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+ ***** Important notes on sendmail 8.9.2 ****
+
+1) Sendmail now always uses TCP wrappers (/etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny)
+ This is a change from prior versions where wrapper support was enabled
+ via sendmail.mc.
+
+ Please make sure you add the appropriate entry to the /etc/hosts.* file.
+ The most likely candidate is to place sendmail: all in /etc/hosts.allow
+
+2) You should *really* read RELEASE_NOTES... There are *many* changes for
+ spam control.
+ A) Relaying is, by default, prohibitted
+ B) Mail from non-resolvable domains is, by default, prohibitted
+
+ **** Other information ****
+
+This Debian package includes an automatic configuration utility
+`sendmailconfig' which can be run at any time to modify the current sendmail
+configuration.
+
+Most mail-related configuration files are kept in the /etc/mail directory.
+
+Specialized configurations can be accomplished by editing the file
+/etc/mail/sendmail.mc by hand and then running `sendmailconfig' to generate
+and use the appropriate corresponding sendmail.cf file. Such configurations
+can make use of the m4 configuration macros kept in the /usr/share/sendmail.cf
+directory. See also the other documentation in this directory.
+
+Finally, the file /etc/aliases holds a text representation of the current mail
+aliases. See the aliases(5) man page for more information. If you edit this
+file, be sure to run `newaliases' to update the corresponding binary database.
+