151220Seric 251220Seric 357246Seric NEW SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILES 451220Seric 557246Seric Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU> 651220Seric 7*68206Seric @(#)README 8.45 (Berkeley) 01/26/95 851220Seric 951220Seric 1057246SericThis document describes the sendmail configuration files being used 1167469Sericat Berkeley. These use features in the new (R8) sendmail; they will 1267469Sericnot work on other versions. 1351220Seric 1457246SericThese configuration files are probably not as general as previous 1565957Sericversions, and don't handle as many of the weird cases automagically. 1657246SericI was able to simplify by them for two reasons. First, the network 1757246Serichas become more consistent -- for example, at this point, everyone 1857246Sericon the internet is supposed to be running a name server, so hacks to 1957246Serichandle NIC-registered hosts can go away. Second, I assumed that a 2057246Sericsubdomain would be running SMTP internally -- UUCP is presumed to be 2157246Serica long-haul protocol. I realize that this is not universal, but it 2257246Sericdoes describe the vast majority of sites with which I am familiar, 2357246Sericincluding those outside the US. 2451220Seric 2565957SericOf course, the downside of this is that if you do live in a weird 2665957Sericworld, things are going to get weirder for you. I'm sorry about that, 2757246Sericbut at the time we at Berkeley had a problem, and it seemed like the 2857246Sericright thing to do. 2951220Seric 3057247SericThis package requires a post-V7 version of m4; if you are running the 3157247Seric4.2bsd, SysV.2, or 7th Edition version, I suggest finding a friend with 3257247Serica newer version. You can m4-expand on their system, then run locally. 3365002SericSunOS's /usr/5bin/m4 or BSD-Net/2's m4 both work. GNU m4 version 1.1 3465002Sericalso works. Unfortunately, I'm told that the M4 on BSDI 1.0 doesn't 3565002Sericwork -- you'll have to use a Net/2 or GNU version. 3651220Seric 3758284SericIF YOU DON'T HAVE A BERKELEY MAKE, don't despair! Just run 3864371Seric"m4 foo.mc > foo.cf" -- that should be all you need. There is also 3964371Serica fairly crude (but functional) Makefile.dist that works on the 4064371Sericold version of make. 4158284Seric 4258284SericTo get started, you may want to look at tcpproto.mc (for TCP-only 4364324Sericsites), uucpproto.mc (for UUCP-only sites), and clientproto.mc (for 4464324Sericclusters of clients using a single mail host). Others are versions 4558284Sericthat we use at Berkeley, although not all are in current use. For 4658284Sericexample, ucbarpa has gone away, but I've left ucbarpa.mc in because 4758284Sericit demonstrates some interesting techniques. 4858284Seric 4957246SericI'm not pretending that this README describes everything that these 5057246Sericconfiguration files can do; clever people can probably tweak them 5157246Sericto great effect. But it should get you started. 5257246Seric 5365509Seric******************************************************************* 5465509Seric*** BE SURE YOU CUSTOMIZE THESE FILES! They have some *** 5565509Seric*** Berkeley-specific assumptions built in, such as the name *** 5665509Seric*** of our UUCP-relay. You'll want to create your own domain *** 5765509Seric*** description, and use that in place of domain/Berkeley.m4. *** 5865509Seric******************************************************************* 5958087Seric 6065509Seric 6157246Seric+--------------------------+ 6257246Seric| INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE | 6357246Seric+--------------------------+ 6457246Seric 6557246SericConfiguration files are contained in the subdirectory "cf", with a 6657246Sericsuffix ".mc". They must be run through "m4" to produce a ".cf" file. 6757246Seric 6851220SericLet's examine a typical .mc file (cf/cs-exposed.mc): 6951220Seric 7051220Seric divert(-1) 7151220Seric # 7251220Seric # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman 7351220Seric # Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California. 7451220Seric # All rights reserved. 7551220Seric # 7651220Seric # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted 7751220Seric # provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are 7851220Seric # duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, 7951220Seric # advertising materials, and other materials related to such 8051220Seric # distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed 8151220Seric # by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the 8251220Seric # University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived 8351220Seric # from this software without specific prior written permission. 8451220Seric # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR 8551220Seric # IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED 8651220Seric # WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 8751220Seric # 8851220Seric 8957246SericThe divert(-1) will delete the crud in the resulting output file. 9057247SericThe copyright notice is what your lawyers require. Our lawyers require 9157246Sericthe one that I've included in my files. A copyleft is a copyright by 9257246Sericanother name. 9351220Seric 9457246SericThe next line MUST be 9557246Seric 9651220Seric include(`../m4/cf.m4') 9751220Seric 9857246SericThis will pull in the M4 macros you will need to make sense of 9957246Sericeverything else. As the saying goes, don't think about it, just 10057246Sericdo it. If you don't do it, don't bother reading the rest of this 10157246Sericfile. 