Changeset 12d871a


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Timestamp:
07/23/2004 03:51:03 AM (20 years ago)
Author:
Randy McMurchy <randy@…>
Branches:
10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal
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Message:

Updated to Nail-10.8 and added an optional dependency and additional configuration instructions to Sendmail

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@2490 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

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  • basicnet/mailnews/nail.xml

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    77  <!ENTITY nail-download-http "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nail/nail-&nail-version;.tar.bz2">
    88  <!ENTITY nail-download-ftp  " ">
    9   <!ENTITY nail-size          "152 KB">
    10   <!ENTITY nail-buildsize     "3.8 MB">
     9  <!ENTITY nail-size          "140 KB">
     10  <!ENTITY nail-buildsize     "1.6 MB">
    1111  <!ENTITY nail-time          "0.10 SBU">
    1212]>
     
    2020
    2121<para>The <application>Nail</application> package contains a
    22 command-line Mail User Agent that is compatible with the <command>mail
    23 </command> command available in commercial Unix versions. The <command>
    24 mail</command> command is useful for writing scripts.</para>
     22command-line Mail User Agent that is compatible with the
     23<command>mail</command> command available in commercial Unix versions. The
     24<command>mail</command> command is useful for writing scripts.</para>
    2525
    2626<sect3><title>Package information</title>
     
    4848<title>Installation of <application>Nail</application></title>
    4949
    50 <para>Install <application>Nail</application> by running the following commands.
    51 (Note: If you would like Nail to be linked against <application>OpenSSL</application>,
    52 add <parameter>--with-openssl</parameter> to the configure
    53 command mentioned below.)</para>
     50<para>Install <application>Nail</application> by running the following
     51commands.</para>
    5452
    55 <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
    56 make &amp;&amp;
    57 make install &amp;&amp;
     53<screen><userinput><command>make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail &amp;&amp;
     54make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install &amp;&amp;
    5855ln -sf nail /usr/bin/mail</command></userinput></screen>
     56
     57</sect2>
     58
     59<sect2>
     60<title>Command explanations</title>
     61
     62<para><command>make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail</command>: This changes the
     63default <acronym>MTA</acronym> path of <command>/usr/lib/sendmail</command>.
     64</para>
     65
     66<para><command>make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install</command>:
     67This changes the default installation path of
     68<filename class='directory'>/usr/local</filename> and the default
     69<command>install</command> command path of
     70<filename class='directory'>/usr/ucb</filename>.</para>
    5971
    6072</sect2>
     
    6476
    6577<sect3><title>Config files</title>
    66 <para><filename>/etc/nail.rc</filename></para>
     78<para><filename>/etc/nail.rc</filename>, <filename>~/.mailrc</filename> and
     79<filename>~/.nailrc</filename></para>
    6780</sect3>
    6881
  • general.ent

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    1 <!ENTITY day          "22">
     1<!ENTITY day          "23">
    22<!ENTITY month        "07">
    33<!ENTITY year         "2004">
    44<!ENTITY version      "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
    5 <!ENTITY releasedate  "July &day;nd, &year;">
     5<!ENTITY releasedate  "July &day;rd, &year;">
    66<!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
    77<!ENTITY blfs-version "cvs">                  <!-- cvs|[release #] -->
    88<!ENTITY lfs-version  "testing">              <!-- stable|testing|unstable] -->
    9 <!ENTITY last-commit  "Tues Jul 21 21:59:00 MDT 2004"> <!-- Need to set up auto update for this -->
     9<!ENTITY last-commit  "Fri Jul 23 00:00:01 MDT 2004"> <!-- Need to set up auto update for this -->
    1010
    1111<!ENTITY maintainer-fullname  "Bruce Dubbs">
     
    179179                                 
    180180<!-- Chapter 20 -->               
    181 <!ENTITY nail-version                 "10.7">
     181<!ENTITY nail-version                 "10.8">
    182182<!ENTITY procmail-version             "3.22"> 
    183183<!ENTITY fetchmail-version            "6.2.5"> 
  • introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

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    1919<itemizedlist>
    2020
     21<listitem><para>July 23nd, 2004 [randy]: Updated to Nail-10.8 and added an
     22optional dependency and additional configuration instructions to Sendmail.
     23</para></listitem>
     24
    2125<listitem><para>July 22nd, 2004 [randy]: Updated Berkeley DB size entities
    2226and provided instructions to change ownership of the installed files to the
  • server/mail/sendmail.xml

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    4141<para><xref linkend="openssl"/>, <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
    4242<xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/>, <xref linkend="pcre"/>,
    43 <ulink url="http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/nph/">nph</ulink> and
    44 <ulink url="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/">Cyrus SASL</ulink>
     43<ulink url="http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/nph/">nph</ulink>,
     44<ulink url="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/">Cyrus SASL</ulink> and
     45<xref linkend="gs"/> (for creating <acronym>PDF</acronym> documentation)
    4546</para></sect4>
    4647</sect3>
     
    8283sh Build install</command></userinput></screen>
    8384
     85<para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> See the source tree
     86<filename>sendmail/README</filename> file for information on linking optional
     87packages into the build.</para>
     88
    8489<para>Install the <application>Sendmail</application> Installation and
    8590Operations Guide with the following commands:</para>
     
    112117newaliases -v</command></userinput></screen>
    113118
     119<para><application>Sendmail</application>'s primary configuration file,
     120<filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</filename>, is complex and not meant to be
     121directly edited. The recommended method to make changes is to modify
     122<filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.mc</filename>, and various
     123<application>m4</application> files, then run the <command>m4</command>
     124macro processor from within <filename class='directory'>/etc/mail</filename>
     125as follows:</para>
     126
     127<screen><userinput><command>m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf</command></userinput></screen>
     128
     129<para>A full explanation of the files to modify, and the available parameters
     130can be found in <filename>/etc/mail/README</filename>.</para>
     131
    114132<para>To automate the running of <application>Sendmail</application> at
    115133startup, install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</filename>
    116134init script included in the
    117135<xref linkend="intro-important-bootscripts"/> package.</para>
    118                                                                                                                
     136
    119137<screen><userinput><command>make install-sendmail</command></userinput></screen>
    120138
    121139<note><para>The -qNm option to <command>sendmail</command>, where N is number
    122 of minutes, controls how often Sendmail will process the mail queue. A default
    123 of 5 minutes is used in the init script. Individual workstation users may want
    124 to set this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail may
    125 want to set it higher.</para></note>
     140of minutes, controls how often <application>Sendmail</application> will process
     141the mail queue. A default of 5 minutes is used in the init script. Individual
     142workstation users may want to set this as low as 1 minute, large installations
     143handling more mail may want to set it higher.</para></note>
    126144
    127145</sect3>
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