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-Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kodak.com!news-nysernet-16.sprintlink.net!news-in-east1.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-feed1.tiac.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.uswest.net!newsfeed3.uswest.net!namche.Sun.COM!sunnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!opal!jbeck
-From: John Beck <jbeck@eng.sun.com>
-Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc,comp.answers,news.answers
-Subject: sendmail FAQ
-Supersedes: <sendmail-faq-1-913320001@eng.sun.com>
-Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
-Date: 25 Dec 1998 20:00:23 GMT
-Organization: Sendmail Consortium
-Lines: 159
-Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
-Distribution: world
-Expires: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:00:02 GMT
-Message-ID: <sendmail-faq-1-914616002@eng.sun.com>
-Reply-To: sendmail+faq@sendmail.org (Sendmail FAQ)
-NNTP-Posting-Host: opal.eng.sun.com
-Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions
- about the program "sendmail", distributed with many versions of Unix.
- The answers are at the given URLs. They should be read by anyone who
- wishes to post to the Usenet newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail.
-Keywords: sendmail, mail, SMTP, FAQ
-Originator: jbeck@opal
-Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.mail.sendmail:67640 comp.mail.misc:47448 comp.answers:34384 news.answers:147451
-
-Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 (Perl 5.006)
-Archive-name: mail/sendmail/faq
-Posting-Frequency: posted on the 10th and 25th of each month
-Last-modified: December 22, 1998
-URL: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/
-Maintainer: Sendmail FAQ <sendmail+faq@sendmail.org>
-
- Sendmail
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
-
- Last updated December 22, 1998
-
- Changes since the last post on 10 Dec 1998 20:00:28 GMT
- * Updated 4.7
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Questions about the FAQ: <sendmail+faq@sendmail.org>
- * General questions: <sendmail-questions@sendmail.org>
- * Bug reports: <sendmail-bugs@sendmail.org>
- * Questions/comments about the web site <sendmail-www@sendmail.org>
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- If you post a message to comp.mail.sendmail *and* send it to one of the
- above addresses, please clearly indicate so at the top of your message.
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Table of Contents
-
- * 1. COPYRIGHT NOTICE / REDISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS
- http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section1.html
-
- * 2. INTRODUCTION / MISCELLANEOUS
- http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section2.html
-
- + 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 on my machine?
- + 2.17 What is makemap and where can I get it?
-
- * 3. VERSION 8 SPECIFIC ISSUES
- http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html
-
- + 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'' or ``Different_Name@My.Domain''?
- + 3.3 Why are you so hostile to using full names for email addresses?
- + 3.4 So what was the user database feature intended for?
- + 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" or
- "reply: read error from host.name" 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 Unix From line get 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 not to use DNS?
- + 3.23 How do I get all my queued mail delivered to my Unix box from
- my ISP?
- + 3.24 Why do I get the error message unable to write
- /etc/mail/sendmail.pid?
- + 3.25 Why can't I compile sendmail with Berkeley DB 2.X?
- + 3.26 What operating systems has Berkeley sendmail been ported to?
- + 3.27 How do I prevent "Relaying Denied" errors for my clients?
- + 3.28 Why isn't virtual hosting working, even after I added a
- "Kvirtuser" line to sendmail.cf ?
- + 3.29 How can I add a header specifying the actual recipient when having
- multiple users in a virtual domain go to a single mailbox?
- + 3.30 What do I do when Build fails because groff was not found?
- + 3.31 What does "class hash not available" mean?
-
- * 4. GENERAL SENDMAIL ISSUES
- http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html
-
- + 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 "MX list for hostname points back to hostname"
- and "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?
- + 4.11 Is sendmail Year 2000 compliant?
- + 4.12 How can I batch remote mail to be sent using my ISP while
- delivering local mail immediately?
- + 4.13 What does "unknown mailer error 1" mean?
-
- * 5. VENDOR/OS SPECIFIC SENDMAIL ISSUES
- http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section5.html
-
- + 5.1 Sun Microsystems SunOS/Solaris 1.x/2.x
-
- o 5.1.1 How can I solve "line 273: replacement $3 out of bounds"
- errors?
- o 5.1.2 How can I solve "line 445: bad ruleset 96 (50 max)" errors?
- o 5.1.3 Why does version 8 sendmail (< 8.7.5) sometimes hang
- under Solaris 2.5?
- o 5.1.4 Why can't I use SunOS/Solaris to get email to certain
- large sites?
- o 5.1.5 Why do I have trouble compiling on Solaris?
- o 5.1.6 How does 8.X compare to 8.X+Sun?
-
- + 5.2 IBM AIX
-
- o 5.2.1 The system resource controller always reports sendmail
- as "inoperative". What's wrong?
- o 5.2.2 Why can't I use AIX to get email to some sites?
- o 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)
- http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section6.html
-
- + 6.1 Reference material devoted exclusively 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!
- http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section7.html