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3 NEW SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILES
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5 Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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7 @(#)README 8.65 (Berkeley) 06/19/95
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10This document describes the sendmail configuration files being used
11at Berkeley. These use features in the new (R8) sendmail; they will
12not work on other versions.
13
14These configuration files are probably not as general as previous
15versions, and don't handle as many of the weird cases automagically.
16I was able to simplify by them for two reasons. First, the network
17has become more consistent -- for example, at this point, everyone
18on the internet is supposed to be running a name server, so hacks to
19handle NIC-registered hosts can go away. Second, I assumed that a
20subdomain would be running SMTP internally -- UUCP is presumed to be
21a long-haul protocol. I realize that this is not universal, but it
22does describe the vast majority of sites with which I am familiar,
23including those outside the US.
24
25Of course, the downside of this is that if you do live in a weird
26world, things are going to get weirder for you. I'm sorry about that,
27but at the time we at Berkeley had a problem, and it seemed like the
28right thing to do.
29
30This package requires a post-V7 version of m4; if you are running the
314.2bsd, SysV.2, or 7th Edition version, I suggest finding a friend with
32a newer version. You can m4-expand on their system, then run locally.
33SunOS's /usr/5bin/m4 or BSD-Net/2's m4 both work. GNU m4 version 1.1
34also works. Unfortunately, I'm told that the M4 on BSDI 1.0 doesn't
35work -- you'll have to use a Net/2 or GNU version.
36
37IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BERKELEY MAKE, don't despair! Just run
38"m4 foo.mc > foo.cf" -- that should be all you need. There is also
39a fairly crude (but functional) Makefile.dist that works on the
40old version of make.
41
42To get started, you may want to look at tcpproto.mc (for TCP-only
43sites), uucpproto.mc (for UUCP-only sites), and clientproto.mc (for
44clusters of clients using a single mail host). Others are versions
45that we use at Berkeley, although not all are in current use. For
46example, ucbarpa has gone away, but I've left ucbarpa.mc in because
47it demonstrates some interesting techniques.
48
49I'm not pretending that this README describes everything that these
50configuration files can do; clever people can probably tweak them
51to great effect. But it should get you started.
52
53*******************************************************************
54*** BE SURE YOU CUSTOMIZE THESE FILES! They have some ***
55*** Berkeley-specific assumptions built in, such as the name ***
56*** of our UUCP-relay. You'll want to create your own domain ***
57*** description, and use that in place of domain/Berkeley.m4. ***
58*******************************************************************
59
60
61+--------------------------+
62| INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE |
63+--------------------------+
64
65Configuration files are contained in the subdirectory "cf", with a
66suffix ".mc". They must be run through "m4" to produce a ".cf" file.
67
68Let's examine a typical .mc file (cf/cs-hpux9.mc):
69
70 divert(-1)
71 #
72 # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman
73 # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
74 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
75 #
76 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
77 # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
78 # are met:
79 # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
80 # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
81 # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
82 # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
83 # the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
84 # distribution.
85 # 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
86 # software # must display the following acknowledgement:
87 # This product includes software developed by the University of
88 # California, Berkeley and its contributors.
89 # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its
90 # contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
91 # from this software without specific prior written permission.
92 #
93 # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS''
94 # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
95 # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
96 # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS
97 # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
98 # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
99 # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
100 # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
101 # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
102 # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
103 # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
104 #
105
106 #
107 # This is a Berkeley-specific configuration file for HP-UX 9.x.
108 # It applies only the the Computer Science Division at Berkeley,
109 # and should not be used elsewhere. It is provided on the sendmail
110 # distribution as a sample only. To create your own configuration
111 # file, create an appropriate domain file in ../domain, change the
112 # `DOMAIN' macro below to reference that file, and copy the result
113 # to a name of your own choosing.
114 #
115
116The divert(-1) will delete the crud in the resulting output file.
117The copyright notice can be replace by whatever your lawyers require;
118our lawyers require the one that I've included in my files. A copyleft
119is a copyright by another name.
120
121The next line MUST be
122
123 include(`../m4/cf.m4')
124
125This will pull in the M4 macros you will need to make sense of
126everything else. As the saying goes, don't think about it, just
127do it. If you don't do it, don't bother reading the rest of this
128file.
129
130 VERSIONID(`<SCCS or RCS version id>')
131
132VERSIONID is a macro that stuffs the version information into the
133resulting file. We use SCCS; you could use RCS, something else, or
134omit it completely. This is not the same as the version id included
135in SMTP greeting messages -- this is defined in m4/version.m4.
136
137 OSTYPE(hpux9)dnl
138
139You must specify an OSTYPE to properly configure things such as the
140pathname of the help and status files, the flags needed for the local
141mailer, and other important things. If you omit it, you will get an
142error when you try to build the configuration. Look at the ostype
143directory for the list of known operating system types.
144
145 DOMAIN(CS.Berkeley.EDU)dnl
146
147This example is specific to the Computer Science Division at Berkeley.
148You can use "DOMAIN(generic)" to get a sufficiently bland definition
149that may well work for you, or you can create a customized domain
150definition appropriate for your environment.
151
152 MAILER(local)
153 MAILER(smtp)
154
155These describe the mailers used at the default CS site site. The
156local mailer is always included automatically.
157
158
159+--------+
160| OSTYPE |
161+--------+
162
163You MUST define an operating system environment, or the configuration
164file build will puke. There are several environments available; look
165at the "ostype" directory for the current list. This macro changes
166things like the location of the alias file and queue directory. Some
167of these files are identical to one another.
