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Part VI xml update + bz815

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     1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
     2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
     3   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
     4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
     5  %general-entities;
     6
     7<!ENTITY sendmail-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz">
     8<!ENTITY sendmail-download-http "http://www.sendmail.org/ftp/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz">
     9<!ENTITY sendmail-size "1.8 MB">
     10<!ENTITY sendmail-buildsize "13 MB">
     11<!ENTITY sendmail-time "0.43 SBU">
     12
     13]>
     14
    115<sect1 id="sendmail" xreflabel="Sendmail-&sendmail-version;">
    216<?dbhtml filename="sendmail.html"?>
    317<title>Sendmail-&sendmail-version;</title>
    418
    5 &sendmail-intro;
    6 &sendmail-inst;
    7 &sendmail-config;
    8 &sendmail-desc;
     19<sect2>
     20<title>Introduction to <application>Sendmail</application></title>
     21
     22<para>The <application>Sendmail</application> package contains a Mail Transport Agent
     23(<acronym>MTA</acronym>).</para>
     24
     25<sect3><title>Package information</title>
     26<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
     27<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&sendmail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
     28<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&sendmail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
     29<listitem><para>Download size: &sendmail-size;</para></listitem>
     30<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &sendmail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
     31<listitem><para>Estimated build time: &sendmail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
     32</sect3>
     33
     34<sect3><title><application>Sendmail</application> dependencies</title>
     35<sect4><title>Required</title>
     36<para><xref linkend="db"/> and <xref linkend="procmail"/>
     37</para></sect4>
     38</sect3>
     39
     40</sect2>
     41
     42<sect2>
     43<title>Installation of <application>Sendmail</application></title>
     44
     45<para>Before building <application>Sendmail</application>, we need to create users, groups and
     46directories that sendmail uses with the following commands:</para>
     47
     48<screen><userinput><command>groupadd smmsp &amp;&amp;
     49groupadd mail &amp;&amp;
     50useradd -g smmsp -G mail smmsp &amp;&amp;
     51chmod 1777 /tmp &amp;&amp;
     52chmod 1777 /var/mail &amp;&amp;
     53mkdir /var/spool/mqueue</command></userinput></screen>
     54
     55<para>Install <application>Sendmail</application> with the following commands:</para>
     56
     57<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt; devtools/Site/site.config.m4 &lt;&lt; "EOF"
     58define(`confMANGRP',`root')
     59define(`confMANOWN',`root')
     60define(`confSBINGRP',`root')
     61define(`confUBINGRP',`root')
     62define(`confUBINOWN',`root')
     63EOF
     64cd sendmail &amp;&amp;
     65sh Build &amp;&amp;
     66cd ../cf/cf &amp;&amp;
     67cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc &amp;&amp;
     68mkdir /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
     69sh Build sendmail.mc &amp;&amp;
     70sh Build install-cf &amp;&amp;
     71cd ../../ &amp;&amp;
     72sh Build install</command></userinput></screen>
     73
     74</sect2>
     75
     76<sect2>
     77<title>Configuring <application>Sendmail</application></title>
     78
     79<sect3><title>Config files</title>
     80<para><filename>/etc/mail/*</filename></para>
     81</sect3>
     82
     83<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
     84
     85<screen><userinput><command>echo `hostname` > /etc/mail/local-host-names
     86cat &gt; /etc/mail/aliases &lt;&lt; "EOF"
     87postmaster: root
     88MAILER-DAEMON: root
     89EOF
     90cp -R cf/* /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
     91cp cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
     92newaliases -v</command></userinput></screen>
     93
     94<para>To automate the running of Sendmail at startup, install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</filename>
     95init script included in the <xref linkend="intro-important-bootscripts"/> package.</para>
     96                                                                                                               
     97<screen><userinput><command>make install-sendmail</command></userinput></screen>
     98
     99<note><para>The -qNm option to <command>sendmail</command>, where N is number of minutes, controls
     100how often Sendmail will process the mail queue. A default of 5
     101minutes is used in the init script. Individual workstation users may want to set
     102this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail may
     103want to set it higher.</para></note>
     104
     105</sect3>
     106</sect2>
     107
     108<sect2>
     109<title>Contents</title>
     110
     111<para>The <application>Sendmail</application> package contains
     112<command>mail.local</command>,
     113<command>rmail</command>,
     114<command>smrsh</command>,
     115<command>editmap</command>,
     116<command>makemap</command>,
     117<command>mailq</command>,
     118<command>newaliases</command>,
     119<command>sendmail</command>,
     120<command>vacation</command>,
     121<command>praliases</command> and
     122<command>mailstats</command>.
     123</para>
     124</sect2>
     125
     126<sect2><title>Description</title>
     127
     128<sect3><title>mail.local</title>
     129<para><command>mail.local</command> appends its standard input to a user's mail
     130file.</para></sect3>
     131
     132<sect3><title>rmail</title>
     133<para><command>rmail</command> interprets incoming mail received via
     134<acronym>UUCP</acronym>.</para></sect3>
     135
     136<sect3><title>smrsh</title>
     137<para><command>smrsh</command> is a restricted shell for Sendmail.</para></sect3>
     138
     139<sect3><title>editmap</title>
     140<para><command>editmap</command> queries and edits Sendmail map files.</para></sect3>
     141
     142<sect3><title>makemap</title>
     143<para><command>makemap</command> creates Sendmail map files.</para></sect3>
     144
     145<sect3><title>mailq</title>
     146<para><command>mailq</command> prints a summary of waiting mail messages.</para></sect3>
     147
     148<sect3><title>newaliases</title>
     149<para><command>newaliases</command> rebuilds <filename>/etc/mail/aliases.db</filename>.
     150</para></sect3>
     151
     152<sect3><title>sendmail</title>
     153<para><command>sendmail</command> is the Sendmail mail transport agent.</para></sect3>
     154
     155<sect3><title>vacation</title>
     156<para><command>vacation</command> is an email auto responder.</para></sect3>
     157
     158<sect3><title>praliases</title>
     159<para><command>praliases</command> displays current Sendmail aliases.</para></sect3>
     160
     161<sect3><title>mailstats</title>
     162<para><command>mailstats</command> displays Sendmail statistics.</para></sect3>
     163
     164</sect2>
    9165
    10166</sect1>
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