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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY sendmail-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY sendmail-download-http "http://www.sendmail.org/ftp/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz">
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[80ff2bf1] | 9 | <!ENTITY sendmail-size "1.9 MB">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY sendmail-buildsize "18.6 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY sendmail-time "0.34 SBU">
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[0931098] | 12 | ]>
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| 13 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 14 | <sect1 id="sendmail-package" xreflabel="Sendmail-&sendmail-version;">
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[051a187] | 15 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 16 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 17 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[051a187] | 18 | </sect1info>
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[00bb024c] | 19 | <?dbhtml filename="sendmail.html"?>
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[547df0bc] | 20 | <title>Sendmail-&sendmail-version;</title>
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[80ff2bf1] | 21 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package">
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| 22 | <primary sortas="a-sendmail-package">Sendmail</primary></indexterm>
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[f45b1953] | 23 |
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[0931098] | 24 | <sect2>
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| 25 | <title>Introduction to <application>Sendmail</application></title>
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| 26 |
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[65e6ea9] | 27 | <para>The <application>Sendmail</application> package contains a Mail
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| 28 | Transport Agent (<acronym>MTA</acronym>).</para>
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[0931098] | 29 |
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| 30 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 31 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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[80ff2bf1] | 32 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP):
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| 33 | <ulink url="&sendmail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 34 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP):
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| 35 | <ulink url="&sendmail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[0931098] | 36 | <listitem><para>Download size: &sendmail-size;</para></listitem>
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[80ff2bf1] | 37 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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| 38 | &sendmail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 39 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 40 | &sendmail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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[0931098] | 41 | </sect3>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect3><title><application>Sendmail</application> dependencies</title>
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[65e6ea9] | 44 |
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[0931098] | 45 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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| 46 | <para><xref linkend="db"/> and <xref linkend="procmail"/>
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| 47 | </para></sect4>
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[65e6ea9] | 48 |
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| 49 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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[939cf0da] | 50 | <para><xref linkend="openssl-package"/>,
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[80ff2bf1] | 51 | <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
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| 52 | <xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/>,
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| 53 | <xref linkend="pcre"/>,
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[957e607d] | 54 | <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
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[051a187] | 55 | <ulink url="http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/nph/">nph</ulink>, and
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| 56 | <xref linkend="gs"/> or <xref linkend="espgs"/> (for creating
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| 57 | <acronym>PDF</acronym> documentation)
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[65e6ea9] | 58 | </para></sect4>
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[0931098] | 59 | </sect3>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | </sect2>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <sect2>
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| 64 | <title>Installation of <application>Sendmail</application></title>
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| 65 |
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[65e6ea9] | 66 | <para>Before building <application>Sendmail</application>, create the users,
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| 67 | groups and directories that <application>Sendmail</application> requires
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| 68 | with the following commands:</para>
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[0931098] | 69 |
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| 70 | <screen><userinput><command>groupadd smmsp &&
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| 71 | groupadd mail &&
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[80ff2bf1] | 72 | useradd -c "Sendmail Daemon" -g smmsp -G mail smmsp &&
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[0931098] | 73 | chmod 1777 /var/mail &&
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| 74 | mkdir /var/spool/mqueue</command></userinput></screen>
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| 75 |
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[65e6ea9] | 76 | <para>Install <application>Sendmail</application> with the following
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| 77 | commands:</para>
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[0931098] | 78 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 79 | <screen><userinput><command>cat > devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"</command>
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[0931098] | 80 | define(`confMANGRP',`root')
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| 81 | define(`confMANOWN',`root')
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| 82 | define(`confSBINGRP',`root')
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| 83 | define(`confUBINGRP',`root')
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| 84 | define(`confUBINOWN',`root')
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[80ff2bf1] | 85 | <command>EOF
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[0931098] | 86 | cd sendmail &&
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| 87 | sh Build &&
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| 88 | cd ../cf/cf &&
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| 89 | cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc &&
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| 90 | mkdir /etc/mail &&
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[65e6ea9] | 91 | sh Build sendmail.cf &&
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[0931098] | 92 | sh Build install-cf &&
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| 93 | cd ../../ &&
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[b40beacc] | 94 | sh Build install &&
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[80ff2bf1] | 95 | cp -R cf/* /etc/mail &&
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| 96 | cp cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail &&
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[b40beacc] | 97 | for manpage in sendmail editmap mailstats makemap praliases smrsh
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| 98 | do
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[80ff2bf1] | 99 | install -m444 $manpage/$manpage.8 /usr/share/man/man8
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[b40beacc] | 100 | done &&
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[80ff2bf1] | 101 | install -m444 sendmail/aliases.5 /usr/share/man/man5 &&
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| 102 | install -m444 sendmail/mailq.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
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| 103 | install -m444 sendmail/newaliases.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
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| 104 | install -m444 vacation/vacation.1 /usr/share/man/man1</command></userinput></screen>
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[0931098] | 105 |
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[12d871a] | 106 | <para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> See the source tree
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| 107 | <filename>sendmail/README</filename> file for information on linking optional
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| 108 | packages into the build.</para>
