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diff --git a/debian/sendmail.README.Debian b/debian/sendmail.README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7cad251 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/sendmail.README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ + ***** 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. + |