10251220Seric 10356778Seric VERSIONID(`<SCCS or RCS version id>') 10451220Seric 10551220SericVERSIONID is a macro that stuffs the version information into the 10651220Sericresulting file. We use SCCS; you could use RCS, something else, or 10757246Sericomit it completely. This is not the same as the version id included 10857246Sericin SMTP greeting messages -- this is defined in m4/version.m4. 10951220Seric 11051268Seric DOMAIN(cs.exposed) 11151220Seric 11251220SericThis example exposes the host inside of the CS subdomain -- that is, 11351220Sericit doesn't try to hide the name of the workstation to the outside 11451220Sericworld. Changing this to DOMAIN(cs.hidden) would have made outgoing 11551220Sericmessages refer to "<username>@CS.Berkeley.EDU" instead of using the 11663857Sericlocal hostname. Internally this is effected by using 11757246Seric"MASQUERADE_AS(CS.Berkeley.EDU)". 11851220Seric 11951268Seric MAILER(smtp) 12051220Seric 12151309SericThese describe the mailers used at the default CS site site. The 12251309Sericlocal mailer is always included automatically. 12351220Seric 12458087Seric 12557246Seric+--------+ 12657246Seric| OSTYPE | 12757246Seric+--------+ 12857246Seric 12951220SericNote that cf/cs-exposed.mc omits an OSTYPE macro -- this assumes 13051220Sericdefault Computer Science Division environment. There are several 13157247Sericexplicit environments available: bsd4.3, bsd4.4, hpux, irix, osf1, 13257247Sericriscos4.5, sunos3.5, sunos4.1, and ultrix4.1. These change things 13357247Sericlike the location of the alias file and queue directory. Some of 13457247Sericthese files are identical to one another. 13551220Seric 13657246SericOperating system definitions are easy to write. They may define 13757246Sericthe following variables (everything defaults, so an ostype file 13857246Sericmay be empty). 13951220Seric 14057246SericALIAS_FILE [/etc/aliases] The location of the text version 14159761Seric of the alias file(s). It can be a comma-separated 14266790Seric list of names (but be sure you quote values with 14366790Seric comments in them -- for example, use 14466790Seric define(`ALIAS_FILE', `a,b') 14566790Seric to get "a" and "b" both listed as alias files; 14666790Seric otherwise the define() primitive only sees "a"). 14757246SericHELP_FILE [/usr/lib/sendmail.hf] The name of the file 14857246Seric containing information printed in response to 14957246Seric the SMTP HELP command. 15057246SericQUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/mqueue] The directory containing 15157246Seric queue files. 15257246SericSTATUS_FILE [/etc/sendmail.st] The file containing status 15357246Seric information. 15458087SericLOCAL_MAILER_PATH [/bin/mail] The program used to deliver local mail. 15564153SericLOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS [rmn] The flags used by the local mailer. The 15664153Seric flags lsDFM are always included. 15763761SericLOCAL_MAILER_ARGS [mail -d $u] The arguments passed to deliver local 15863761Seric mail. 15958087SericLOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email. 16063791SericLOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu] The flags used by the shell mailer. The 16163791Seric flags lsDFM are always included. 16263791SericLOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog" 16363791Seric mail. 16467989SericLOCAL_SHELL_DIR [$z:/] The directory search path in which the 16567989Seric shell should run. 16658087SericUSENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program 16758087Seric used to submit news. 16858087SericUSENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rlsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer. 16958087SericUSENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the 17058087Seric usenet mailer. 17165911SericUSENET_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size of messages that will 17265911Seric be accepted by the usenet mailer. 17363857SericSMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default 17467915Seric flags are `mDFMUX' for all SMTP-based mailers; the 17567915Seric "esmtp" mailer adds `a' and "smtp8" adds `8'. 17665911SericSMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will 17767915Seric be transported using the smtp, smtp8, or esmtp 17867915Seric mailers. 17967915SericSMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp mailer. 18067915Seric About the only reason you would want to change this 18167915Seric would be to change the default port. 18267915SericESMTP_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the esmtp mailer. 18367915SericSMTP8_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the smtp8 mailer. 18467915SericRELAY_MAILER_ARGS [IPC $h] The arguments passed to the relay mailer. 18563857SericUUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default 18663857Seric flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for suucp mailer, minus 18763857Seric `U' for uucp-dom mailer). 18868057SericUUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$g -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments 18963761Seric passed to the UUCP mailer. 19063791SericUUCP_MAX_SIZE [100000] The maximum size message accepted for 19163791Seric transmission by the UUCP mailers. 19265911SericFAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to 19365911Seric submit FAX messages. 19465911SericFAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for 19565911Seric transmission by FAX. 19667934SericPOP_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/mh/spop] The pathname of the POP mailer. 19767934SericPOP_MAILER_FLAGS [Penu] Flags added to POP mailer. Flags "lsDFM" 19867934Seric are always added. 19967934SericPOP_MAILER_ARGS [pop $u] The arguments passed to the POP mailer. 