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author | Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> | 1998-06-23 10:00:00 -0500 |
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diff --git a/debian/part2 b/debian/part2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d91ab4d --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/part2 @@ -0,0 +1,1467 @@ +Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!thetimes.pixel.kodak.com!news.kodak.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-16.sprintlink.net!news.etcfiber.net!pjm-gate.pjm.com!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!aanews.merit.net!branch.com!news.bizserve.com!news +From: brad@etext.org +Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc,comp.answers,news.answers +Subject: comp.mail.sendmail Frequently Asked Questions (Part 2 of 2) +Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail +Date: 27 Apr 1997 04:57:53 GMT +Organization: The ETEXT Archives +Lines: 1446 +Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu +Distribution: world +Expires: 06/01/97 01:00:01 +Message-ID: <5jumch$i1l@kahuna.bizserve.com> +Reply-To: sendmail-faq@etext.org (Sendmail FAQ Maintainers) +NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.etext.org +Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions + (and their answers) about the program "sendmail", distributed with + many versions of Unix. It should be read by anyone who wishes to + post to the Usenet newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail. +Keywords: sendmail mail SMTP FAQ +X-Posting-Frequency: posted on the 27th of each month +Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.mail.sendmail:43555 comp.mail.misc:39333 comp.answers:25606 news.answers:100741 + +Posted-By: auto-faq 3.1.1.2 +Archive-name: mail/sendmail-faq/part2 + +URL: http://www.his.com/~brad/sendmail/index.html + + + comp.mail.sendmail + Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) + Last updated March 24, 1997 + + Copyright 1996, by Brad Knowles, all rights reserved + + +This FAQ is edited and maintained by Brad Knowles <brad@etext.org>. +The official archive for all FAQs posted to <news:news.answers> +is <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/>, with many known +mirrors. On this site, the latest version of this FAQ can be found +in <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq/>. +Since this server tends to be extremely busy, as an alternative, +you might want to try using <http://www.imc.org/sendmail-faq-1> +and <http://www.imc.org/sendmail-faq-2> instead. + +If you don't have access to FTP or WWW, this FAQ can be retrieved by +sending Internet email to <mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu> with an empty +subject line (it gets ignored) and the command "send +usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq/part*" as the body of the +message (omitting the quotes, of course). + +As an alternative, you might want to try sending Internet email +to <info@imc.org> with an empty subject line (it gets ignored) +and "send sendmail-faq-*" as the body of the body of the message +(again, omitting the quotes). + +Additional alternative access methods are detailed within. + + +This FAQ is in RFC 1153 digest format. The "Date:" field of each +entry represents the date of the last update made to that entry. + + +This FAQ has now been split into two parts, to try and make it easier +to pass through older or less capable news or mail gateways. + + +The intent is to ultimately make this document more web-friendly (in +that all original work is done in SGML), and using the linuxdoc-sgml +tools, automatically generate both the HTML and ASCII text versions, +automatically posting the ASCII version to comp.mail.sendmail as +appropriate. + +In the meanwhile, all pseudo-HTMLized versions of this FAQ are +considered unsupported. We cannot be held responsible for what +someone else's program does to this document in an attempt to +make it more web-friendly. Nevertheless, the Landfield Hypertext +Usenet FAQ Archive seems to work well, and if you must access +the comp.mail.sendmail FAQ via the web, try slinging over to +<http://www.landfield.com/faqs/mail/sendmail-faq/>. + + +Comments/updates should be sent to <sendmail-faq@etext.org>. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: March 24, 1997 +Subject: Table of Contents + +Table of Contents +================= + + PART ONE + ======== + + 0. TO DO + + 1. COPYRIGHT NOTICE / REDISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS + + 2. INTRODUCTION / MISCELLANEOUS + 2.1 What is this newsgroup? + 2.2 What is the scope of this FAQ? + 2.3 Where can I find the latest version of this FAQ? + 2.4 How do I access comp.mail.sendmail by email? + 2.5 Where can I ask email-related DNS questions? + 2.6 How can I subscribe to these newsgroups? + 2.7 Which version of sendmail should I run? + 2.8 What is the latest release of sendmail? + 2.9 Where can I find it? + 2.10 What are the differences between Version 8 and other + versions? + 2.11 What's the best platform for running sendmail? + 2.12 What is BIND and where can I get the latest version? + 2.13 What is smrsh and where can I get it? + 2.14 What is smap and where can I get it? + 2.15 What is TCP-Wrappers and where can I get it? + 2.16 Why won't db 1.85 build for my SGI running Irix >= 5.2? + 2.17 What is makemap and where can I get it? + + 3. VERSION 8 SPECIFIC ISSUES + 3.1 How do I make all my addresses appear to be from a single + host? + 3.2 How do I rewrite my "From:" lines to read + ``First_Last@My.Domain''? + 3.3 So what was the user database feature intended for? + 3.4 Why are you so hostile to using full names for email + addresses? + 3.5 Where do I find this user database (UserDB) code? + 3.6 How do I get the user database to work with Pine or + with FEATURE(always_add_domain)? + 3.7 How do I manage several (virtual) domains? + 3.8 There are four UUCP mailers listed in the configuration + files. Which one should I use? + 3.9 How do I fix "undefined symbol inet_aton" and "undefined + symbol _strerror" messages? + 3.10 How do I solve "collect: I/O error on connection" errors? + 3.11 Why can't my users forward their mail to a program? + 3.12 Why do connections to the SMTP port take such a long time? + 3.13 Why do I get "unknown mailer error 5 -- mail: options + MUST PRECEDE recipients" errors? + 3.14 Why does version 8 sendmail panic my SunOS box? + 3.15 Why does the "From " header gets mysteriously munged + when I send to an alias? + 3.16 Why doesn't MASQUERADE_AS (or the user database) work + for envelope addresses as well as header addresses? + 3.17 How do I run version 8 sendmail and support the MAIL11V3 + protocol? + 3.18 Why do messages disappear from my queue unsent? + 3.19 When is sendmail going to support RFC 1522 MIME header + encoding? + 3.20 Why can't I get mail to some places, but instead + always get the error "reply: read error from + name.of.remote.host"? + 3.21 Why doesn't "FEATURE(xxx)" work? + 3.22 How do I configure sendmail to not use DNS? + 3.23 How do I get all my