[0931098] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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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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[793c1ba] | 9 | <!ENTITY sendmail-md5sum "2809fbf9c8b067947b650d0128928d05">
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[80ff2bf1] | 10 | <!ENTITY sendmail-size "1.9 MB">
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[22073e81] | 11 | <!ENTITY sendmail-buildsize "18.8 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY sendmail-time "0.38 SBU">
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[0931098] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[cef3a2f] | 15 | <sect1 id="sendmail" xreflabel="Sendmail-&sendmail-version;">
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[051a187] | 16 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 17 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 18 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[051a187] | 19 | </sect1info>
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[00bb024c] | 20 | <?dbhtml filename="sendmail.html"?>
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[547df0bc] | 21 | <title>Sendmail-&sendmail-version;</title>
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[cef3a2f] | 22 | <indexterm zone="sendmail">
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[6a2bce2] | 23 | <primary sortas="a-Sendmail">Sendmail</primary></indexterm>
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[f45b1953] | 24 |
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[0931098] | 25 | <sect2>
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| 26 | <title>Introduction to <application>Sendmail</application></title>
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| 27 |
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[65e6ea9] | 28 | <para>The <application>Sendmail</application> package contains a Mail
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| 29 | Transport Agent (<acronym>MTA</acronym>).</para>
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[0931098] | 30 |
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| 31 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 32 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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[80ff2bf1] | 33 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP):
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| 34 | <ulink url="&sendmail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 35 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP):
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| 36 | <ulink url="&sendmail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[793c1ba] | 37 | <listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &sendmail-md5sum;</para></listitem>
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[0931098] | 38 | <listitem><para>Download size: &sendmail-size;</para></listitem>
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[80ff2bf1] | 39 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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| 40 | &sendmail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 41 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 42 | &sendmail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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[0931098] | 43 | </sect3>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <sect3><title><application>Sendmail</application> dependencies</title>
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[65e6ea9] | 46 |
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[0931098] | 47 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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[793c1ba] | 48 | <para><xref linkend="db"/> and <xref linkend="procmail"/></para>
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| 49 | </sect4>
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[65e6ea9] | 50 |
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| 51 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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[cef3a2f] | 52 | <para><xref linkend="openssl"/>,
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[80ff2bf1] | 53 | <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
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| 54 | <xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/>,
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| 55 | <xref linkend="pcre"/>,
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[957e607d] | 56 | <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
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[051a187] | 57 | <ulink url="http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/nph/">nph</ulink>, and
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| 58 | <xref linkend="gs"/> or <xref linkend="espgs"/> (for creating
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[793c1ba] | 59 | <acronym>PDF</acronym> documentation)</para>
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| 60 | </sect4>
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[0931098] | 61 | </sect3>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | </sect2>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <sect2>
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| 66 | <title>Installation of <application>Sendmail</application></title>
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| 67 |
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[65e6ea9] | 68 | <para>Before building <application>Sendmail</application>, create the users,
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| 69 | groups and directories that <application>Sendmail</application> requires
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[d8614521] | 70 | with the following commands issued as the root user:</para>
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[0931098] | 71 |
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[d8614521] | 72 | <screen><userinput role='root'><command>groupadd smmsp &&
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[0931098] | 73 | groupadd mail &&
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[80ff2bf1] | 74 | useradd -c "Sendmail Daemon" -g smmsp -G mail smmsp &&
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[0931098] | 75 | chmod 1777 /var/mail &&
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| 76 | mkdir /var/spool/mqueue</command></userinput></screen>
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| 77 |
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[65e6ea9] | 78 | <para>Install <application>Sendmail</application> with the following
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| 79 | commands:</para>
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[0931098] | 80 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 81 | <screen><userinput><command>cat > devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"</command>
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[0931098] | 82 | define(`confMANGRP',`root')
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| 83 | define(`confMANOWN',`root')
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| 84 | define(`confSBINGRP',`root')
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| 85 | define(`confUBINGRP',`root')
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| 86 | define(`confUBINOWN',`root')
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[80ff2bf1] | 87 | <command>EOF
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[0931098] | 88 | cd sendmail &&
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| 89 | sh Build &&