168
169Operating system definitions are usually easy to write. They may define
170the following variables (everything defaults, so an ostype file may be
171empty). Unfortunately, the list of configuration-supported systems is
172not as broad as the list of source-supported systems, since many of
173the source contributors do not include corresponding ostype files.
174
175ALIAS_FILE [/etc/aliases] The location of the text version
176 of the alias file(s). It can be a comma-separated
177 list of names (but be sure you quote values with
178 commas in them -- for example, use
179 define(`ALIAS_FILE', `a,b')
180 to get "a" and "b" both listed as alias files;
181 otherwise the define() primitive only sees "a").
182HELP_FILE [/usr/lib/sendmail.hf] The name of the file
183 containing information printed in response to
184 the SMTP HELP command.
185QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/mqueue] The directory containing
186 queue files.
187STATUS_FILE [/etc/sendmail.st] The file containing status
188 information.
189LOCAL_MAILER_PATH [/bin/mail] The program used to deliver local mail.
190LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS [rmn] The flags used by the local mailer. The
191 flags lsDFM are always included.
192LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS [mail -d $u] The arguments passed to deliver local
193 mail.
194LOCAL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If defined, the maximum size of local
195 mail that you are willing to accept.
196LOCAL_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data
197 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to the
198 local mailer and which are converted to MIME will be
199 labelled with this character set.
200LOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email.
201LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu] The flags used by the shell mailer. The
202 flags lsDFM are always included.
203LOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog"
204 mail.
205LOCAL_SHELL_DIR [$z:/] The directory search path in which the
206 shell should run.
207USENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program
208 used to submit news.
209USENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rlsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer.
210USENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the
211 usenet mailer.
212USENET_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size of messages that will
213 be accepted by the usenet mailer.
214SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default
215 flags are `mDFMUX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the
216 "esmtp" mailer adds `a' and "smtp8" adds `8'.
217SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will
218 be transported using the smtp, smtp8, or esmtp
219 mailers.
220SMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer.
221 About the only reason you would want to change this
222 would be to change the default port.
223ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer.
224SMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer.
225RELAY_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer.
226SMTP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data
227 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of
228 the SMTP mailers and which are converted to MIME will
229 be labelled with this character set.
230UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default
231 flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for uucp-new mailer,
232 minus `U' for uucp-dom mailer).
233UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$g -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments
234 passed to the UUCP mailer.
235UUCP_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
236 transmission by the UUCP mailers.
237UUCP_MAILER_CHARSET [undefined] If defined, messages containing 8-bit data
238 that ARRIVE from an address that resolves to one of
239 the UUCP mailers and which are converted to MIME will
240 be labelled with this character set.
241FAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to
242 submit FAX messages.
243FAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
244 transmission by FAX.
245POP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/mh/spop] The pathname of the POP mailer.
246POP_MAILER_FLAGS [Penu] Flags added to POP mailer. Flags "lsDFM"
247 are always added.
248POP_MAILER_ARGS [pop $u] The arguments passed to the POP mailer.
249PROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [Shu] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags
250 ``DFMmn'' are always set.
251PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to
252 the Procmail mailer.
253PROCMAIL_MAILER_MAX [undefined] If set, the maximum size message that
254 will be accepted by the procmail mailer.
255MAIL11_MAILER_PATH [/usr/etc/mail11] The path to the mail11 mailer.
256MAIL11_MAILER_FLAGS [nsFx] Flags for the mail11 mailer.
257MAIL11_MAILER_ARGS [mail11 $g $x $h $u] Arguments passed to the mail11
258 mailer.
259
260+---------+
261| DOMAINS |
262+---------+
263
264You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one
265file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, our Berkeley
266domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished
267hosts:
268
269UUCP_RELAY The host that will accept UUCP-addressed email.
270 If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly
271 connected.
272BITNET_RELAY The host that will accept BITNET-addressed email.
273 If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work.
274DECNET_RELAY The host that will accept DECNET-addressed email.
275 If not defined, the .DECNET pseudo-domain and addresses
276 of the form node::user will not work.
277FAX_RELAY The host that will accept mail to the .FAX pseudo-domain.
278 The "fax" mailer overrides this value.
279LOCAL_RELAY DEPRECATED. The site that will handle unqualified
280 names -- that is, names with out an @domain extension.
281 If not set, they are assumed to belong on this machine.
282 This allows you to have a central site to store a
283 company- or department-wide alias database. This
284 only works at small sites, and only with some user
285 agents.
286LUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently
287 local names that aren't local accounts or aliases.
288
289Any of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the
290mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``uucp-new'' and the hostname
291is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a
292``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'',
293a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX
294record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to
295have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back
296to yourself.
297
298The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed
299(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts
300at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use
301MASQUERADE_AS here.
302
303You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a
304single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than
305it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent
306knowledge" into one place.
307
308+---------+
309| MAILERS |
310+---------+
311
312There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous
313version, owing mostly to a simpler world.
314
315local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always
316 need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL
317 your mail to another site. This mailer is included
318 automatically.
319
320smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does
321 not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other
322 such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is
323 running the name server. This file actually defines
324 four mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to
325 other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other
326 servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without
327 converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is
328 your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit
329 clean even if it doesn't say so), and "relay" for
330 transmission to our RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or
331 MAILER_HUB.
332
333uucp The Unix-to-Unix Copy Program mailer. Actually, this
334 defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and
335 "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you
336 know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle
337 multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer
338 is also included in your configuration, two other mailers
339 ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined [warning:
340 you MUST specify MAILER(smtp) before MAILER(uucp)]. When you
341 include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in
342 the $=U class and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all
343 names in the $=Y class are sent to uucp-new; and all
344 names in the $=Z class are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that
345 this is a function of what version of rmail runs on
346 the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control.