20067942SericPROCMAIL_MAILER_FLAGS [Shu] Flags added to Procmail mailer. Flags 20167942Seric ``DFMmn'' are always set. 20267942SericPROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS [procmail -m $h $f $u] The arguments passed to 20367942Seric the Procmail mailer. 20457246Seric 20557246Seric+---------+ 20657246Seric| DOMAINS | 20757246Seric+---------+ 20857246Seric 20957246SericYou will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one 21057246Sericfile, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, our Berkeley 21157246Sericdomain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished 21257246Serichosts: 21357246Seric 21457246SericUUCP_RELAY The host that will forward UUCP-addressed email. 21557246Seric If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly 21664028Seric connected. 21757246SericBITNET_RELAY The host that will forward BITNET-addressed email. 21857246Seric If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work. 21957246SericLOCAL_RELAY The site that will handle unqualified names -- that 22057246Seric is, names with out an @domain extension. If not set, 22157246Seric they are assumed to belong on this machine. This 22257246Seric allows you to have a central site to store a 22357246Seric company- or department-wide alias database. This 22457246Seric only works at small sites, and there are better 22564028Seric methods. 22667915SericLUSER_RELAY The site that will handle lusers -- that is, apparently 22767915Seric local names that aren't local accounts or aliases. 22857246Seric 22967915SericAny of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the 23064028Sericmailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``suucp'' and the hostname 23164028Sericis the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a 23264028Seric``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'', 23364153Serica variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX 23464153Sericrecord matching your domain, you probably want to define these to 23564153Serichave a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back 23664153Sericto yourself. 23764028Seric 23857246SericThe domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed 23957982Seric(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts 24057982Sericat your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use 24157982SericMASQUERADE_AS here. 24257246Seric 24358408SericYou do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a 24458408Sericsingle machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than 24558408Sericit's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent 24658408Sericknowledge" into one place. 24758408Seric 24857246Seric+---------+ 24957246Seric| MAILERS | 25057246Seric+---------+ 25157246Seric 25251220SericThere are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous 25351220Sericversion, owing mostly to a simpler world. 25451220Seric 25551220Sericlocal The local and prog mailers. You will almost always 25651220Seric need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL 25757247Seric your mail to another site. This mailer is included 25857247Seric automatically. 25951220Seric 26051220Sericsmtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does 26151220Seric not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other 26251220Seric such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is 26363761Seric running the name server. This file actually defines 26467915Seric four mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to 26563761Seric other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other 26667915Seric servers, "smtp8" to do SMTP to other servers without 26767915Seric converting 8-bit data to MIME (essentially, this is 26867915Seric your statement that you know the other end is 8-bit 26967915Seric clean even if it doesn't say so), and "relay" for 27067915Seric transmission to our RELAY_HOST, LUSER_RELAY, or 27167915Seric MAILER_HUB. 27251220Seric 27351220Sericuucp The Unix-to-Unix Copy Program mailer. Actually, this 27467471Seric defines two mailers, "uucp-old" (a.k.a. "uucp") and 27567471Seric "uucp-new" (a.k.a. "suucp"). The latter is for when you 27667471Seric know that the UUCP mailer at the other end can handle 27767471Seric multiple recipients in one transfer. If the smtp mailer 27867471Seric is also included in your configuration, two other mailers 27967471Seric ("uucp-dom" and "uucp-uudom") are also defined. When you 28067471Seric include the uucp mailer, sendmail looks for all names in 28165218Seric the $=U class and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all 28265218Seric names in the $=Y class are sent to uucp-new; and all 28365218Seric names in the $=Z class are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that 28457246Seric this is a function of what version of rmail runs on 28557246Seric the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control. 28665218Seric See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more 28765218Seric detail. 28851220Seric 28958087Sericusenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified, 29058087Seric an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all 29158087Seric local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the 29258087Seric ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups, 29358087Seric and may be considered a security problem. 29458087Seric 29558363Sericfax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based 29658363Seric on Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software. For more information, 29758363Seric see below. 29858087Seric 29965148Sericpop Post Office Protocol. 30058363Seric 30167942Sericprocmail An interface to procmail (does not come with sendmail). 