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| 90 | cd ../cf/cf &&
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| 91 | cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc &&
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[d8614521] | 92 | sh Build sendmail.cf</command></userinput></screen>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <para>Now, as the root user:</para>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <screen><userinput role='root'><command>install -v -d -m755 /etc/mail &&
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[0931098] | 97 | sh Build install-cf &&
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| 98 | cd ../../ &&
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[b40beacc] | 99 | sh Build install &&
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[d8614521] | 100 | cp -v -R cf/* /etc/mail &&
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| 101 | cp -v cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail &&
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[b40beacc] | 102 | for manpage in sendmail editmap mailstats makemap praliases smrsh
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| 103 | do
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[d8614521] | 104 | install -v -m444 $manpage/$manpage.8 /usr/share/man/man8
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[b40beacc] | 105 | done &&
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[d8614521] | 106 | install -v -m444 sendmail/aliases.5 /usr/share/man/man5 &&
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| 107 | install -v -m444 sendmail/mailq.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
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| 108 | install -v -m444 sendmail/newaliases.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
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| 109 | install -v -m444 vacation/vacation.1 /usr/share/man/man1</command></userinput></screen>
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[0931098] | 110 |
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[12d871a] | 111 | <para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> See the source tree
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| 112 | <filename>sendmail/README</filename> file for information on linking optional
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[22073e81] | 113 | packages into the build. Use the example below, which adds support for
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| 114 | <application>tcpwrappers</application>, <acronym>SASL</acronym> and
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[793c1ba] | 115 | Start<acronym>TLS</acronym>, as a starting point. Of course, modify it to suit
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[22073e81] | 116 | your particular needs.</para>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <screen><userinput><command>cat >> devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"</command>
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| 119 | APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF',`-DSTARTTLS -DTCPWRAPPERS -DSASL')
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| 120 | APPENDDEF(`confLIBS', `-lssl -lcrypto -lwrap -lsasl2')
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| 121 | APPENDDEF(`confINCDIRS', `-I/usr/include/sasl')
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| 122 | <command>EOF</command></userinput></screen>
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[12d871a] | 123 |
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[65e6ea9] | 124 | <para>Install the <application>Sendmail</application> Installation and
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| 125 | Operations Guide with the following commands:</para>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <screen><userinput><command>cd doc/op &&
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| 128 | sed -i -e 's/groff/GROFF_NO_SGR=1 groff/' Makefile &&
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[d8614521] | 129 | make op.txt op.pdf</command></userinput></screen>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | <para>Now, as the root user:</para>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <screen><userinput role='root'><command>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &&
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| 134 | install -v -m644 op.ps op.txt op.pdf \
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| 135 | /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &&
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[65e6ea9] | 136 | cd ../../</command></userinput></screen>
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| 137 |
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[b40beacc] | 138 | <para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> remove <filename>op.pdf</filename> from the
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| 139 | <command>make</command> and <command>install</command> commands if you don't
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| 140 | have <application>Ghostscript</application> installed.</para>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | </sect2>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | <sect2>
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| 145 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 146 |
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| 147 | <para><command>cat > devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"</command>:
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| 148 | This creates a configuration file changing some of the default settings.</para>
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| 149 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 150 | <para><command>sh Build; sh Build sendmail.cf; sh Build install-cf;
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| 151 | sh Build install</command>: <application>Sendmail</application> uses an
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| 152 | <application>m4</application> based build script to create the various
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| 153 | <filename>Makefile</filename>'s. These commands build and install the
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| 154 | package.</para>
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[b40beacc] | 155 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 156 | <para><command>for manpage in...;do...;done; install ...</command>: The man
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| 157 | pages are installed already formatted and <command>man</command> displays them
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| 158 | somewhat garbled. These commands replace the formatted pages with
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[b40beacc] | 159 | pages <command>man</command> can display properly.</para>
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| 160 |
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[0931098] | 161 | </sect2>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | <sect2>
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| 164 | <title>Configuring <application>Sendmail</application></title>
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| 165 |
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[40851cf] | 166 | <sect3 id="sendmail-config"><title>Config files</title>
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| 167 | <para><filename>/etc/mail/*</filename></para>
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[cef3a2f] | 168 | <indexterm zone="sendmail sendmail-config">
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[915eda5] | 169 | <primary sortas="e-etc-mail">/etc/mail/*</primary></indexterm>