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| 109 |
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[65e6ea9] | 110 | <para>Install the <application>Sendmail</application> Installation and
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| 111 | Operations Guide with the following commands:</para>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <screen><userinput><command>cd doc/op &&
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| 114 | sed -i -e 's/groff/GROFF_NO_SGR=1 groff/' Makefile &&
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| 115 | make op.txt op.pdf &&
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[80ff2bf1] | 116 | install -d -m 755 /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &&
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| 117 | install -m 644 op.ps op.txt op.pdf /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &&
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[65e6ea9] | 118 | cd ../../</command></userinput></screen>
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| 119 |
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[b40beacc] | 120 | <para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> remove <filename>op.pdf</filename> from the
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| 121 | <command>make</command> and <command>install</command> commands if you don't
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| 122 | have <application>Ghostscript</application> installed.</para>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | </sect2>
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| 125 |
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| 126 | <sect2>
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| 127 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <para><command>cat > devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"</command>:
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| 130 | This creates a configuration file changing some of the default settings.</para>
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| 131 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 132 | <para><command>sh Build; sh Build sendmail.cf; sh Build install-cf;
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| 133 | sh Build install</command>: <application>Sendmail</application> uses an
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| 134 | <application>m4</application> based build script to create the various
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| 135 | <filename>Makefile</filename>'s. These commands build and install the
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| 136 | package.</para>
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[b40beacc] | 137 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 138 | <para><command>for manpage in...;do...;done; install ...</command>: The man
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| 139 | pages are installed already formatted and <command>man</command> displays them
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| 140 | somewhat garbled. These commands replace the formatted pages with
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[b40beacc] | 141 | pages <command>man</command> can display properly.</para>
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| 142 |
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[0931098] | 143 | </sect2>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | <sect2>
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| 146 | <title>Configuring <application>Sendmail</application></title>
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| 147 |
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[40851cf] | 148 | <sect3 id="sendmail-config"><title>Config files</title>
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| 149 | <para><filename>/etc/mail/*</filename></para>
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| 150 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package sendmail-config">
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[0cd6d67] | 151 | <primary sortas="e-etc-mail-sendmail">/etc/mail/*</primary></indexterm>
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[0931098] | 152 | </sect3>
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| 153 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 154 | <sect3><title>Configuration information</title>
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| 155 |
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| 156 | <para>Create the <filename>/etc/mail/local-host-names</filename> and
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| 157 | <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename> files using the following
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| 158 | commands:</para>
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[0931098] | 159 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 160 | <screen><userinput><command>echo $(hostname) > /etc/mail/local-host-names
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| 161 | cat > /etc/mail/aliases << "EOF"</command>
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[0931098] | 162 | postmaster: root
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| 163 | MAILER-DAEMON: root
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[80ff2bf1] | 164 |
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| 165 | <command>EOF
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[0931098] | 166 | newaliases -v</command></userinput></screen>
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| 167 |
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[12d871a] | 168 | <para><application>Sendmail</application>'s primary configuration file,
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| 169 | <filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</filename>, is complex and not meant to be
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| 170 | directly edited. The recommended method to make changes is to modify
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| 171 | <filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.mc</filename>, and various
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| 172 | <application>m4</application> files, then run the <command>m4</command>
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| 173 | macro processor from within <filename class='directory'>/etc/mail</filename>
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| 174 | as follows:</para>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <screen><userinput><command>m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf</command></userinput></screen>
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| 177 |
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| 178 | <para>A full explanation of the files to modify, and the available parameters
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| 179 | can be found in <filename>/etc/mail/README</filename>.</para>
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| 180 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 181 | <para id="sendmail-init">To automate the running of
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| 182 | <application>Sendmail</application> at startup, install the
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| 183 | <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</filename> init script included in the
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[65e6ea9] | 184 | <xref linkend="intro-important-bootscripts"/> package.</para>
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[80ff2bf1] | 185 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package sendmail-init">
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| 186 | <primary sortas="f-sendmail-init">sendmail</primary></indexterm>
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[12d871a] | 187 |
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[0931098] | 188 | <screen><userinput><command>make install-sendmail</command></userinput></screen>
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| 189 |
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[65e6ea9] | 190 | <note><para>The -qNm option to <command>sendmail</command>, where N is number
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[12d871a] | 191 | of minutes, controls how often <application>Sendmail</application> will process
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| 192 | the mail queue. A default of 5 minutes is used in the init script. Individual
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| 193 | workstation users may want to set this as low as 1 minute, large installations
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| 194 | handling more mail may want to set it higher.</para></note>
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[0931098] | 195 |
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| 196 | </sect3>
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| 197 | </sect2>
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| 198 |
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| 199 | <sect2>
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| 200 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 201 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 202 | <segmentedlist>
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| 203 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 204 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 205 | <seglistitem>
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| 206 | <seg>editmap, hoststat, mailstats, mailq, makemap, newaliases, praliases,
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| 207 | purgestat, sendmail, smrsh and vacation</seg>
