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| 2 | <title>Configuring sendmail</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <sect3><title>Config files</title>
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| 5 | <para><userinput>/etc/mail/aliases.db, /etc/mail/sendmail.cf,
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| 6 | /etc/mail/submit.cf</userinput> and
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| 7 | <userinput>/etc/mail/local-host-names</userinput></para>
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| 8 | </sect3>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <sect3><title>Configuring sendmail</title>
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| 11 | <para><screen><userinput>
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| 12 | echo `hostname` > /etc/mail/local-host-names
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| 13 | cat > /etc/mail/aliases << "EOF"
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| 14 | postmaster: root
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| 15 | MAILER-DAEMON: root
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| 16 | EOF
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| 17 | cd /etc/mail &&
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| 18 | cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/* . &&
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| 19 | cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/submit.mc . &&
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| 20 | cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/sendmail.mc . &&
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| 21 | newaliases -v &&
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| 22 | </userinput></screen></para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para>To start and stop sendmail on system boot/shutdown create the
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| 25 | sendmail boot script with the following commands: </para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <note><para>The -qNm option, where N is number of minutes, controls
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| 28 | how often Sendmail will process the mail queue. A default of 5
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| 29 | minutes is used here. Individual workstation users may want to set
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| 30 | this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail will
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| 31 | want to set it higher.</para></note>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para><screen><userinput>cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail << "EOF"</userinput>
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| 34 | #!/bin/sh
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| 35 | # Begin $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
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| 36 |
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| 37 | # Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
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| 38 | # Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
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| 39 |
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| 40 | source /etc/sysconfig/rc
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| 41 | source $rc_functions
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| 42 |
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| 43 | case "$1" in
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| 44 |
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| 45 | start)
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| 46 | echo "Starting sendmail..."
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| 47 | loadproc /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q5m start
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| 48 | ;;
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| 49 |
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| 50 | stop)
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| 51 | echo "Stopping Sendmail..."
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| 52 | killproc sendmail
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| 53 | ;;
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| 54 |
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| 55 | status)
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| 56 | statusproc sendmail
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| 57 | ;;
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| 58 |
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| 59 | restart)
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| 60 | $0 stop
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| 61 | sleep 1
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| 62 | $0 start
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| 63 | ;;
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| 64 |
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| 65 | *)
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| 66 | echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
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| 67 | exit 1
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| 68 | ;;
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| 69 | esac
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| 70 |
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| 71 | # End $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
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| 72 | <userinput>EOF
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| 73 | chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</userinput></screen></para>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <para>Create the run level symlinks with the following commands:
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <screen><userinput>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &&
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| 78 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc0.d/K25sendmail &&
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| 79 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc1.d/K25sendmail &&
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| 80 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc2.d/K25sendmail &&
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| 81 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc3.d/S35sendmail &&
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| 82 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc4.d/S35sendmail &&
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| 83 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc5.d/S35sendmail &&
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| 84 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc6.d/K25sendmail</userinput></screen></para>
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| 85 | </sect3>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | </sect2>
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