141139Sbostic/*- 2*57985Seric * @(#)READ_ME 6.5 (Berkeley) 02/14/93 336585Sbostic */ 410221Seric 557210SericTHIS IS AN ALPHA VERSION OF SENDMAIL. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING IT 657210SericIN A HEAVY PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. We've been running it (in various 757210Sericforms) at Berkeley for several months, but our environment is far from 857210Sericgeneral. In particular, it hasn't been heavily tested for non-SMTP 957210Sericenvironments. The good news is that most of the changes have been 1057210SericInternet-related, and that has been tested. 1157210Seric 1257210SericREPORT ANY BUGS to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU. 1357210Seric 1457210SericTHIS IS COPYRIGHTED CODE. BY COMPILING AND RUNNING THIS CODE YOU AGREE 1557210Sericto upgrade to the production release when it comes out. You understand 1657210Sericthat we hope this will be by March, but if there are serious problems 1757210Sericit may be longer than that. 1857210Seric 1957979SericYou don't have to install mail.local to run the new version of sendmail. 2057979SericMany versions of /bin/mail take a "-d" flag or do local delivery already. 2157979SericIn particular, mail.local is largely specific to 4.4 BSD, and will not 2257979Sericbe easy to compile elsewhere. It was written by Keith Bostic, not myself, 2357979Sericand was not intended for the "general case". 2457210Seric 2557979SericThere are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are 2657979Sericavailable via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil 2757979Seric(directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC), 2857979Sericnisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu 2957979Seric(info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending 3057979Sericemail to one of: 3157979Seric 3257979Seric mail-server@nisc.sri.com 3357979Seric Put "send rfcNNN" in message body 3457979Seric nis-info@nis.nsf.net 3557979Seric Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body 3657979Seric sendrfc@jvnc.net 3757979Seric Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line 3857979Seric 3957979SericImportant RFCs for electronic mail are: 4057979Seric 4157979Seric RFC821 SMTP protocol 4257979Seric RFC822 Mail header format 4357979Seric RFC974 MX routing 4457979Seric RFC976 UUCP mail format 4557979Seric RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974) 4657979Seric 4757979SericOther standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly 4857979Sericrelevant to sendmail) are: 4957979Seric 5057979Seric RFC931 Authentication server 5157979Seric RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400 5257979Seric RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822) 5357979Seric 5457979SericUnfortunately, for a variety of reasons the Makefiles are for the new 5557979SericBerkeley "make" and will not work on the old, traditional make. I urge 5657979Sericyou to get this make from Net2 (available on many public FTP archives). 5757979SericFailing that, some directories have a "Makefile.dist" that will work on 5857979Sericolder versions of make (but don't have the niceties included). 5957979Seric 6057979SericSimilar comments apply to the man pages -- they use the new Berkeley 6157979Seric-mandoc macros instead of the -man macros. You can get these from 6257979SericNet2 as well. 6357979Seric 6457979SericIF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT **** 6557979Sericuse the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of 6657979Sericnefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have 6757979Sericto go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public 68*57985SericFTP from vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file pub/db.tar.Z. This software 6957979Sericis highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much 7057979Sericfaster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will 7157979Sericalso probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include 7257979Sericto the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly. 7357979Seric 7457979SericThe structure of this directory tree is: 7557979Seric 7657210Sericcf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are 7757210Seric different than what you've seen before. They are a 7857210Seric fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail 7957210Seric (since they use new features). 8057210Sericdoc Documentation. If you are getting source, read 8157210Seric op.me -- it's long, but worth it. 8257210Sericmail.local Source for mail.local(8), a local delivery program. 8357210Seric Older versions of sendmail called /bin/mail with a 8457210Seric special -d flag to mean "really deliver this mail"; 8557210Seric this is a completely new (and much smaller) program 8657210Seric that does absolutely nothing but deliver local mail. 8757635Seric THIS IS SPECIFIC TO 4.4BSD, and is not under my 8857635Seric control. 8957210Sericmailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of 9057210Seric sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that, 9157210Seric beware. This isn't all that useful. 9257210Sericmakemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $) 9357210Seric construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective. 9457210Seric It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably 9557210Seric expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats 9657210Seric using sed scripts before this program will like them. 9757210Seric But it should be functionally complete. 9857210Sericpraliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file. 9957210Seric It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley 10057210Seric DB format (which we are using). 10157210Sericrmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery 10257210Seric agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by 10357635Seric other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of 10457635Seric rmail are probably deficient. 10554987Sericsrc Source for the sendmail program itself. 106