file and program
+delivery.
+
+Other files affected by this strengthened security include class
+files (i.e. Fw /etc/sendmail.cw), persistent host status files, and
+the files specified by the ErrorHeader and HelpFile options.  Similar
+DontBlameSendmail flags are available for the class, ErrorHeader, and
+HelpFile files.
+
+If you have an unsafe configuration of .forward and :include:
+files, you can make it safe by finding all such files, and doing
+a "chmod go-w $FILE" on each.  Also, do a "chmod go-w $DIR" for
+each directory in the file's path.
+
+
++--------------+
+| 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/*).
+
+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.  There's also a bug in those files -- make the
+following patch:
+
+*** tmac.an~    Tue Jul 12 14:29:09 1994
+--- tmac.an     Fri Jul 15 13:17:54 1994
+***************
+*** 50,55 ****
+  .de TH
+  .rn TH xX
+  .so /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.an.old
+! .TH \\$1 \\$2 \\$3 \\$4 \\$5 \\$6 \\$7 \\$8
+  .rm xX
+  ..
+--- 50,55 ----
+  .de TH
+  .rn TH xX
+  .so /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.an.old
+! .TH "\\$1" "\\$2" "\\$3" "\\$4" "\\$5" "\\$6" "\\$7" "\\$8"
+  .rm xX
+  ..
+
+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:
+
+  doc/changes/changes.ps
+	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.Sendmail.ORG
+	in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS.
+  RELEASE_NOTES
+	A detailed description of the changes in each version.  This
+	is quite long, but informative.
+  src/README
+	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:
+
+	ftp://nic.ddn.mil/rfc/
+	ftp://nis.nsf.net/documents/rfc/
+	ftp://nisc.jvnc.net/rfc/
+	ftp://venera.isi.edu/in-notes/
+	ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/rfc/
+
+For a list of the primary repositories see:
+
+	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-retrieval.txt
+
+They are also online at:
+
+	http://www.ietf.org/
+
+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
+
+For further instructions see:
+
+	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-editor/rfc-info
+
+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
+	RFC1869	SMTP Service Extensions (ESMTP spec)
+	RFC1652	SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
+	RFC1870	SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
+	RFC2045	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One:
+		Format of Internet Message Bodies
+	RFC1344	Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
+	RFC1428	Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to
+		8-bit SMTP/MIME
+	RFC1891	SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications
+	RFC1892	Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of
+		Mail System Administrative Messages
+	RFC1893	Enhanced Mail System Status Codes
+	RFC1894	An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
+		Notifications
+	RFC1985	SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting
+	RFC2033 Local Mail Transfer Protocol
+
+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
+RFC1035.
+
+
++-------------------+
+| 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 the web at
+http://www.sleepycat.com/.  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.  If the Berkeley DB include files
+are installed in a location other than those which your compiler searches,
+you will need to provide that directory when building:
+
+	Build -I/path/to/include/directory
+
+If you are using Berkeley DB versions 1.85 or 1.86, you are *strongly*
+urged to upgrade to DB version 2, available from http://www.sleepycat.com/.
+Berkeley DB versions 1.85 and 1.86 are known to be broken in various nasty
+ways (see http://www.sleepycat.com/db.185.html), and can cause sendmail
+to dump core.  In addition, the newest versions of gcc and the Solaris
+compilers perform optimizations in those versions that may cause fairly
+random core dumps.
+
+If you have no choice but to use Berkeley DB 1.85 or 1.86, and you are
+using both Berkeley DB and files in the UNIX ndbm format, remove ndbm.h
+and ndbm.o from the DB library after building it.  You should also apply
+all of the patches for DB 1.85 and 1.86 found at the Sleepycat web site
+(see http://www.sleepycat.com/db.185.html), as they fix some of the known
+problems.
+
+If you are using a version of Berkeley DB 2 previous to 2.3.15, and you
+are using both Berkeley DB and files in the UNIX ndbm format, remove dbm.o
+from the DB library after building it.  No other changes are necessary.
+
+If you are using Berkeley DB version 2.3.15 or greater, no changes are
+necessary.
+
+The underlying database file formats changed between Berkeley DB versions
+1.85 and 1.86, and again between DB 1.86 and version 2.0.  If you are
+upgrading from one of those versions, you must recreate your database
+file(s).  Do this by rebuilding all maps with makemap and rebuilding the
+alias file with newaliases.
+
+
++--------------------+
+| HOST NAME SERVICES |
++--------------------+
+
+If you are using NIS or /etc/hosts, it is critical that you
+list the long (fully qualified) name somewhere (preferably 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
+
+If you do not include the long name, sendmail will complain loudly
+about ``unable to qualify my own domain name (mastodon) -- using
+short name'' and 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.
+
+
++-------------------------+
+| INTEROPERATION PROBLEMS |
++-------------------------+
+
+Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0
+	We have had a report that ``about 7% of messages from Sendmail
+	to Exchange were not being delivered with status messages of
+	"connection reset" and "I/O error".''  Upgrading Exchange from
+	Version 5.0 to Version 5.5 Service Pack 2 solved this problem.
+
+
++---------------------+
+| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE |
++---------------------+
+
+The structure of this directory tree is:
+
+cf		Source for sendmail 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 sendmail -- 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.
+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 or NEWDB version of the
+		aliases file.
+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/sh 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).