347 See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more
348 detail.
349
350usenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified,
351 an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all
352 local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the
353 ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups,
354 and may be considered a security problem.
355
356fax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based
357 on Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software. For more information,
358 see below.
359
360pop Post Office Protocol.
361
362procmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail).
363 This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example,
364 a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given
365 domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer
366 defined, you could set up a mailertable reading:
367
368 host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com
369
370 with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading:
371
372 :0 # forward mail for host.com
373 ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host
374
375 This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent
376 to person@other.host. Within the procmail script, $1 is
377 the name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient.
378 If you use this with FEATURE(local_procmail), the FEATURE
379 should be listed first.
380
381mail11 The DECnet mail11 mailer, useful only if you have the mail11
382 program from gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/gwtools (and
383 DECnet, of course).
384
385The local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where
386the "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available
387to certain local mail programs (in particular, see FEATURE(local_procmail)).
388For example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and "eric+sww" all indicate
389the same user, but additional arguments <null>, "sendmail", and "sww"
390may be provided for use in sorting mail.
391
392
393+----------+
394| FEATURES |
395+----------+
396
397Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For
398example, the .mc line:
399
400 FEATURE(use_cw_file)
401
402tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/sendmail.cw
403file to get values for class $=w. The FEATURE may contain a single
404optional parameter -- for example:
405
406 FEATURE(mailertable, dbm /usr/lib/mailertable)
407
408Available features are:
409
410use_cw_file Read the file /etc/sendmail.cw file to get alternate
411 names for this host. This might be used if you were
412 on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other
413 hosts. If the set is static, just including the line
414 "Cw<name1> <name2> ..." is probably superior.
415 The actual filename can be overridden by redefining
416 confCW_FILE.
417
418redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with
419 a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message.
420 If this is set, you can alias people who have left
421 to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.
422
423nouucp Don't do anything special with UUCP addresses at all.
424
425nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification.
426 This would generally only be used by sites that only
427 act as mail gateways or which have user agents that do
428 full canonification themselves. You may also want to
429 use "define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to
430 turn off the usual resolver options that do a similar
431 thing.
432
433stickyhost If set, email sent to "user@local.host" are marked
434 as "sticky" -- that is, the local addresses aren't
435 matched against UDB and don't go through ruleset 5.
436 This is used if you want a set up where "user" is
437 not necessarily the same as "user@local.host", e.g.,
438 to make a distinct domain-wide namespace. Prior to
439 8.7 this was the default, and notsticky was used to
440 turn this off.
441
442mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override
443 routing for particular domains. The argument of the
444 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
445 the definition used is:
446 hash -o /etc/mailertable
447 Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names
448 or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example,
449 "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU".
450 Values must be of the form:
451 mailer:domain
452 where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain"
453 is where to send the message. These maps are not
454 reflected into the message header.
455
456domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide
457 domain name mapping. Use of this should really be
458 limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you
459 change names (e.g., your company changes names from
460 oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the
461 FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
462 the definition used is:
463 hash -o /etc/domaintable
464 The key in this table is the domain name; the value is
465 the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the
466 domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this
467 is done in ruleset 3.
468
469bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into
470 internet addresses. The table can be built using the
471 bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers.
472 The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if
473 none is specified, the definition used is:
474 hash -o /etc/bitdomain.db
475 Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding
476 internet hostname.
477
478uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition
479 is:
480 hash -o /etc/uudomain.db
481 At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this
482 database.
483
484always_add_domain
485 Include the local host domain even on locally delivered
486 mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already
487 present.
488
489allmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this
490 feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade
491 as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get
492 the local hostname. Although this may be right for
493 ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example,
494 if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will
495 find that alias and send to all members, but send the
496 message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that
497 alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this
498 feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE
499 namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the
500 local entries.
501
502nodns We aren't running DNS at our site (for example,
503 we are UUCP-only connected). It's hard to consider
504 this a "feature", but hey, it had to go somewhere.
505
506nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a stripped down
507 configuration file containing nothing but support for
508 forwarding all mail to a central hub via a local
509 SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that
510 hub.
511
512 The only other feature that should be used in conjunction
513 with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to
514 be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally
515 they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which
516 defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers
517 should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done.
518
519local_procmail Use procmail as the local mailer. This mailer can
520 make use of the "user+indicator@local.host" syntax;
521 normally the +indicator is just tossed, but by default
522 it is passed as the -a argument to procmail. The
523 argument to this feature is the pathname of procmail,
524 which defaults to /usr/local/bin/procmail.
525
526bestmx_is_local Accept mail as though locally addressed for any host that
527 lists us as the best possible MX record. This generates
528 additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to
529 medium traffic hosts. THIS FEATURE IS FUNDAMENTALLY
530 INCOMPATIBLE WITH WILDCARD MX RECORDS!!! If you have
531 a wildcard MX record that matches your domain, you
532 cannot use this feature.
533
534smrsh Use the SendMail Restricted SHell (smrsh) provided
535 with the distribution instead of /bin/sh for mailing
536 to programs. This improves the ability of the local
537 system administrator to control what gets run via
538 e-mail. If an argument is provided it is used as the
539 pathname to smrsh; otherwise, /usr/local/etc/smrsh is
540 assumed.
