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diff --git a/debian/part2 b/debian/part2 deleted file mode 100644 index d91ab4d..0000000 --- a/debian/part2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1467 +0,0 @@ -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 -*********************************************************************** |