queued mail delivered to my Unix + box from my ISP? + + + PART TWO + ======== + + 4. GENERAL SENDMAIL ISSUES + 4.1 Should I use a wildcard MX for my domain? + 4.2 How can I set up an auto-responder? + 4.3 How can I get sendmail to deliver local mail to + $HOME/.mail instead of into /usr/spool/mail (or + /usr/mail)? + 4.4 Why does it deliver the mail interactively when I'm + trying to get it to go into queue only mode? + 4.5 How can I solve "config error: mail loops back to + myself" messages? + 4.6 Why does my sendmail process sometimes hang when + connecting over a SLIP/PPP link? + 4.7 How can I summarize the statistics generated by + sendmail in the syslog? + 4.8 How can I check my sendmail.cf to ensure that it's + re-writing addresses correctly? + 4.9 What is procmail, and where can I get it? + 4.10 How can I solve "cannot alias non-local names" errors? + + 5. VENDOR/OS SPECIFIC SENDMAIL ISSUES + 5.1 Sun Microsystems SunOS/Solaris 1.x/2.x + 5.1.1 How can I solve "line 273: replacement $3 out of + bounds" errors? + 5.1.2 How can I solve "line 445: bad ruleset 96 (50 max)" + errors? + 5.1.3 Why does version 8 sendmail (< 8.7.5) sometimes + hang under Solaris 2.5? + 5.1.4 Why can't I use SunOS/Solaris to get email to + certain large sites? + 5.2 IBM AIX + 5.2.1 The system resource controller always reports + sendmail as "inoperative". What's wrong? + 5.2.2 Why can't I use AIX to get email to some sites? + 5.2.3 Why can't I get sendmail 8.7.1 to use MX records + with AIX 3.2.5? + + 6. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SOURCES (RFC 1807 bibliography format) + 6.1 Reference material devoted exlusively to sendmail + 6.2 Reference material with chapters or sections on sendmail + 6.3 Reference material on subjects related to sendmail + 6.4 World-wide web index pages on sendmail + 6.5 World-wide web index pages Internet email in general + 6.6 Online tutorials for sendmail + 6.7 Online archives of mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, + relating to Internet email + + 7. THANKS! + +------------------------------ + +Date: July 9, 1996 +Subject: Q4.1 -- Should I use a wildcard MX for my domain? + + If at all possible, no. + + Wildcard MX records have lots of semantic "gotcha"s. For example, +they will match a host "unknown.your.domain" -- if you don't +explicitly test for unknown hosts in your domain, you will get "config +error: mail loops back to myself". + + See RFCs 1535, 1536, and 1912 (updates RFC 1537) for more detail +and other related (or common) problems. See also _DNS and BIND_ by +Albitz and Liu. + + They can also cause your system to add your domain to outgoing +FQDNs in a desperate attempt to get the mail to where it's supposed to +go, but because *.your.domain is valid due to the wildcard MX, +delivery to not.real.domain.your.domain will get dumped on you, and +you may even find yourself in a loop as the domain keeps getting +tacked on time after time after time (the "config error: mail loops +back to myself" problem). + + + Wildcard MX records are just a bad idea, plain and simple. +They don't work the way you'd expect, and virtually no one gets +them right. Avoid them at all costs. + +------------------------------ + +Date: March 23, 1996 +Subject: Q4.2 -- How can I set up an auto-responder? + + This is a local mailer issue, not a sendmail issue. Depending on +what you're doing, look at procmail (see Q4.9), ftpmail, or Majordomo. + + + The latest version of Majordomo can be found at +<ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/majordomo/>. It is written in Perl and +requires either Perl 4.036, and appears to run with only minor tweaks +under 5.001a or later. Make sure to check out the web interface for +Majordomo called "Mailserv" at <http://iquest.com/~fitz/www/mailserv/> +or "LWGate" at <http://www.netspace.org/users/dwb/lwgate.html>. The +latest versions of Perl (both 4.x and 5.x) can be found in +<http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/src/>. More information about Perl +can be found at <http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/perl5.html> + + The latest version of ftpmail can be found at +<ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ftpmail> or any comp.sources.misc +archive (volume 37). + +------------------------------ + +Date: July 9, 1996 +Subject: Q4.3 -- How can I get sendmail to deliver local mail to + $HOME/.mail instead of into /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail)? + + Again, this is a local mailer issue, not a sendmail issue. Either +modify your local mailer (source code will be required) or change the +program called in the "local" mailer configuration description to be a +new program that does this local delivery. One program that is +capable of doing this is procmail (see Q4.9), although there are +probably many others as well. + + You might be interested in reading the paper ``HLFSD: Delivering +Email to your $HOME'' available in the Proceedings of the USENIX +System Administration (LISA VII) Conference (November 1993). More +information is at <ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/hlfsd/README.hlfsd>, +while the actual archive of the papers is at +<ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/hlfsd/hlfsd-paper.tar.gz> (tar archive, +gzip'ed). + +------------------------------ + +Date: March 23, 1996 +Subject: Q4.4 -- Why does it deliver the mail interactively when I'm + trying to get it to go into queue only mode? + + Or, I'm trying to use the "don't deliver to expensive mailer" +flag, and it delivers the mail interactively anyway. I can see it +does it: here's the output of "sendmail -v foo@somehost" (or Mail -v +or equivalent). + + + The -v flag to sendmail (which is implied by the -v flag to Mail +and other programs in that family) tells sendmail to watch the +transaction. Since you have explicitly asked to see what's going on, +it assumes that you do not want to to auto-queue, and turns that +feature off. Remove the -v flag and use a "tail -f" of the log +instead to see what's going on. + + If you are trying to use the "don't deliver to expensive mailer" +flag (mailer flag "e"), be sure you also turn on global option "c" -- +otherwise it ignores the mailer flag. + +------------------------------ + +Date: January 17, 1997 +Subject: Q4.5 -- How can I solve "config error: mail loops back to + myself" messages? + + I'm getting these error messages: + + 553 relay.domain.net config error: mail loops back to myself + 554 <user@domain.net>... Local configuration error + + How can I solve this problem? + + You have asked mail to the domain (e.g., domain.net) to be +forwarded to a specific host (in this case, relay.domain.net) +by using an MX record, but the relay machine doesn't recognize +itself as domain.net. Add domain.net to /etc/sendmail.cw (if you +are using FEATURE(use_cw_file)) or add "Cw domain.net" to your +configuration file. + + + IMPORTANT: When making changes to your configuration file, be +sure you kill and restart the sendmail daemon (for ANY change in the +configuration, not just this one): + + kill `head -1 /etc/sendmail.pid` + sh -c "`tail -1 /etc/sendmail.pid`" + + NOTA BENE: kill -1 does not work with versions prior to 8.7.y! + + With version 8.8.z sendmail, if the daemon was started up with +a full pathname (i.e., "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q13m"), then you +should be able to send it a HUP signal ("kill -1", or more safely, +"kill -HUP") and have it reload itself (version 8.7.y sendmail +cannot do this safely, and represents a security risk if it's not +replaced with version 8.8.3 or later). + +------------------------------ + +Date: March 23, 1996 +Subject: Q4.6 -- Why does my sendmail process sometimes hang when + connecting over a SLIP/PPP link? + + I'm connected to the network via a SLIP/PPP link. Sometimes my +sendmail process hangs (although it looks like part of the message has +been transfered). Everything else works. What's wrong? + + Most likely, the problem isn't sendmail at all, but the low level +network connection. It's important that the MTU (Maximum Transfer +Unit) for the SLIP connection be set properly at both ends. If they +disagree, large packets will be trashed and the connection will hang. + +------------------------------ + +Date: November 24, 1996 +Subject: Q4.7 -- How can I summarize the statistics generated by + sendmail in the syslog? + + This question is addressed on page 319 of _sendmail_ by Bryan +Costales. + + An updated version of this syslog-stat.pl script (so that +it understands the log format used in version 8 sendmail) is +at <ftp://ftp.his.com/pub/brad/sendmail/syslog_stats>. The +updated version of ssl has been uploaded to the SMTP Resources +Directory (in <ftp://ftp.is.co.za/networking/mail/tools/>), +as well as <ftp://ftp.his.com/pub/brad/sendmail/ssl>. +There is also another program (written by Bryan Beecher) at +<ftp://ftp.his.com/pub/brad/sendmail/smtpstats>. + + If you're interested in summarizing POP statistics, there is +<ftp://ftp.his.com/pub/brad/sendmail/popstats>, also written by +Bryan Beecher. + + + To see what else is available today, check the Comprehensive Perl +Archive Network <ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/CPAN> or +<ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/CPAN> for the site nearest you. +For the scripts themselves, look under CPAN/scripts/mailstuff/ at +any CPAN site. For more information, see the comp.lang.perl.* +FAQs at <ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu:/pub/perl/faq/FAQ> or +<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/comp.lang.perl.*/>. + + + There is also the "Sendmail Statistics Project" which has a web +page at <http://www.josnet.se/projects/ssp/>. Although they have +examples online of what the output might look like, it now appears +that this project is either dead or at least indefinitely on hold. +Still, you may be able to talk to the authors in order to get what +code from them you can. + + + If you're interested in using these kinds of tools to help +you do some near real-time monitoring of your system, you might be +interested in MEWS (Mail Early Warning System). From the README: + + If you've ever written a perl script to parse sendmail + log files looking for errors, MEWS might be of interest to + you. If you've ever thought about writing a perl script to + munge sendmail log files, cringed a little and hurriedly + came up with an excuse not to do it, read on. + + If you don't have a Solaris 2.5 machine, you can probably + stop reading here. + + The Mail Early Warning System (MEWS) gives postmasters + immediate notification of trouble spots on your mail + backbone. It only works with sendmail. + + To explain it in a nutshell, whenever sendmail returns a + 4xx or 5xx SMTP code, with the MEWS modifications, it also + sends the code over UDP to a daemon which then replays the + error message to interested parties. The man pages go into + a little bit more detail. + + + If this sounds like something you might be interested in +getting more details about, you can find the MEWS archive at +<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/pub/people/eamonn/mews.tar.Z>. + +------------------------------ + +Date: July 9, 1996 +Subject: Q4.8 -- How can I check my sendmail.cf to ensure that it's + re-writing addresses correctly? + + The recommended program for this is "checksendmail" by Rob +Kolstad. Old versions of this are available on various archive sites, +but currently, the only way to get the most recent version (which has +been updated to understand version 8.7 long option name syntax, as +well as now supporting both Perl 4.x and Perl 5.x) is from Rob +himself. + + The latest archive will be made publicly available (most likely +through the SMTPRD run by Andras Salamon; see Q6.5, entry +sendmail-faq//online/index/14) as soon as it is received. + +------------------------------ + +Date: July 9, 1996 +Subject: Q4.9 -- What is procmail, and where can I get it? + + The program "procmail" is a replacement for the local mailer +(variously called /bin/mail, /usr/bin/mail, mail.local, rmail, +etc...). It has been ported to run on virtually every OS you're +likely to run into, and has a whole host of features. It is typically +about 30% faster performing the job of the local mailer than programs +such as /bin/mail or /usr/bin/mail, it has been hammered on widely to +make it extremely secure (much more so than most local mailers) and +very robust. Procmail is also capable of helping you put a quota on a +user's mailbox through the standard Unix quota mechanism (see Q4.3). + + In short, whatever you've got, you're almost guaranteed that +procmail is better (if nothing else, the author has been able to focus +lots of time and energy into making it the best and fastest tool +available, while most system vendors just throw something together as +fast as they can and move on to the whole rest of the OS). + + However, this only begins to scratch the surface of what procmail +is capable of. It's most important feature is the fact that it gives +you a standard way to create rules (procmail calls them "recipes") to +process your mail before the messages get put into your mailbox, and +for that feature alone, it is one of the most important tools any +administrator can have in their repertoire. By filtering out or +automatically dealing with 80% of your daily cruft, it lets you spend +more time on the hard 20%. + + Note that recent releases of version 8 sendmail natively support +using procmail as an alternate local mailer (see +"FEATURE(local_procmail)" for version 8.7 and above). They also +support procmail as an additional local mailer, if you're concerned +about flat-out replacing your current local mailer with procmail (see +"MAILER(procmail)" in version 8.7 and above). + + + You can also install procmail as a user and run it out of your +.forward file, although this tends to be a bit slower and less +efficient. + + + The latest version of procmail can be found at +<ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/>. + + + Procmail is also the core to a mailing list management package +called "SmartList", so if you've