30267942Seric This is designed to be used in mailertables. For example, 30367942Seric a common question is "how do I forward all mail for a given 30467942Seric domain to a single person?". If you have this mailer 30567942Seric defined, you could set up a mailertable reading: 30667942Seric 30767942Seric host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com 30867942Seric 30967942Seric with the file /etc/procmailrcs/host.com reading: 31067942Seric 31167942Seric :0 # forward mail for host.com 31267942Seric ! -oi -f $1 person@other.host 31367942Seric 31467942Seric This would arrange for (anything)@host.com to be sent 31567942Seric to person@other.host. Within the procmail script, $1 is 31667942Seric the name of the sender and $2 is the name of the recipient. 31767942Seric If you use this with FEATURE(local_procmail), the FEATURE 31867942Seric should be listed first. 31967942Seric 32067929SericThe local mailer accepts addresses of the form "user+detail", where 32167929Sericthe "+detail" is not used for mailbox matching but is available 32267942Sericto certain local mail programs (in particular, see FEATURE(local_procmail)). 32367929SericFor example, "eric", "eric+sendmail", and "eric+sww" all indicate 32467929Sericthe same user, but additional arguments <null>, "sendmail", and "sww" 32567929Sericmay be provided for use in sorting mail. 32665148Seric 32767929Seric 32857246Seric+----------+ 32957246Seric| FEATURES | 33057246Seric+----------+ 33151268Seric 33257246SericSpecial features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For 33357246Sericexample, the .mc line: 33457246Seric 33557246Seric FEATURE(use_cw_file) 33657246Seric 33757246Serictells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/sendmail.cw 33858782Sericfile to get values for class $=w. The FEATURE may contain a single 33958782Sericoptional parameter -- for example: 34057246Seric 34158782Seric FEATURE(mailertable, dbm /usr/lib/mailertable) 34258782Seric 34358782SericAvailable features are: 34458782Seric 34557246Sericuse_cw_file Read the file /etc/sendmail.cw file to get alternate 34657246Seric names for this host. This might be used if you were 34757246Seric on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other 34857246Seric hosts. If the set is static, just including the line 34957246Seric "Cw<name1> <name2> ..." is probably superior. 35058408Seric The actual filename can be overridden by redefining 35158408Seric confCW_FILE. 35264324Seric 35358087Sericredirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with 35458087Seric a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message. 35558087Seric If this is set, you can alias people who have left 35658087Seric to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended. 35764324Seric 35858284Sericnouucp Don't do anything special with UUCP addresses at all. 35964324Seric 36059080Sericnocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification. 36159080Seric This would generally only be used by sites that only 36259080Seric act as mail gateways or which have user agents that do 36364028Seric full canonification themselves. You may also want to 36464028Seric use "define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to 36564028Seric turn off the usual resolver options that do a similar 36664028Seric thing. 36764324Seric 36867917Sericstickyhost If set, email sent to "user@local.host" are marked 36958526Seric as "sticky" -- that is, the local addresses aren't 37058526Seric matched against UDB and don't go through ruleset 5. 37167915Seric This is used if you want a set up where "user" is 37267915Seric not necessarily the same as "user@local.host", e.g., 37367915Seric to make a distinct domain-wide namespace. Prior to 37467915Seric 8.7 this was the default, and notsticky was used to 37567915Seric turn this off. 37664324Seric 37758782Sericmailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override 37858782Seric routing for particular domains. The argument of the 37958782Seric FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified, 38058782Seric the definition used is: 38164164Seric hash -o /etc/mailertable 38263761Seric Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names 38363761Seric or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example, 38463761Seric "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU". 38563761Seric Values must be of the form: 38658782Seric mailer:domain 38763761Seric where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain" 38863761Seric is where to send the message. These maps are not 38963761Seric reflected into the message header. 39064324Seric 39163761Sericdomaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide 39267451Seric domain name mapping. Use of this should really be 39367451Seric limited to your own domains. It may be useful if you 39467451Seric change names (e.g., your company changes names from 39567451Seric oldname.com to newname.com). The argument of the 39667451Seric FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified, 39767451Seric the definition used is: 39864164Seric hash -o /etc/domaintable 39967451Seric The key in this table is the domain name; the value is 40067451Seric the new (fully qualified) domain. Anything in the 40163761Seric domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this 40263761Seric is done in ruleset 3. 40364324Seric 40459034Sericbitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into 40559034Seric internet addresses. The table can be built using the 40664153Seric bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers. 40759034Seric The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if 40859034Seric none is specified, the definition used is: 40964164Seric hash -o /etc/bitdomain.db 41059034Seric Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding 41159034Seric internet hostname. 