541
542
543+-------+
544| HACKS |
545+-------+
546
547Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear,
548they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK
549macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release
550includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes
551sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU;
552this is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into
553subdomains.
554
555
556+--------------------+
557| SITE CONFIGURATION |
558+--------------------+
559
560 *****************************************************
561 * This section is really obsolete, and is preserved *
562 * only for back compatibility. You should plan on *
563 * using mailertables for new installations. In *
564 * particular, it doesn't work for the newer forms *
565 * of UUCP mailers, such as uucp-uudom. *
566 *****************************************************
567
568Complex sites will need more local configuration information, such as
569lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more
570tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc.
571
572If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment
573the $=w class. This is a list of names by which you are known, and
574anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
575treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create
576the file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per
577line), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the
578line:
579
580 Cw alias.host.name
581
582at the end of that file. See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example.
583Be sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a
584short name.
585
586The SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent
587configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For
588example, the line
589
590 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U)
591
592reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The
593second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since
594it is locally connected, and hence a UUCP hostname). The third
595parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in
596this case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store
597the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads
598
599 SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W)
600
601This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites
602connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. The $=W class will be used to
603store this list, and $W is defined to be ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, that
604is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa
605are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left
606this out-of-date configuration file around to demonstrate how you
607might do this.]
608
609Note that the case of SITECONFIG with a third parameter of ``U'' is
610special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the
611local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name
612is entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP.
613
614The siteconfig file (e.g., siteconfig/uucp.ucbvax.m4) contains nothing
615more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For
616example:
617
618 SITE(cnmat)
619 SITE(sgi olympus)
620
621The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the
622same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at
623least in the same company).
624
625
626+--------------------+
627| USING UUCP MAILERS |
628+--------------------+
629
630It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc
631nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed
632for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites.
633
634There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to
635use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at
636the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that
637define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you
638should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have
639to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages
640people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid
641UUCP, please do.
642
643The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a
644non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other
645end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the
646other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses
647don't work entirely properly.
648
649The four mailers are:
650
651 uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp")
652 This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of
653 sending messages accros UUCP connections. It does bangify
654 everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's
655 address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can
656 only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of
657 time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all
658 possible.
659
660 uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp")
661 The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail
662 command you can specify several recipients. It still has a
663 lot of other problems.
664
665 uucp-dom
666 This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses.
667 Basically, it uses the SMTP mailer rewriting rules. This mailer
668 is only included if MAILER(smtp) is also specified.
669
670 Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require
671 bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use
672 domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope
673 shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So....
674
675 uucp-uudom
676 This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses)
677 and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the
678 envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the
679 local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address
680 at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name
681 instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of
682 "some.dom.ain!wolf"). This is also included only if MAILER(smtp)
683 is also specified.
684
685Examples:
686
687We are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"). The
688following summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers.
689
690Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope
691------ ------ -------------------------
692uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf
693uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
694uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf
695
696uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf
697uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net
698uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf
699
700uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf
701uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
702uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf
703
704If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want
705to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will
706do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example,
707if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo),
708the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to
709this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it
710will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain
711feature.
712
713
714+-------------------+
715| TWEAKING RULESETS |
716+-------------------+
717
718For more complex configurations, you can define special rules.
719The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing
720the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header.
721
722A common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using
723the UUCPSMTP macro. For example:
724
725 LOCAL_RULE_3
726 UUCPSMTP(decvax, decvax.dec.com)
727 UUCPSMTP(research, research.att.com)
728
729will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user"
730to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com"
731respectively.
732
733This could also be used to look up hosts in a database map:
734
735 LOCAL_RULE_3
736 R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3
737
738This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below.
739
740Similarly, LOCAL_RULE_0 can be used to introduce new parsing rules.
741For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept
742via MX records. For example, you might have:
743
744 LOCAL_RULE_0
745 R$+ <@ host.dom.ain.> $#uucp $@ cnmat $: $1 < @ host.dom.ain.>
746
747You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU
748pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on
749using UUCP.
750
751You can also tweak rulesets 1 and 2 using LOCAL_RULE_1 and LOCAL_RULE_2.
752These rulesets are normally empty.
753
754A similar macro is LOCAL_CONFIG. This introduces lines added after the
755boilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to
756declare local database maps or whatever. For example:
757
758 LOCAL_CONFIG
759 Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db
760 Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname
761
762
763+---------------------------+
764| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
765+---------------------------+
766
767You can have your host masquerade as another using
768
769 MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain)
770
771This causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the
772indicated domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as one
773of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would
774choose to masquerade as an MIT site).
775
776The masquerade name is not normally canonified, so it is important
777that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a
778CNAME.
779
780there are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their
781internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.
782Root is an example. You can add users to this list using
783
784 EXPOSED_USER(usernames)
785
786This adds users to class E; you could also use something like
787
788 FE/etc/sendmail.cE
789
790You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names
791without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central
792email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have
793to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using
794
795 define(`LOCAL_RELAY', mailer:hostname)
796
797The ``mailer:'' can be omitted, in which case the mailer defaults to
798"smtp". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps
799because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be
800locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using
801
802 LOCAL_USER(usernames)
803
804This adds users to class L; you could also use something like
805
806 FL/etc/sendmail.cL
807
808If you want all incoming mail sent to a centralized hub, as for a
809shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use
810
811 define(`MAIL_HUB', mailer:hostname)
812
813Again, ``mailer:'' defaults to "smtp". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY
814and MAIL_HUB _AND_ you have FEATURE(stickyhost), unqualified names will
815be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB.