already got procmail, adding +SmartList may be a good option. Some listowners prefer Majordomo, +Listserv, or one of those other programs, but SmartList has more than +a few adherents as well. Your personal tastes will dictate whether +you swear by SmartList or at it. + +------------------------------ + +Date: March 24, 1997 +Subject: Q4.10 -- How can I solve "cannot alias non-local names" + errors? + + I upgraded from my vendor's sendmail to the latest version and +now I'm getting these error messages when I run "newaliases": + + /etc/aliases: line 13: MAILER-DAEMON... cannot alias non-local names + /etc/aliases: line 14: postmaster... cannot alias non-local names + + How can I solve this problem? + + + Your local mailer doesn't have the "A" flag specified. Edit the +Mlocal line in sendmail.cf and add "A" to the flags listed after +"F=". + + Better yet, if you're running a recent version of sendmail +that uses m4 to generate .cf files from .mc files, regenerate your +sendmail.cf and see if that fixes the problem. Remember to install +the new sendmail.cf and restart the sendmail daemon. + +------------------------------ + +Date: March 23, 1996 +Subject: Q5.1.1 -- How can I solve "line 273: replacement $3 out of + bounds" errors? + + When I use sendmail V8 with a Sun config file I get lines like: + + /etc/sendmail.cf: line 273: replacement $3 out of bounds + + the line in question reads: + + R$*<@$%y>$* $1<@$2.LOCAL>$3 user@ether + + what does this mean? How do I fix it? + + V8 doesn't recognize the Sun "$%y" syntax, so as far as it is +concerned, there is only a $1 and a $2 (but no $3) in this line. Read +Rick McCarty's paper on "Converting Standard Sun Config Files to +Sendmail Version 8", in the contrib directory (file +"converting.sun.configs") in the latest version 8 sendmail +distribution for a full discussion of how to do this. + +------------------------------ + +Date: March 23, 1996 +Subject: Q5.1.2 -- How can I solve "line 445: bad ruleset 96 (50 max)" + errors? + + When I use sendmail V8 on a Sun, I sometimes get lines like: + + /etc/sendmail.cf: line 445: bad ruleset 96 (50 max) + + what does this mean? How do I fix it? + + You're somehow trying to start up the old Sun sendmail (or +sendmail.mx) with a version 8 sendmail config file, which Sun's +sendmail doesn't like. Check your /etc/rc.local, any procedures that +have been created to stop and re-start the sendmail processes, etc.... +Make sure that you've switched everything over to using the new +sendmail. To keep this problem from ever happening again, try the +following (make sure you're logged in as root): + + mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.old + ln -s /usr/local/lib/sendmail.v8 /usr/lib/sendmail + mv /usr/lib/sendmail.mx /usr/lib/sendmail.mx.old + ln -s /usr/local/lib/sendmail.v8 /usr/lib/sendmail.mx + chmod 0000 /usr/lib/sendmail.old + chmod 0000 /usr/lib/sendmail.mx.old + + Assuming, of course, that you have installed sendmail V8 in +/usr/local/lib/sendmail.v8. + +------------------------------ + +Date: May 23, 1996 +Subject: Q5.1.3 -- Why does version 8 sendmail (< 8.7.5) sometimes + hang under Solaris 2.5? + + In moving from Solaris 2.4 to Solaris 2.5, the kernel changed its +name and is now in /kernel/genunix instead of /kernel/unix, so +_PATH_UNIX in conf.h is pointing to the wrong place. + + If you can't upgrade to the latest release of sendmail 8.8.z, +the next best thing to do is change _PATH_UNIX in conf.h (in the +solaris2 part) to point to the generic interface /dev/ksyms, like so: + + # define _PATH_UNIX "/dev/ksyms" + +------------------------------ + +Date: November 24, 1996 +Subject: Q5.1.4 -- Why can't I use SunOS/Solaris to get email to + certain large sites? + + This is most likely a problem in your resolver libraries +(DNS, /etc/hosts, NIS, etc...). Older Sun (and Solaris?) resolver +libraries allocated enough room for only five IP addresses for each +host name, and if any program ever ran across a name with more than +five IP addresses for it, the program would crash. + + For example, this would keep you from getting mail to CompuServe, +since (at the time of this writing) they list eleven IP addresses +for mx1.compuserve.com (one of the named MXes for compuserve.com). + + This will affect you even if you use version 8 sendmail, since +it's a problem in the resolver libraries, and not in sendmail itself. + + + You should either get patches to the resolver libraries from +Sun, or the latest version of BIND (see Q2.12) and install their +resolver library routines. Between the two, installing BIND is a +bit more work, but it typically gives you much more up-to-date code +to help you resist attacks to your systems, more capable programs +to be used for serving the DNS (including support for IPv6 and +several other features), and some very useful utility programs. + +------------------------------ + +Date: July 5, 1996 +Subject: Q5.2.1 -- The system resource controller always reports + sendmail as "inoperative". What's wrong? + + When I use version 8 sendmail on an IBM RS/6000 running AIX, the +system resource controller always reports sendmail as "inoperative", +even though it's actually running. What's wrong? + + When running as a daemon, sendmail detaches from its parent +process, fooling the SRC into thinking that sendmail has exited. To +fix this, issue the commands: + + kill `head -1 /etc/sendmail.pid` + chssys -s sendmail -f 9 -n 15 -S -a "-d99.100" + # use "-d0.1" in sendmail 8.6.x + startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m" + # your sendmail args may vary + + Now the SRC should report the correct status of sendmail. If you +are using version 8.6.x, use "-d0.1" instead of "-d99.100" (the debug +options changed somewhat in version 8.7). In 8.6.x a side-effect of +the "-d0.1" option is that a few lines of debug output will be printed +on the system console every time sendmail starts up. + + For more information, read up on the System Resource Controller, +the lssrc command and the chssys command in the online AIX +documentation. + +------------------------------ + +Date: May 23, 1996 +Subject: Q5.2.2 -- Why can't I use AIX to get email to some sites? + + When I use IBM's sendmail on an IBM RS/6000 running AIX trying to +get to certain sites, it seems that I can get to some of them and not +others. What's wrong? + + There are two possible problems here: + + 1) Your version of sendmail is not configured to recognize MX + records in the DNS. Search through your sendmail.cf + looking for "OK MX" or "OK ALL". Older configurations had + this line commented out, and this will cause mail from you + to some sites to fail (because those sites have MX + records, but no A records in their DNS for the specific + Fully Qualified Domain Name you're trying to mail to). + + For more information, see the comp.unix.aix FAQ + <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/aix-faq/>. + + 2) There is a negative caching bug in AIX 3.2.5 with + /usr/sbin/named executables that are less than 103000 + bytes long. Ask your IBM representative to give you PMP + 3251, or the most