41264324Seric 41359037Sericuucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition 41459037Seric is: 41564164Seric hash -o /etc/uudomain.db 41659037Seric At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this 41759037Seric database. 41864324Seric 41960263Sericalways_add_domain 42060263Seric Include the local host domain even on locally delivered 42160263Seric mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already 42260263Seric present. 42364324Seric 42463761Sericallmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this 42563761Seric feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade 42663761Seric as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get 42763761Seric the local hostname. Although this may be right for 42863761Seric ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example, 42963761Seric if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will 43063761Seric find that alias and send to all members, but send the 43163761Seric message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that 43263761Seric alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this 43363761Seric feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE 43463761Seric namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the 43563761Seric local entries. 43664324Seric 43764153Sericnodns We aren't running DNS at our site (for example, 43864153Seric we are UUCP-only connected). It's hard to consider 43964153Seric this a "feature", but hey, it had to go somewhere. 44057246Seric 44164324Sericnullclient This is a special case -- it creates a stripped down 44264324Seric configuration file containing nothing but support for 44364394Seric forwarding all mail to a central hub via a local 44464394Seric SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that 44564394Seric hub. 44664394Seric 44764394Seric The only other feature that should be used in conjunction 44864394Seric with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to 44964394Seric be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally 45064394Seric they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which 45164394Seric defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers 45264394Seric should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done. 45357246Seric 45467942Sericlocal_procmail Use procmail as the local mailer. This mailer can 45567929Seric make use of the "user+indicator@local.host" syntax; 45667929Seric normally the +indicator is just tossed, but by default 45767929Seric it is passed as the -a argument to procmail. The 45867929Seric argument to this feature is the pathname of procmail, 45967929Seric which defaults to /usr/local/bin/procmail. 46064324Seric 461*68206Sericbestmx_is_local Accept mail as though locally addressed for any host that 462*68206Seric lists us as the best possible MX record. This generates 463*68206Seric additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to 464*68206Seric medium traffic hosts. 46567929Seric 466*68206Seric 46757246Seric+-------+ 46857246Seric| HACKS | 46957246Seric+-------+ 47057246Seric 47157246SericSome things just can't be called features. To make this clear, 47257247Sericthey go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK 47357246Sericmacro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release 47457246Sericincludes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes 47557246Sericsendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU; 47657246Sericthis is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into 47757246Sericsubdomains. 47857246Seric 47958087Seric 48057246Seric+--------------------+ 48157246Seric| SITE CONFIGURATION | 48257246Seric+--------------------+ 48357246Seric 48468057Seric ***************************************************** 48568057Seric * This section is really obsolete, and is preserved * 48668057Seric * only for back compatibility. You should plan on * 48768057Seric * using mailertables for new installations. In * 48868057Seric * particular, it doesn't work for the newer forms * 48968057Seric * of UUCP mailers, such as uucp-uudom. * 49068057Seric ***************************************************** 49168057Seric 49257246SericComplex sites will need more local configuration information, such as 49357246Sericlists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more 49457246Serictricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc. 49557246Seric 49666336SericIf your host is known by several different names, you need to augment 49766336Sericthe $=w class. This is a list of names by which you are known, and 49866336Sericanything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be 49966336Serictreated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create 50066336Sericthe file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per 50166336Sericline), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the 50266336Sericline: 50366336Seric 50466336Seric Cw alias.host.name 50566336Seric 50666336Sericat the end of that file. See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example. 