816Names in $=L will be delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or
817.forward files for them.
818
819For example, if are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU and you have
820FEATURE(stickyhost), the following combinations of settings will have the
821indicated effects:
822
823email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
824
825LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally)
826mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (no local aliasing) (aliasing done)
827
828MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
829mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU (aliasing done) (aliasing done)
830
831Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
832MAIL_HUB set as above (no local aliasing) (aliasing done)
833
834If you do not have FEATURE(stickyhost) set, then LOCAL_RELAY and
835MAIL_HUB act identically, with MAIL_HUB taking precedence.
836
837If you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define
838SMART_HOST as well. Briefly:
839
840 LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric").
841 MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
842 local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU").
843 SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.
844
845However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY,
846DECNET_RELAY, and FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you
847really want absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will
848need to unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a
849minimal config file that does this.
850
851
852+-------------------------------+
853| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |
854+-------------------------------+
855
856These configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based
857sites. I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or
858UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net
859connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is one
860hook to handle some special cases.
861
862You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax
863using:
864
865 define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname)
866
867In this case, the ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". Any messages that
868can't be handled using the usual UUCP rules are passed to this host.
869
870If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside
871world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules.
872For example:
873
874 define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet)
875 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
876 R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
877
878This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via
879SMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet.
880If you have FEATURE(nocanonify), you may need to omit the dots after
881the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is
882not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to
883use:
884
885 define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com)
886 LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
887 R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3
888
889That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup;
890anything else goes through SMART_HOST.
891
892If you are not running DNS at all, it is important to use
893FEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting
894for the name server to come up.
895
896
897+-----------+
898| WHO AM I? |
899+-----------+
900
901Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully
902qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your
903host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the
904result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns
905only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is
906supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare)
907cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case
908you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain
909name. This is usually done using:
910
911 Dmbar.com
912 define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl
913
914
915+--------------------+
916| USING MAILERTABLES |
917+--------------------+
918
919To use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external
920database containing the routing information for various domains.
921For example, a mailertable file in text format might be:
922
923 .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain
924 uuhost1.my.domain suucp:uuhost1
925 .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net
926
927This should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable. The actual
928database version of the mailertable is built using:
929
930 makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
931
932The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with
933a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning
934with a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is,
935they can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard. Matching
936is done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even
937though ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry
938of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is
939more explicit.
940
941The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the
942configuration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the
943sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to
944that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading
945dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of
946the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything
947addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using
948the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer.
949
950In some cases you may want to temporarily turn off MX records,
951particularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX
952everything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it
953directly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration:
954
955 *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine
956
957and on relay.machine use the mailertable:
958
959 .domain smtp:[gateway.domain]
960
961The [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only.
962If you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record
963again, which would give you an MX loop.
964
965
966+--------------------------------+
967| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
968+--------------------------------+
969
970The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
971to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
972it that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
973purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
974is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
975a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
976
977If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
978imperative that you not use FEATURE(stickyhost) -- otherwise,
979e-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected.
980
981To build the internal form of the user database, use:
982
983 makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
984
985As a general rule, I am adamantly opposed to using full names as
986e-mail addresses, since they are not in any sense unique. For example,
987the Unix software-development community has two Andy Tannenbaums,
988at least two well-known Peter Deutsches, and at one time Bell Labs
989had two Stephen R. Bournes with offices along the same hallway.
990Which one will be forced to suffer the indignity of being
991Stephen_R_Bourne_2? The less famous of the two, or the one that
992was hired later?
993
994Finger should handle full names (and be fuzzy). Mail should use
995handles, and not be fuzzy. [Not that I expect anyone to pay any
996attention to my opinions.]
997
998
999+--------------------------------+
1000| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES |
1001+--------------------------------+
1002
1003Plussed users
1004 Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a
1005 centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all
1006 root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be
1007 useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class
1008 of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this
1009 using plussed users. For example, a client might include
1010 the alias:
1011
1012 root: root+client1@server
1013
1014 On the server, this will match an alias for "root+client1".
1015 If that is not found, the alias "root+*" will be tried,
1016 then "root".
1017
1018
1019+----------------+
1020| SECURITY NOTES |
1021+----------------+
1022
1023A lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much
1024more careful about checking for security problems than previous
1025versions, but there are some things that you still need to watch
1026for. In particular:
1027
1028* Make sure the aliases file isn't writable except by trusted
1029 system personnel. This includes both the text and database
1030 version.
1031
1032* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the
1033 mailertable, is only writable by trusted system personnel.
1034
1035* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY
1036 if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root
1037 user can chown any file they own to any other user).
1038
1039* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically
1040 writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone
1041 to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that
1042 copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a
1043 night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory).
1044
1045* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that
1046 sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in
1047 particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in
1048 /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before
1049 files and programs listed in them will be honored).
1050
1051In general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them
1052off I recommend you do so.
1053
1054
1055+------------------+
1056| FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
1057+------------------+
1058
1059Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a
1060public version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93]. The following
1061blurb is direct from Sam:
1062
1063 $Header: /usr/people/sam/fax/RCS/HOWTO,v 1.14 93/05/24 11:42:16 sam Exp $
1064
1065 How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)
1066 --------------------------------------------------------------
1067 The source code is available for public ftp on
1068 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z
1069 (192.48.153.1)
1070
1071 You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from
1072 sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar
1073 (192.48.153.1)
1074
1075 For example,
1076 % ftp -n sgi.com
1077 ....