recent patch that fixes this problem for + your particular configuration and version of the OS. + +------------------------------ + +Date: July 5, 1996 +Subject: Q5.2.3 -- Why can't I get sendmail 8.7.1 to use MX records + with AIX 3.2.5? + + IBM, in their infinite wisdom, provided a header file that would +easily mis-compile. This resulted in the struct{} for the DNS query +to be mis-allocated, and MX processing would barf. + + Fix 1) upgrade to 8.7.5 - this has a code fix for this problem. + + Fix 2) Install the BIND 4.9.4 libraries and include files and +tweak the Makefile.AIX to use them - I *think* these Get It Right (if +not, at least it'll die during compile rather than failing weirdly at +runtime). + + Fix 3) Hack Makefile.AIX to pass a -DBIT_ZERO_ON_LEFT to cause the +headers to use the right #ifdefs. + +------------------------------ + +Date: January 21, 1997 +Subject: Q6 -- Additional information sources + + This probably isn't in strict RFC 1807 format, but I'm getting +closer. Unfortunately, the format detailed in RFC 1807 was never +intended to be used in this fashion, so I'm doing a bit of square-peg +fitting into round holes. + + Note that the publisher ids that I've assigned should not be +misconstrued to imply that I have actually published all these +documents, it's just that I need some sort of reasonable entry for the +RFC 1807 "ID" field, and in lieu of information to the contrary +indicating what the actual publishers have registered, I have assigned +my own, independant, "third-party" IDs. Hopefully, the bibliographic +entries below make it obvious who the real publishers of the various +documents are. + + + 6.1 Reference material devoted exlusively to sendmail + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/reference/1 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Reference manual, available online in printable format + REVISION:: January 21, 1997; Updated URL & mailing list info + TITLE:: Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide + AUTHOR:: Allman, Eric + CONTACT:: Eric Allman <eric@Sendmail.ORG> + InReference, Inc. + NASA Ames Technology Commercialization Center + 155-A Moffett Park Drive, Suite 104 + Sunnyvale, CA 94089 + Phone: 1+408 541-7615 + Fax: 1+408 734-4946 + DATE:: November 19, 1995 + PAGES:: 69 + RETRIEVAL:: Contents of manual is in doc/op/op.ps of sendmail source + archive + KEYWORD:: version 8.7.5 sendmail + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: {g|n}roff "me" macro format version is in doc/op/op.me + See: URL:http://www.sendmail.org/ + +ABSTRACT:: + +The documentation written by Eric Allman himself, comes with the +sendmail distribution. The file in doc/op/op.me (nroff "me" macro +format) may have a different number of pages depending on the type of +device it is printed on, etc.... + +Eric provides his free consulting in the form of continuing +development on sendmail, and occasional posts to comp.mail.sendmail. +Please don't be so rude as to ask him to provide further free +consulting directly to you. If you (or your company) is willing to +compensate his for his consulting time, he may be willing to listen. +At the very least, you should make sure you've exhausted all other +courses of action before resorting to adding another message to the +thousands he gets per day. + + +Check the sendmail home page at <http://www.sendmail.org/> for +late-breaking updates and other useful information. + +If you want to be notified regarding future updates to sendmail and +other items of potential interest, you may want to subscribe to the +sendmail-announce mailing list. Address your subscription requests +to "majordomo@lists.sendmail.org" with "subscribe sendmail-announce" +as the body of the message. + + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/reference/1 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-056-2 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + REVISION:: January 21, 1997; Updated info re: 2nd Ed. + TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy + TITLE:: sendmail + AUTHOR:: Costales, Bryan + AUTHOR:: Allman, Eric + AUTHOR:: Rickert, Neil + CONTACT:: Bryan Costales <bcx@BCX.COM> + O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. + 103 Morris Street, Suite A + Sebastapol, CA 95472 + Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries) + 800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders) + 707-829-0515 (local/overseas) + DATE:: November, 1993 + PAGES:: 792 + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1993 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights + reserved. + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/sendmail.html + +ABSTRACT:: + +The definitive reference for version 8 sendmail. + +At least three printings of first edition have come out, and the +information above is for the first printing. + +As of yet, this book has not been updated to include versions of +sendmail after 8.6.4. + +Bryan provides his consulting to the world in the form of his book, +unless you're willing to compensate him for his services as well. +Like Eric, you should make sure you've exhausted all other courses of +action before you spend any of his valuable time. + + +The second edition has now been published (focussing exclusively +on version 8.8 sendmail), with an ISBN of 1-56592-222-0. It has +been expanded to 1,050 pages long and expanded coverage of many +new topics too numerous to name. + +END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-056-2 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-55558-127-7 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy + REVISION:: Sep 9, 1996; fixed typo + TITLE:: Sendmail: Theory and Practice + AUTHOR:: Avolio, Frederick M. + AUTHOR:: Vixie, Paul A. + CONTACT:: Fred Avolio <fma@al.org>, Paul Vixie <vix@al.org> + Digital Press + 225 Wildwood Avenue + Woburn, MA 01801, USA + Ordering Info: voice 1 800 366 2665 + fax 1 800 446 6520 + DATE:: 1994 + PAGES:: 262 + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) by 1995 Butterworth-Heinemann + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.vix.com/vix/smtap/ + +ABSTRACT:: + +Centers more on IDA sendmail (at least partly because version 8 didn't +exist when they began the book). Written more like a college +Sophomore or Junior level textbook. + +While you'll probably never let the Costales book out of your grubby +little hands (especially if you do much work with version 8 sendmail), +this is a book you'll probably read once or maybe twice, learn some +very valuable things, but then likely put on a shelf and not read or +reference again (unless you have to write up a bibliographic entry for +it). Makes a better introduction to sendmail for management types, +especially if you don't want them getting their hands on too much +"dangerous" technical information. Also a *lot* smaller and less +imposing. + +If possible, I recommend getting both, but if you can only get one, +get Costales unless you're going to be working exclusively with IDA +sendmail, in which case Avolio & Vixie will probably be more useful. + +Note that Paul