50766336SericBe sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a 50866336Sericshort name. 50966336Seric 51057246SericThe SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent 51157246Sericconfiguration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For 51257246Sericexample, the line 51357246Seric 51457246Seric SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U) 51557246Seric 51657246Sericreads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The 51757246Sericsecond parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since 51866336Sericit is locally connected, and hence a UUCP hostname). The third 51966336Sericparameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in 52066336Sericthis case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store 52166336Sericthe host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads 52257246Seric 52357246Seric SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W) 52457246Seric 52557246SericThis says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites 52657246Sericconnected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. The $=W class will be used to 52766336Sericstore this list, and $W is defined to be ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, that 52866336Sericis, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa 52966336Sericare connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left 53057246Sericthis out-of-date configuration file around to demonstrate how you 53157246Sericmight do this.] 53257246Seric 53366336SericNote that the case of SITECONFIG with a third parameter of ``U'' is 53466336Sericspecial; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the 53566336Sericlocal site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name 53666336Sericis entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP. 53766336Seric 53857246SericThe siteconfig file (e.g., siteconfig/uucp.ucbvax.m4) contains nothing 53957246Sericmore than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For 54057246Sericexample: 54157246Seric 54257246Seric SITE(cnmat) 54357246Seric SITE(sgi olympus) 54457246Seric 54557246SericThe second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the 54657246Sericsame line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at 54757246Sericleast in the same company). 54857246Seric 54958087Seric 55065218Seric+--------------------+ 55165218Seric| USING UUCP MAILERS | 55265218Seric+--------------------+ 55365218Seric 55465218SericIt's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc 55565218Sericnature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed 55665218Sericfor domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites. 55765218Seric 55865218SericThere are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to 55965218Sericuse is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at 56065218Sericthe other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that 56165218Sericdefine what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you 56265218Sericshould do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have 56365218Sericto change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages 56465218Sericpeople from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid 56565218SericUUCP, please do. 56665218Seric 56765218SericThe major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a 56865218Sericnon-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other 56965218Sericend will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the 57065218Sericother end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses 57165218Sericdon't work entirely properly. 57265218Seric 57365218SericThe four mailers are: 57465218Seric 57565218Seric uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp") 57665218Seric This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of 57765218Seric sending messages accros UUCP connections. It does bangify 57865218Seric everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's 57965218Seric address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can 58065218Seric only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of 58165218Seric time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all 58265218Seric possible. 58365218Seric 58465218Seric uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp") 58565218Seric The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail 58665218Seric command you can specify several recipients. It still has a 58765218Seric lot of other problems. 58865218Seric 58965218Seric uucp-dom 59065218Seric This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses. 59167471Seric Basically, it uses the SMTP mailer rewriting rules. This mailer 59267471Seric is only included if MAILER(smtp) is also specified. 59365218Seric 59465218Seric Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require 59565218Seric bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use 59665218Seric domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope 59765218Seric shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So.... 59865218Seric 59965218Seric uucp-uudom 60065218Seric This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses) 60165218Seric and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the 60265218Seric envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the 60365218Seric local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address 60465218Seric at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name 60565218Seric instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of 60667471Seric "some.dom.ain!wolf"). This is also included only if MAILER(smtp) 60767471Seric is also specified. 