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+.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
+.\" License
+.\"
+.\" $Id: sendmailconfig.8,v 2.0 1999/10/21 11:30:00 cowboy Exp $
+.\"
+.TH SENDMAILCONFIG 8 "October 21 1999"
+.UC 4
+.SH NAME
+sensible\-mda \- a generic sendmail local MDA for Debian systems
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B sensible\-mda
+.IR from
+.IR to
+.IR detail
+.IR client\-addr
+.br
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B sensible\-mda
+is used to simplify the installation and configuration of
+.BR sendmail (8)
+for use on Debian systems. With sensible\-mda, sendmail can support
+a plethora of MDAs (procmail, deliver, etc.) without having pick any
+.I one
+of them as required.
+.LP
+.SH FUNCTION
+.B sensible\-mda
+is called by sendmail as a local mailer when the following exists in
+sendmail.mc:
+.br
+.I define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `sensible-mda $g $u $h ${client_addr}')dnl
+.LP
+sensible-mda
+will look for the following MDAs (in this order), and pass the mail
+on to the first SUID MDA found:
+.BR procmail (1),
+.BR deliver (8)
+.LP
+.SH OPTIONS
+Available command line options are the following:
+.TP
+.I from
+The sender of this email
+(sendmail $g variable)
+.TP
+.I to
+The recipient of this email
+(sendmail $u variable)
+.TP
+.I detail
+The detail portion of the recipient userid
+(sendmail $h variable)
+\- ie:
+.br
+cowboy\+\fIsendmail\fP@debian.org
+.TP
+.I client\-addr
+TCP/IP address of the sender
+(sendmail ${client_addr} variable)
+Not used (for the nonce)
+.SH FILES
+.TP
+.I /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
+sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf
+.TP
+.I /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
+actual sendmail configuration file (treated as a binary file)
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR sendmail (8),
+.BR procmail (1),
+.BR deliver (8)
+.br
+.SH BUGS
+None known so far.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>
+.SH HISTORY