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| 208 | <seg>/etc/mail and /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;</seg>
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| 209 | </seglistitem>
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| 210 | </segmentedlist>
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| 211 |
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| 212 | <variablelist>
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| 213 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 214 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <varlistentry id="editmap">
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| 217 | <term><command>editmap</command></term>
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| 218 | <listitem><para>queries and edits <application>Sendmail</application> map
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| 219 | files.</para>
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| 220 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package editmap">
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| 221 | <primary sortas="b-editmap">editmap</primary></indexterm>
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| 222 | </listitem>
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| 223 | </varlistentry>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <varlistentry id="hoststat">
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| 226 | <term><command>hoststat</command></term>
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| 227 | <listitem><para>prints <application>Sendmail</application>'s persistent host
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| 228 | status.</para>
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| 229 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package hoststat">
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| 230 | <primary sortas="b-hoststat">hoststat</primary></indexterm>
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| 231 | </listitem>
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| 232 | </varlistentry>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <varlistentry id="mailstats">
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| 235 | <term><command>mailstats</command></term>
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| 236 | <listitem><para>displays <application>Sendmail</application> statistics.</para>
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| 237 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package mailstats">
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| 238 | <primary sortas="b-mailstats">mailstats</primary></indexterm>
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| 239 | </listitem>
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| 240 | </varlistentry>
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| 241 |
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| 242 | <varlistentry id="mailq">
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| 243 | <term><command>mailq</command></term>
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| 244 | <listitem><para>prints a summary of outbound mail messages waiting for
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| 245 | delivery.</para>
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| 246 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package mailq">
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| 247 | <primary sortas="b-mailq">mailq</primary></indexterm>
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| 248 | </listitem>
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| 249 | </varlistentry>
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| 250 |
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| 251 | <varlistentry id="makemap">
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| 252 | <term><command>makemap</command></term>
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| 253 | <listitem><para>creates <application>Sendmail</application> map files.</para>
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| 254 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package makemap">
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| 255 | <primary sortas="b-makemap">makemap</primary></indexterm>
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| 256 | </listitem>
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| 257 | </varlistentry>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | <varlistentry id="newaliases">
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| 260 | <term><command>newaliases</command></term>
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| 261 | <listitem><para>rebuilds <filename>/etc/mail/aliases.db</filename> from the
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| 262 | contents of <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename>.</para>
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| 263 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package newaliases">
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| 264 | <primary sortas="b-newaliases">newaliases</primary></indexterm>
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| 265 | </listitem>
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| 266 | </varlistentry>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <varlistentry id="praliases">
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| 269 | <term><command>praliases</command></term>
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| 270 | <listitem><para>displays current <application>Sendmail</application>
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| 271 | aliases.</para>
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| 272 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package praliases">
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| 273 | <primary sortas="b-praliases">praliases</primary></indexterm>
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| 274 | </listitem>
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| 275 | </varlistentry>
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| 276 |
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| 277 | <varlistentry id="purgestat">
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| 278 | <term><command>purgestat</command></term>
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| 279 | <listitem><para> causes <application>Sendmail</application> to clear (purge)
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| 280 | all its host-status information.</para>
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| 281 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package purgestat">
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| 282 | <primary sortas="b-purgestat">purgestat</primary></indexterm>
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| 283 | </listitem>
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| 284 | </varlistentry>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | <varlistentry id="sendmail">
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| 287 | <term><command>sendmail</command></term>
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| 288 | <listitem><para>is the <application>Sendmail</application> mail transport
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| 289 | agent.</para>
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| 290 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package sendmail">
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| 291 | <primary sortas="b-sendmail">sendmail</primary></indexterm>
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| 292 | </listitem>
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| 293 | </varlistentry>
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| 294 |
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| 295 | <varlistentry id="smrsh">
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| 296 | <term><command>smrsh</command></term>
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| 297 | <listitem><para>is a restricted shell for
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| 298 | <application>Sendmail</application>.</para>
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| 299 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package smrsh">
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| 300 | <primary sortas="b-smrsh">smrsh</primary></indexterm>
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| 301 | </listitem>
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| 302 | </varlistentry>
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| 303 |
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| 304 | <varlistentry id="vacation">
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| 305 | <term><command>vacation</command></term>
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| 306 | <listitem><para>is an email auto responder.</para>
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| 307 | <indexterm zone="sendmail-package vacation">
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| 308 | <primary sortas="b-vacation">vacation</primary></indexterm>
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| 309 | </listitem>
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| 310 | </varlistentry>
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| 311 | </variablelist>
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[0931098] | 312 |
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| 313 | </sect2>
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[f45b1953] | 314 |
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| 315 | </sect1>
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