1078 ftp> user anonymous
1079 ... <type in password>
1080 ftp> cd sgi/fax
1081 ftp> binary
1082 ftp> get v2.1.src.tar.Z
1083
1084 In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is
1085 always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp
1086 directory. This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so
1087 don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of
1088 the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older
1089 versions of the source code. For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would
1090 contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z. (Note to beta testers: this is
1091 different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch
1092 files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are
1093 multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply
1094 each patch file between your current version and the latest.
1095
1096
1097 Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail
1098 -----------------------------------------
1099 Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without
1100 response). If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
1101 "ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com: you can send e-mail to
1102 this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you
1103 the files back again via e-mail. To find out more about the ftpmail
1104 service, send a message to "ftpmail@gatekeeper.dec.com" whose body
1105 consists of the single line "help".
1106
1107
1108 Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics
1109 ----------------------------------------------
1110 Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
1111 flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist. Thus you can do something like:
1112
1113 % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax
1114
1115 to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
1116
1117
1118 What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff
1119 --------------------------------------
1120 The external distributions come in a compressed or uncompressed tar
1121 file. To extract the source distribution:
1122
1123 % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf -
1124
1125 (uncompress and extract individual files in current directory). To
1126 unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution:
1127
1128 % mkdir dist
1129 % cd dist; tar xf ../v2.1.inst.tar; cd ..
1130 % inst -f dist/flexfax
1131 ...
1132 inst> go
1133
1134 (Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if
1135 the files are in the current directory.) Server binaries are also
1136 included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*. They are not
1137 installed by default, so to get them also you need to do:
1138
1139 % inst -f flexfax
1140 ...
1141 inst> install flexfax.server.*
1142 inst> go
1143
1144 The SGI binaries were built for Version 4.0.5H of the IRIX operating
1145 system. They should work w/o problem on earlier versions of the
1146 system, but I have not fully tested this. Also, note that to install a
1147 server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display
1148 PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe). Otherwise, the fax
1149 server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for
1150 transmission.
1151
1152 If you are working from the source distribution, look at the file
1153 README in the top of the source tree. If you are working from the inst
1154 images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and
1155 other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in
1156 the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax). Basically you will need to run
1157 the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem. Consult
1158 the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information.
1159
1160
1161 FlexFAX Mail List
1162 -----------------
1163 A mailing list for users of this software is located on sgi.com.
1164 If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request
1165 such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to
1166
1167 majordomo@whizzer.wpd.sgi.com
1168
1169 For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in
1170 the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of
1171 the commands understood by the mailing list management software.
1172
1173 Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to:
1174
1175 flexfax@sgi.com
1176
1177 When corresponding about this software please always specify what
1178 version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is
1179 specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision.
1180
1181
1182+--------------------------------+
1183| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |
1184+--------------------------------+
1185
1186There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally
1187need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you
1188can define the following M4 variables. This list is shown in four
1189columns: the name you define, the default value for that definition,
1190the option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx
1191for a macro), and a brief description. Greater detail of the semantics
1192can be found in the Installation and Operations Guide.
1193
1194Some options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is,
1195the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are
1196marked with "*".
1197
1198Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to
1199be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to
1200be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma
1201confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for
1202the read timeout.
1203
1204M4 Variable Name Configuration Description & [Default]
1205================ ============= =======================
1206confMAILER_NAME $n macro [MAILER-DAEMON] The sender name used
1207 for internally generated outgoing
1208 messages.
1209confFROM_LINE $l macro [From $g $d] The From_ line used
1210 when sending to files or programs.
1211confFROM_HEADER $q macro [$?x$x <$g>$|$g$.] The format of an
1212 internally generated From: address.
1213confOPERATORS $o macro [.:%@!^/[]+] Address operator
1214 characters.
1215confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG $e macro [$j Sendmail $v/$Z; $b]
1216 The initial (spontaneous) SMTP
1217 greeting message. The word "ESMTP"
1218 will be inserted between the first and
1219 second words to convince other
1220 sendmails to try to speak ESMTP.
1221confDOMAIN_NAME $j macro If defined, sets $j. This should
1222 only be done if your system cannot
1223 determine your local domain name,
1224 and then it should be set to
1225 $w.Foo.COM, where Foo.COM is your
1226 domain name.
1227confCF_VERSION $Z macro If defined, this is appended to the
1228 configuration version name.
1229confRECEIVED_HEADER Received:
1230 [.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u for $u$.; $b]
1231 The format of the Received: header
1232 in messages passed through this host.
1233 It is unwise to try to change this.
1234confCW_FILE Fw class [/etc/sendmail.cw] Name of file used
1235 to get the local additions to the $=w
1236 class.
1237confSMTP_MAILER - [smtp] The mailer name used when
1238 SMTP connectivity is required.
1239 One of "smtp", "smtp8", or "esmtp".
1240confLOCAL_MAILER - [local] The mailer name used when
1241 local connectivity is required.
1242 Almost always "local".
1243confRELAY_MAILER - [relay] The default mailer name used
1244 for relaying any mail (e.g., to a
1245 BITNET_RELAY, a SMART_HOST, or
1246 whatever). This can reasonably be
1247 "uucp-new" if you are on a
1248 UUCP-connected site.
1249confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT SevenBitInput [False] Force input to seven bits?
1250confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING EightBitMode [pass8] 8-bit data handling
1251confALIAS_WAIT AliasWait [10m] Time to wait for alias file
1252 rebuild until you get bored and
1253 decide that the apparently pending
1254 rebuild failed.