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[0931098] | 170 | </sect3>
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| 171 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 172 | <sect3><title>Configuration information</title>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <para>Create the <filename>/etc/mail/local-host-names</filename> and
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| 175 | <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename> files using the following
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[d8614521] | 176 | commands as the root user:</para>
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[0931098] | 177 |
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[d8614521] | 178 | <screen><userinput role='root'><command>echo $(hostname) > /etc/mail/local-host-names
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[80ff2bf1] | 179 | cat > /etc/mail/aliases << "EOF"</command>
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[0931098] | 180 | postmaster: root
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| 181 | MAILER-DAEMON: root
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[80ff2bf1] | 182 |
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| 183 | <command>EOF
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[0931098] | 184 | newaliases -v</command></userinput></screen>
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| 185 |
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[12d871a] | 186 | <para><application>Sendmail</application>'s primary configuration file,
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| 187 | <filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</filename>, is complex and not meant to be
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| 188 | directly edited. The recommended method to make changes is to modify
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| 189 | <filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.mc</filename>, and various
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| 190 | <application>m4</application> files, then run the <command>m4</command>
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| 191 | macro processor from within <filename class='directory'>/etc/mail</filename>
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| 192 | as follows:</para>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | <screen><userinput><command>m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf</command></userinput></screen>
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| 195 |
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| 196 | <para>A full explanation of the files to modify, and the available parameters
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| 197 | can be found in <filename>/etc/mail/README</filename>.</para>
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| 198 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 199 | <para id="sendmail-init">To automate the running of
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| 200 | <application>Sendmail</application> at startup, install the
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| 201 | <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</filename> init script included in the
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[65e6ea9] | 202 | <xref linkend="intro-important-bootscripts"/> package.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 203 | <indexterm zone="sendmail sendmail-init">
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[80ff2bf1] | 204 | <primary sortas="f-sendmail-init">sendmail</primary></indexterm>
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[12d871a] | 205 |
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[d8614521] | 206 | <screen><userinput role='root'><command>make install-sendmail</command></userinput></screen>
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[0931098] | 207 |
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[65e6ea9] | 208 | <note><para>The -qNm option to <command>sendmail</command>, where N is number
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[12d871a] | 209 | of minutes, controls how often <application>Sendmail</application> will process
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| 210 | the mail queue. A default of 5 minutes is used in the init script. Individual
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| 211 | workstation users may want to set this as low as 1 minute, large installations
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| 212 | handling more mail may want to set it higher.</para></note>
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[0931098] | 213 |
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| 214 | </sect3>
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| 215 | </sect2>
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| 216 |
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| 217 | <sect2>
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| 218 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 219 |
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[80ff2bf1] | 220 | <segmentedlist>
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| 221 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[d8614521] | 222 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 223 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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[80ff2bf1] | 224 | <seglistitem>
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| 225 | <seg>editmap, hoststat, mailstats, mailq, makemap, newaliases, praliases,
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| 226 | purgestat, sendmail, smrsh and vacation</seg>
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[d8614521] | 227 | <seg>None</seg>
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[80ff2bf1] | 228 | <seg>/etc/mail and /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;</seg>
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| 229 | </seglistitem>
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| 230 | </segmentedlist>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <variablelist>
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| 233 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 234 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <varlistentry id="editmap">
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| 237 | <term><command>editmap</command></term>
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| 238 | <listitem><para>queries and edits <application>Sendmail</application> map
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| 239 | files.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 240 | <indexterm zone="sendmail editmap">
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[80ff2bf1] | 241 | <primary sortas="b-editmap">editmap</primary></indexterm>
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| 242 | </listitem>
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| 243 | </varlistentry>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <varlistentry id="hoststat">
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| 246 | <term><command>hoststat</command></term>
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| 247 | <listitem><para>prints <application>Sendmail</application>'s persistent host
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| 248 | status.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 249 | <indexterm zone="sendmail hoststat">
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[80ff2bf1] | 250 | <primary sortas="b-hoststat">hoststat</primary></indexterm>
