141139Sbostic/*- 2*57210Seric * @(#)READ_ME 4.6 (Berkeley) 12/18/92 336585Sbostic */ 410221Seric 5*57210SericTHIS IS AN ALPHA VERSION OF SENDMAIL. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING IT 6*57210SericIN A HEAVY PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. We've been running it (in various 7*57210Sericforms) at Berkeley for several months, but our environment is far from 8*57210Sericgeneral. In particular, it hasn't been heavily tested for non-SMTP 9*57210Sericenvironments. The good news is that most of the changes have been 10*57210SericInternet-related, and that has been tested. 11*57210Seric 12*57210SericREPORT ANY BUGS to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU. 13*57210Seric 14*57210SericTHIS IS COPYRIGHTED CODE. BY COMPILING AND RUNNING THIS CODE YOU AGREE 15*57210Sericto upgrade to the production release when it comes out. You understand 16*57210Sericthat we hope this will be by March, but if there are serious problems 17*57210Sericit may be longer than that. 18*57210Seric 19*57210SericThe structure of this directory is: 20*57210Seric 21*57210Sericcf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are 22*57210Seric different than what you've seen before. They are a 23*57210Seric fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail 24*57210Seric (since they use new features). 25*57210Sericdoc Documentation. If you are getting source, read 26*57210Seric op.me -- it's long, but worth it. 27*57210Sericmail.local Source for mail.local(8), a local delivery program. 28*57210Seric Older versions of sendmail called /bin/mail with a 29*57210Seric special -d flag to mean "really deliver this mail"; 30*57210Seric this is a completely new (and much smaller) program 31*57210Seric that does absolutely nothing but deliver local mail. 32*57210Sericmailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of 33*57210Seric sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that, 34*57210Seric beware. This isn't all that useful. 35*57210Sericmakemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $) 36*57210Seric construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective. 37*57210Seric It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably 38*57210Seric expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats 39*57210Seric using sed scripts before this program will like them. 40*57210Seric But it should be functionally complete. 41*57210Sericpraliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file. 42*57210Seric It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley 43*57210Seric DB format (which we are using). 44*57210Sericrmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery 45*57210Seric agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by 46*57210Seric other non-socket oriented mailers. 4754987Sericsrc Source for the sendmail program itself. 48*57210Seric 49*57210SericIF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT **** 50*57210Sericuse the version that was on the Net/2 tape -- it has a number of 51*57210Sericnefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have 52*57210Sericto go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public 53*57210SericFTP from okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file pub/db.tar.Z. This software 54*57210Sericis highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much 55*57210Sericfaster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. 56