1255confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS MinFreeBlocks [100] Minimum number of free blocks on
1256 queue filesystem to accept SMTP mail.
1257 (Prior to 8.7 this was minfree/maxsize,
1258 where minfree was the number of free
1259 blocks and maxsize was the maximum
1260 message size. Use confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE
1261 for the second value now.)
1262confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE MaxMessageSize The maximum size of messages that will
1263 be accepted (in bytes).
1264confBLANK_SUB BlankSub [.] Blank (space) substitution
1265 character.
1266confCON_EXPENSIVE HoldExpensive [False] Avoid connecting immediately
1267 to mailers marked expensive?
1268confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL CheckpointInterval
1269 Checkpoint queue files every N
1270 recipients.
1271confDELIVERY_MODE DeliveryMode [background] Default delivery mode.
1272confAUTO_REBUILD AutoRebuildAliases
1273 Automatically rebuild alias
1274 file if needed.
1275confERROR_MODE ErrorMode Error message mode.
1276confERROR_MESSAGE ErrorHeader Error message header/file.
1277confSAVE_FROM_LINES SafeFromLine Save extra leading From_ lines.
1278confTEMP_FILE_MODE TempFileMode [0600] Temporary file mode.
1279confMATCH_GECOS MatchGECOS Match GECOS field.
1280confMAX_HOP MaxHopCount Maximum hop count.
1281confIGNORE_DOTS* IgnoreDots Ignore dot as terminator for incoming
1282 messages?
1283confBIND_OPTS ResolverOptions Default options for DNS resolver.
1284confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS* SendMimeErrors [True] Send error messages as MIME-
1285 encapsulated messages per RFC 1344.
1286confFORWARD_PATH ForwardPath [$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward]
1287 The colon-separated list of places to
1288 search for .forward files. N.B.: see
1289 the Security Notes section.
1290confMCI_CACHE_SIZE ConnectionCacheSize
1291 [2] Size of open connection cache.
1292confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT ConnectionCacheTimeout
1293 [5m] Open connection cache timeout.
1294confUSE_ERRORS_TO* UserErrorsTo [False] Use the Errors-To: header to deliver
1295 error messages. This should not be
1296 necessary because of general acceptance
1297 of the envelope/header distinction.
1298confLOG_LEVEL LogLevel [9] Log level.
1299confME_TOO MeToo Include sender in group expansions.
1300confCHECK_ALIASES CheckAliases [False] Check RHS of aliases when
1301 running newaliases. Since this does
1302 DNS lookups on every address, it can
1303 slow down the alias rebuild process
1304 considerably on large alias files.
1305confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS* OldStyleHeaders [True] Assume that headers without
1306 special chars are old style.
1307confDAEMON_OPTIONS DaemonPortOptions
1308 SMTP daemon options.
1309confPRIVACY_FLAGS PrivacyOptions [authwarnings] Privacy flags.
1310confCOPY_ERRORS_TO PostmasterCopy Address for additional copies of all
1311 error messages.
1312confQUEUE_FACTOR QueueFactor Slope of queue-only function.
1313confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES DontPruneRoutes Don't prune down route-addr syntax
1314 addresses to the minimum possible.
1315confSAFE_QUEUE* SuperSafe [True] Commit all messages to disk
1316 before forking.
1317confTIME_ZONE TimeZoneSpec [USE_SYSTEM] Time zone info -- can be
1318 USE_SYSTEM to use the system's idea,
1319 USE_TZ to use the user's TZ envariable,
1320 or something else to force that value.
1321confDEF_USER_ID DefaultUser [1:1] Default user id.
1322confUSERDB_SPEC UserDatabaseSpec
1323 User database specification.
1324confFALLBACK_MX FallbackMXhost Fallback MX host.
1325confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST TryNullMXList If we are the best MX for a host and
1326 haven't made other arrangements, try
1327 connecting to the host directly;
1328 normally this would be a config error.
1329confQUEUE_LA QueueLA Load average at which queue-only
1330 function kicks in.
1331confREFUSE_LA RefuseLA Load average at which incoming
1332 SMTP connections are refused.
1333confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR
1334 RecipientFactor Cost of each recipient.
1335confSEPARATE_PROC ForkEachJob Run all deliveries in a separate
1336 process.
1337confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR ClassFactor Priority multiplier for class.
1338confWORK_TIME_FACTOR RetryFactor Cost of each delivery attempt.
1339confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER QueueSortOrder Queue sort algorithm: Priority or Host.
1340confMIN_QUEUE_AGE MinQueueAge The minimum amount of time a job
1341 must sit in the queue between queue
1342 runs. This allows you to set the
1343 queue run interval low for better
1344 resposiveness without trying all
1345 jobs in each run.
1346confDEF_CHAR_SET DefaultCharSet When converting unlabelled 8 bit
1347 input to MIME, the character set to
1348 use by default.
1349confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE ServiceSwitchFile
1350 The file to use for the service switch
1351 on systems that do not have a system-
1352 defined switch.
1353confDIAL_DELAY DialDelay If a connection fails, wait this long
1354 and try again. This is to allow
1355 "dial on demand" connections to have
1356 enough time to complete a connection.