Vixie is extremely busy working on further development +of BIND, the Internet de facto standard program for serving the DNS, +upon which all Internet services depend, mail being only one of them. +Like Eric and Bryan, he's also very busy. Unless you're willing to +compensate him for his services, please let him get real work done. + +END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-55558-127-7 + + + 6.2 Reference material with chapters or sections on sendmail + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-13-151051-7 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy + REVISION:: May 23, 1996; Updated abstract. + TITLE:: Unix System Administration Handbook, Second Edition + AUTHOR:: Nemeth, Evi + AUTHOR:: Snyder, Garth + AUTHOR:: Seebass, Scott + AUTHOR:: Hein, Trent R. + CONTACT:: <sa-book@admin.com> + Prentice-Hall, Inc. + Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 + DATE:: January, 1995 + PAGES:: 780 + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.admin.com/ + +ABSTRACT:: + +Still the best hands-on Unix System Administration book around. +Covers far more than just sendmail, but the sixty-four pages (pages +455-518 in the third printing) it does devote are very well written +and quite useful. Also provides a version of Rob Kolstad's +checksendmail script on the accompanying CD-ROM. + +Note that Eric Allman and Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote the Foreword +for the Second Edition. This should give you at least an inkling as +to how essential this book is, even for experienced Unix +administrators. + +END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-13-151051-7 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-201-58629=0 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; Changed ID format to include ISBN, + moved URL to NOTES field from OTHER_ACCESS field, + also updated ABSTRACT + REVISION:: March 29, 1996; Updated ID, PAGES, COPYRIGHT, and ABSTRACT + TITLE:: Practical Internetworking With TCP/IP and UNIX + AUTHOR:: Carl-Mitchell, Smoot + AUTHOR:: Quarterman, John S. + CONTACT:: <tic@tic.com> + Addison Wesley Publishing Company + Computer Science & Engineering Division + One Jacob Way + Reading, MA 01867 + USA + Orders: voice://800-822-6339 (USA) + fax://617-942-1117 + DATE:: 1993 + PAGES:: 476 + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1993 by Addison-Wesley Publishing + Company, Inc. + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: See URL:http://heg-school.aw.com/cseng/authors/mitchell/ + practical/practical.html + +ABSTRACT:: + +Devotes 50 pages (most of chapter 8) to discussion of sendmail. As +far as TCP/IP networking books go that also happen to discuss +sendmail, it seems well-written and clear (better than I recall Hunt's +book being), but rather dated in the face of books devoted to the +topic and all the recent development activity in the sendmail +community. Forget about the references, though. The newest +sendmail-related reference listed is dated 1983, ten years before the +date on this book and most certainly wildly out-of-date now. + +There are other books written on the subject of Internetworking with +TCP/IP (most notably Comer), but this particular book seems to have a +unique mix of theory (if perhaps a bit dated) and practical advice. +Other books tend to have lots of one or the other, or split their +theory and nitty-gritty details into separate books in a series (like +Comer). + +Assuming that an update will be coming out soon, it probably deserves +a place on the shelf of most System or Network Administrators, right +next to _Internetworking with TCP/IP_ by Comer, _Managing Internet +Information Services_ by Liu, et. al., _DNS and BIND_ by Albitz and +Liu, _Unix System Administration_ by Nemeth, et. al., and last, but +certainly not least, _sendmail_ by Costales. However, it deserves +this place more because of the non-sendmail related material, as +opposed to what sendmail-related material there is. + +END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-201-58629-0 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-82-X + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; Changed ID format to include ISBN, + moved URL to NOTES field from OTHER_ACCESS field + TITLE:: TCP/IP Network Administration + AUTHOR:: Hunt, Craig + CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. + 103 Morris Street, Suite A + Sebastapol, CA 95472 + Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries) + 800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders) + 707-829-0515 (local/overseas) + DATE:: August, 1992 + PAGES:: 502 + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/tcp.html + +ABSTRACT:: + +The book I learned sendmail from when there was no other book in print +that even mentioned the name. + +Here primarily for historical purposes, especially with respect to the +sending of Internet mail and the DNS. Some of the other TCP/IP +networking stuff is relevant, but this book is getting more and more +dated as time goes by. + +END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-82-X + + + 6.3 Reference material on subjects related to sendmail + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-010-4 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy + REVISION:: January 21, 1997; Updated info re: 2nd Ed. + TITLE:: DNS and BIND + AUTHOR:: Albitz, Paul + AUTHOR:: Liu, Cricket + CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. + 103 Morris Street, Suite A + Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries) + 800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders) + 707-829-0515 (local/overseas) + DATE:: October 1992 + PAGES:: 418 + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1992 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights + reserved. + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/dns.html + +ABSTRACT:: + +As definitive as Costales is on sendmail, this book is on the subject +of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the most common server software +for the DNS, namely BIND. + +It hasn't been updated yet to reflect the massive changes that +happened with BIND 4.9.3 (and the recent flurry of related activity in +the DNS community), but even as old as it is, it still stands the test +of time as the one book *every* DNS/Domain Administrator should have +on their shelf. + +Since the sending of Internet mail is so very heavily dependant on the +DNS, it obviously also belongs on the shelf of any Postmaster or +System Administrator whose site does Internet email. And that means +virtually every administrator of every site on the Internet. + + +This book has recently been updated with a second edition, ISBN +1-56592-236-0 and 438 pages. It includes updated discussion of +BIND 4.9.4, as well as many other topics. + +END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-010-4 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-93-5 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; Changed ID format to include ISBN, + moved URL to NOTES field from OTHER_ACCESS field + TITLE:: Managing