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| 251 | </listitem>
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| 252 | </varlistentry>
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| 253 |
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| 254 | <varlistentry id="mailstats">
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| 255 | <term><command>mailstats</command></term>
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| 256 | <listitem><para>displays <application>Sendmail</application> statistics.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 257 | <indexterm zone="sendmail mailstats">
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[80ff2bf1] | 258 | <primary sortas="b-mailstats">mailstats</primary></indexterm>
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| 259 | </listitem>
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| 260 | </varlistentry>
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| 261 |
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[6a2bce2] | 262 | <varlistentry id="mailq-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 263 | <term><command>mailq</command></term>
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| 264 | <listitem><para>prints a summary of outbound mail messages waiting for
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| 265 | delivery.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 266 | <indexterm zone="sendmail mailq-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 267 | <primary sortas="b-mailq">mailq</primary></indexterm>
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| 268 | </listitem>
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| 269 | </varlistentry>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <varlistentry id="makemap">
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| 272 | <term><command>makemap</command></term>
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| 273 | <listitem><para>creates <application>Sendmail</application> map files.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 274 | <indexterm zone="sendmail makemap">
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[80ff2bf1] | 275 | <primary sortas="b-makemap">makemap</primary></indexterm>
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| 276 | </listitem>
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| 277 | </varlistentry>
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| 278 |
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[6a2bce2] | 279 | <varlistentry id="newaliases-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 280 | <term><command>newaliases</command></term>
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| 281 | <listitem><para>rebuilds <filename>/etc/mail/aliases.db</filename> from the
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| 282 | contents of <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename>.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 283 | <indexterm zone="sendmail newaliases-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 284 | <primary sortas="b-newaliases">newaliases</primary></indexterm>
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| 285 | </listitem>
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| 286 | </varlistentry>
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| 287 |
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| 288 | <varlistentry id="praliases">
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| 289 | <term><command>praliases</command></term>
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| 290 | <listitem><para>displays current <application>Sendmail</application>
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| 291 | aliases.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 292 | <indexterm zone="sendmail praliases">
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[80ff2bf1] | 293 | <primary sortas="b-praliases">praliases</primary></indexterm>
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| 294 | </listitem>
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| 295 | </varlistentry>
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| 296 |
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| 297 | <varlistentry id="purgestat">
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| 298 | <term><command>purgestat</command></term>
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| 299 | <listitem><para> causes <application>Sendmail</application> to clear (purge)
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| 300 | all its host-status information.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 301 | <indexterm zone="sendmail purgestat">
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[80ff2bf1] | 302 | <primary sortas="b-purgestat">purgestat</primary></indexterm>
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| 303 | </listitem>
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| 304 | </varlistentry>
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| 305 |
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[cef3a2f] | 306 | <varlistentry id="sendmail-prog-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 307 | <term><command>sendmail</command></term>
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| 308 | <listitem><para>is the <application>Sendmail</application> mail transport
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| 309 | agent.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 310 | <indexterm zone="sendmail sendmail-prog-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 311 | <primary sortas="b-sendmail">sendmail</primary></indexterm>
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| 312 | </listitem>
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| 313 | </varlistentry>
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| 314 |
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| 315 | <varlistentry id="smrsh">
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| 316 | <term><command>smrsh</command></term>
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| 317 | <listitem><para>is a restricted shell for
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| 318 | <application>Sendmail</application>.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 319 | <indexterm zone="sendmail smrsh">
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[80ff2bf1] | 320 | <primary sortas="b-smrsh">smrsh</primary></indexterm>
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| 321 | </listitem>
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| 322 | </varlistentry>
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| 323 |
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[6a2bce2] | 324 | <varlistentry id="vacation-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 325 | <term><command>vacation</command></term>
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| 326 | <listitem><para>is an email auto responder.</para>
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[cef3a2f] | 327 | <indexterm zone="sendmail vacation-sendmail">
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[80ff2bf1] | 328 | <primary sortas="b-vacation">vacation</primary></indexterm>
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| 329 | </listitem>
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| 330 | </varlistentry>
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| 331 | </variablelist>
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[0931098] | 332 |
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| 333 | </sect2>
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[f45b1953] | 334 |
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| 335 | </sect1>
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