1357confNO_RCPT_ACTION NoRecipientAction
1358 What to do if there are no legal
1359 recipient fields (To:, Cc: or Bcc:)
1360 in the message. Legal values can
1361 be "none" to just leave the
1362 nonconforming message as is, "add-to"
1363 to add a To: header with all the
1364 known recipients (which may expose
1365 blind recipients), "add-apparently-to"
1366 to do the same but use Apparently-To:
1367 instead of To:, "add-bcc" to add an
1368 empty Bcc: header, or
1369 "add-to-undisclosed" to add the header
1370 ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;''.
1371 Default is "none".
1372confSAFE_FILE_ENV SafeFileEnvironment
1373 If set, sendmail will do a chroot()
1374 into this directory before writing
1375 files.
1376confCOLON_OK_IN_ADDR ColonOkInAddr If set, colons are treated as a regular
1377 character in addresses. If not set,
1378 they are treated as the introducer to
1379 the RFC 822 "group" syntax. Colons are
1380 handled properly in route-addrs. This
1381 option defaults on for V5 and lower
1382 configuration files.
1383confMAX_QUEUE_RUN_SIZE MaxQueueRunSize If set, limit the maximum size of any
1384 given queue run to this number of
1385 entries. Essentially, this will stop
1386 reading the queue directory after this
1387 number of entries are reached; it does
1388 _not_ pick the highest priority jobs,
1389 so this should be as large as your
1390 system can tolerate. If not set, there
1391 is no limit.
1392confDONT_EXPAND_CNAMES DontExpandCnames
1393 If set, $[ ... $] lookups that do DNS
1394 based lookups do not expand CNAME
1395 records. This currently violates the
1396 published standards, but the IETF
1397 seems to be moving toward legalizing
1398 this. For example, if "FTP.Foo.ORG"
1399 is a CNAME for "Cruft.Foo.ORG", then
1400 with this option set a lookup of
1401 "FTP" will return "FTP.Foo.ORG"; if
1402 clear it returns "Cruft.FOO.ORG". N.B.
1403 you may not see any effect until your
1404 downstream neighbors stop doing CNAME
1405 lookups as well.
1406
1407
1408+-----------+
1409| HIERARCHY |
1410+-----------+
1411
1412Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit:
1413
1414m4 General support routines. These are typically
1415 very important and should not be changed without
1416 very careful consideration.
1417
1418cf The configuration files themselves. They have
1419 ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to
1420 become complete. The resulting output should
1421 have a ".cf" suffix.
1422
1423ostype Definitions describing a particular operating
1424 system type. These should always be referenced
1425 using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples
1426 include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and
1427 "sunos4.1".
1428
1429domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced
1430 using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are
1431 site dependent; for example, "CS.Berkeley.EDU.m4"
1432 describes hosts in the CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain.
1433
1434mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using
1435 the MAILER macro in the .mc file.
1436
1437sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the
1438 .mc file in the cf subdirectory.
1439
1440feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might
1441 want to include. They should be referenced using
1442 the FEATURE macro.
1443
1444hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK
1445 macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic
1446 interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows?
1447 We've all got our own peccadillos.
1448
1449siteconfig Site configuration -- e.g., tables of locally connected
1450 UUCP sites.
1451
1452
1453+------------------------+
1454| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS |
1455+------------------------+
1456
1457The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the
1458sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify
1459the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these
1460should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more).
1461
1462RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail)
1463
1464 0 * Parsing
1465 1 * Sender rewriting
1466 2 * Recipient rewriting
1467 3 * Canonicalization
1468 4 * Post cleanup
1469 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing)
1470 1x mailer rules (sender qualification)
1471 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification)
1472 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification)
1473 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification)
1474 5x mailer subroutines (general)
1475 6x mailer subroutines (general)
1476 7x mailer subroutines (general)
1477 8x reserved
1478 90 Mailertable host stripping
1479 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail)
1480 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail)
1481 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail)
1482 99 Guaranteed null (for debugging)
1483
1484
1485MAILERS
1486
1487 0 local, prog local and program mailers
1488 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel
1489 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
1490 3 netnews Network News delivery
1491 4 fax Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software
1492 5 mail11 DECnet mailer
1493
1494
1495MACROS
1496
1497 A
1498 B Bitnet Relay
1499 C DECnet Relay
1500 D The local domain -- usually not needed
1501 E
1502 F FAX Relay
1503 G
1504 H mail Hub (for mail clusters)
1505 I
1506 J
1507 K
1508 L Luser Relay
1509 M Masquerade (who I claim to be)
1510 N
1511 O
1512 P
1513 Q
1514 R Relay (for unqualified names)
1515 S Smart Host
1516 T
1517 U my UUCP name (if I have a UUCP connection)
1518 V UUCP Relay (class V hosts)
1519 W UUCP Relay (class W hosts)
1520 X UUCP Relay (class X hosts)
1521 Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts)
1522 Z Version number
1523
1524
1525CLASSES
1526
1527 A
1528 B
1529 C
1530 D
1531 E addresses that should not seem to come from $M
1532 F hosts we forward for
1533 G
1534 H
1535 I
1536 J
1537 K
1538 L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R
1539 M
1540 N
1541 O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names)
1542 P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, DECNET, FAX, UUCP, etc.
1543 Q
1544 R
1545 S
1546 T
1547 U locally connected UUCP hosts
1548 V UUCP hosts connected to relay $V
1549 W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W
1550 X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X
1551 Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts
1552 Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts
1553 . the class containing only a dot
1554
1555
1556M4 DIVERSIONS
1557
1558 1 Local host detection and resolution
1559 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions
1560 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions
1561 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions
1562 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R)
1563 6 local configuration (at top of file)
1564 7 mailer definitions
1565 8
1566 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2)
1567