UUCP and Usenet + AUTHOR:: Todino, Grace + AUTHOR:: O'Reilly, Tim + CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. + 103 Morris Street, Suite A + Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries) + 800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders) + 707-829-0515 (local/overseas) + DATE:: January 1992 + PAGES:: 368 + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/muucp.html + +ABSTRACT:: + +The definitive book for installing and managing UUCP. + +The general assumption with version 8 sendmail is that virtually no +one uses UUCP to send email anymore, but if that assumption isn't true +for you, then you probably need this book. + +END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-93-5 + + + 6.4 World-wide web index/resource pages on sendmail + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/10 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online sendmail index + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: comp.mail.sendmail FAQ Support Page + AUTHOR:: Knowles, Brad + CONTACT:: Brad Knowles <brad@etext.org> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.his.com/~brad/sendmail/ + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +Support Page for this FAQ. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/10 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/17 + ENTRY:: March 25, 1996 + TYPE:: Online sendmail index + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: comp.mail.sendmail Most Frequently Asked Questions Support Page + AUTHOR:: Assman, Claus + CONTACT:: Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/english.html + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +Most Frequently Asked Questions on comp.mail.sendmail and their +answers. Also has some links to a few other resources. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/17 + + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/11 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online sendmail index + REVISION:: May 23, 1996; Updated abstract. + TITLE:: Henry's sendmail Page! + AUTHOR:: Farkas, Henry + CONTACT:: Henry Farkas <hfarkas@ims.advantis.com> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://newstand.ims.advantis.com/henry/sendmail.html + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +Has collected a few direct pointers to a few places, although I prefer +to either have pointers to well-known index sites and let them do the +hard work for me or do myself the work of making my site one of those +well-known indexes. + +Still, worth taking a look at. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/11 + + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/resources/22 + ENTRY:: November 24, 1996 + TITLE:: IICONS Sendmail Resources + AUTHOR:: Caloca, Paul + CONTACT:: Paul Caloca <pcaloca@iicons.com> + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1996 Paul Caloca. All Rights Reserved. +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.iicons.com/sendmail/index.html + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +Provides information on how to compile Sendmail and the NEWDB +db.1.85 for Solaris 2. Also has a section on which Sun patches +update Solaris 2 to BIND 4.9.3. + +Has pointers to some non-Sun/Solaris sendmail resources, especially +including CERT Advisories related to sendmail. + + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/22 + + + 6.5 World-wide web index pages and other reference on Internet + email in general + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/12 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online general Internet email index + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: Internet Mail Consortium web site + CORP-AUTHOR:: Internet Mail Consortium + CONTACT:: <info@imc.org> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.imc.org/ + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +If it has to do with Internet email, you'll probably find it here or a +link to it from here. + +They have or have information on email-related Usenet FAQs, RFCs, +Internet Drafts (documents that are in the process of becoming RFCs), +IETF Working Groups, security standards, and are running a few +email-related mailing lists. + +Tends to be focussed on the standards issues. + +If you care about Internet email, you should make it your duty in life +to check this site frequently. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/12 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/13 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online general Internet email index + REVISION:: August 20, 1996; Updated URL. + TITLE:: Email References + AUTHOR:: Wohler, Bill + CONTACT:: Bill Wohler <wohler@worldtalk.com> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.worldtalk.com/html/msg_resources/email_ref.html + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +The most exhaustive index site I know of for Internet email related +documents outside of the Internet Mail Consortium. + +Also has pointers to other organizations that relate to Internet +email, such as the Electronic Messaging Association and the European +Electronic Messaging Association. + +Tends to be focussed on the server and standards issues. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/13 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/14 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online general Internet email index + REVISION:: June 28, 1996; Added acronym for SMTPRD + TITLE:: SMTP Resources Directory (SMTPRD) + AUTHOR:: Salamon, Andras + AUTHOR:: Knowles, Brad + CONTACT:: Andras Salamon <smtprd@dns.net> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.dns.net/smtprd/ + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +Another good index site, but still very much in the early phases of +gestation. Based very heavily on the DNS Resources Directory, also by +Andras Salamon, at <http://www.is.co.za/dnsrd/>. + +A well-rounded site, for the amount of material it covers so far. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/14 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/15 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online general Internet email index + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: E-Mail Web Resources + AUTHOR:: Wall, Matt + CONTACT:: Matt Wall <wall+@cmu.edu> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/email/email.html + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +Another good index site, tends to be more focussed on client side and +LAN email packages. Also lists some email services, which no one else +that I've seen appears to have taken the time to catalog. + +Excellent side-by-side feature comparison of various MUAs and their +compliance with various Internet protocols. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/15 + + + 6.6 Online tutorials for sendmail + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/9 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: Sendmail V8: A (Smoother) Engine Powers Network Email + AUTHOR:: Reich, Richard + CONTACT:: Richard Reich <richard@reich.com> + DATE:: February 8, 1996 + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. + All Rights Reserved. +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.unixworld.com/unixworld/archives/95/tutorial/ + 008/008.txt.html + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: UnixWorld Online: Tutorial: Article No. 008 + +ABSTRACT:: + +Good technical introduction. Some useful references. Notably does +not reference this FAQ as a place to get more information. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/article/9 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/16 + ENTRY:: March 23, 1996 + TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: Sendmail -- Care and Feeding + AUTHOR:: Quinton, Reg + CONTACT:: Reg Quinton <reggers@julian.uwo.ca> + Computing and Communications Services + The University of Western Ontario + London, Ontario N6A 5B7 + Canada + DATE:: March 24, 1992 +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mail/sendmail/uwo-course/ + sendmail.txt.Z + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: Postscript version also available. See ftp://ftp.sterling.com/ + mail/sendmail/uwo-course/sendmail.ps.Z + +ABSTRACT:: + +Dated. Only here until I find better. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/16 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/21 + ENTRY:: March 27, 1996 + TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial + TITLE:: Explosion in a Punctuation Factory + AUTHOR:: Bryan Costales + CONTACT:: Becca Thomas <editor@unixworld.com> + DATE:: January 1994 + COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. + All Rights Reserved. +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.unixworld.com/unixworld/archives/94/tutorial/ + 01/01.txt.html + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +Good introduction on how sendmail re-write rules work. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/article/21 + + + 6.7 Online archives of mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, + relating to Internet email + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/18 + ENTRY:: March 25, 1996 + TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: DejaNews +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.dejanews.com + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: Archives/indexes only Usenet news. + +ABSTRACT:: + +The first, and still most focussed, Usenet news archive/index site. +Others archive/index news as well as other things, but none that I've +seen do it better. + +Go to "Power Search" then "Query Filter" if you wish to restrict the +newsgroups you search on to something like just comp.mail.sendmail and +not all newsgroups. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/18 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/19 + ENTRY:: March 25, 1996 + TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive + REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to + OTHER_ACCESS field. + TITLE:: AltaVista +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.altavista.digital.com + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: Archives/indexes Usenet news and World-wide web pages. + +ABSTRACT:: + +One of the leading indexes of world-wide web pages, and their +archive/index of Usenet news is obviously secondary. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/19 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/20 + ENTRY:: March 25, 1996 + TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive + REVISION:: July 9, 1996; Additional information based on experience + TITLE:: InReference +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.reference.com + LANGUAGE:: English + NOTES:: Not officially online yet, in final stages of beta + +ABSTRACT:: + +Has promise to be the best Usenet news/publicly accessible mailing +list index/archive site in the world. We'll see how well it delivers +on this promise. It's in the final stages of beta testing (and is now +open to the public), and seems quite solid. I haven't yet figured out +how to really make proper use of the underlying power I'm sure is +there, but it looks good. Of course, you'll need to wait a little +while as they backfill their archives before searches will turn up all +that much information, but it already compares favourably to DejaNews. + +Some of the best minds I know of are working on this project, so if it +can be done, I figure they can do it. + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/20 + + BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1 + ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/21 + ENTRY:: May 24, 1996 + TYPE:: Online archive of spam/junkmail + TITLE:: list-managers spam discussion archives + AUTHOR:: Gilman, Al + CONTACT:: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net> +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/spam/ +OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:ftp://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/spam/ + LANGUAGE:: English + +ABSTRACT:: + +These collections of past mail from the list-managers discussion list +can be retrieved by ftp or HTTP. + +For anonymous ftp, open ftp.digex.net and cd to +/pub/access/asgilman/spam. + +For http, G)o to http://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/spam/ In this +directory you will find, _inter alia_, two files which are mail +folders: + + spam -- collects examples of spams + spam-NOT -- collects discussion of spam countermeasures + +END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/21 + +------------------------------ + +Date: July 9, 1996 +Subject: Q7 -- THANKS! + + +Special thanks to: + + Eric Allman The core of the material here comes from + his FAQ for version 8.6.9 sendmail. I + couldn't even have gotten started were it + not for him. And if he hadn't written + sendmail, there obviously wouldn't even + be a FAQ. Heck, there might not even be an + Internet. + + Paul Southworth Provides FAQ posting services, useful + comments on various sections, and the + mailclient-faq. I couldn't have kept + doing this were it not for his help. + + Ed Ravin Virtually all the material regarding the + use of sendmail on AIX is his, and most + of it has been carried over verbatim. + +Thanks also to: + + Neil Hoggarth, Andras Salamon, Johan Svensson, Christopher X. + Candreva, Bill Wohler, Matthew Wall, Henry W. Farkas, Claus + Assmann, Curt Sampson, Rebecca Lasher, Jim Davis, David Keegel, + Betty Lee, Alain Durand, Walter Schweizer, Christophe Wolfhugel, + Al Gilman, Valdis Kletnieks, John Gardiner Myers, Paul DuBois, + Adam Bentley, Dave Sill, Dave Wreski, Paul Caloca, Eamonn + Coleman, Michael Fuhr, Betty Lee, Derrell Lipman, and the + readers and posters of comp.mail.sendmail. + +------------------------------ + +Comments/updates should be sent to <sendmail-faq@etext.org>. + +Copyright 1996, by Brad Knowles, all rights reserved + +End of comp.mail.sendmail Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), part 2 of 2 +*********************************************************************** |