60865218Seric 60965218SericExamples: 61065218Seric 61165218SericWe are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"). The 61265218Sericfollowing summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers. 61365218Seric 61465218SericMailer sender rewriting in the envelope 61565218Seric------ ------ ------------------------- 61665218Sericuucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf 61765218Sericuucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 61865218Sericuucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf 61965218Seric 62065218Sericuucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf 62165218Sericuucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net 62265218Sericuucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf 62365218Seric 62465218Sericuucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf 62565218Sericuucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr 62665218Sericuucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf 62765218Seric 62865218SericIf you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want 62965218Sericto convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will 63065218Sericdo it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example, 63165218Sericif you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo), 63265218Sericthe heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to 63365218Sericthis address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it 63465218Sericwill not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain 63565218Sericfeature. 63665218Seric 63765218Seric 63857246Seric+-------------------+ 63957246Seric| TWEAKING RULESETS | 64057246Seric+-------------------+ 64157246Seric 64251268SericFor more complex configurations, you can define special rules. 64351268SericThe macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing 64451268Sericthe names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header. 64551268Seric 64651268SericA common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using 64751268Sericthe UUCPSMTP macro. For example: 64851268Seric 64951268Seric LOCAL_RULE_3 65051268Seric UUCPSMTP(decvax, decvax.dec.com) 65151268Seric UUCPSMTP(research, research.att.com) 65251268Seric 65351268Sericwill cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user" 65451268Sericto be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com" 65551268Sericrespectively. 65651268Seric 65765957SericThis could also be used to look up hosts in a database map: 65857246Seric 65957246Seric LOCAL_RULE_3 66057246Seric R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3 66157246Seric 66257246SericThis map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below. 66357246Seric 66451268SericSimilarly, LOCAL_RULE_0 can be used to introduce new parsing rules. 66551268SericFor example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept 66651309Sericvia MX records. For example, you might have: 66751268Seric 66851309Seric LOCAL_RULE_0 66965986Seric R$+ <@ host.dom.ain.> $#uucp $@ cnmat $: $1 < @ host.dom.ain.> 67051309Seric 67151309SericYou would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU 67251309Sericpointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on 67351309Sericusing UUCP. 67451309Seric 67558681SericYou can also tweak rulesets 1 and 2 using LOCAL_RULE_1 and LOCAL_RULE_2. 67658681SericThese rulesets are normally empty. 67758681Seric 67857246SericA similar macro is LOCAL_CONFIG. This introduces lines added after the 67957246Sericboilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to 68057945Sericdeclare local database maps or whatever. For example: 68151268Seric 68257246Seric LOCAL_CONFIG 68357246Seric Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db 68457246Seric Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname 68551220Seric 68658087Seric 68757246Seric+---------------------------+ 68857246Seric| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING | 68957246Seric+---------------------------+ 69057246Seric 69157246SericYou can have your host masquerade as another using 69257246Seric 69357246Seric MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain) 69457246Seric 69565957SericThis causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the 69657246Sericindicated domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as one 69765957Sericof one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would 69857246Sericchoose to masquerade as an MIT site). 69957246Seric 70064153SericThe masquerade name is not normally canonified, so it is important 70164153Sericthat it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a 70264153SericCNAME. 70364153Seric 70457246Sericthere are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their 70557246Sericinternal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. 70657246SericRoot is an example. You can add users to this list using 70757246Seric 70857246Seric EXPOSED_USER(usernames) 70957246Seric 71057246SericThis adds users to class E; you could also use something like 71157246Seric 71257246Seric FE/etc/sendmail.cE 71357246Seric 71457246SericYou can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names 71557246Sericwithout @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central 71657246Sericemail server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have 71757246Sericto have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using 71857246Seric 71958071Seric define(`LOCAL_RELAY', mailer:hostname) 72057246Seric 72158071SericThe ``mailer:'' can be omitted, in which case the mailer defaults to 72258071Seric"smtp". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps 72358071Sericbecause of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be 72458071Sericlocally aliased. You can add entries to this list using 72557246Seric 72657246Seric LOCAL_USER(usernames) 72757246Seric 72857246SericThis adds users to class L; you could also use something like 72957246Seric 73057246Seric FL/etc/sendmail.cL 73157246Seric 73264153SericIf you want all incoming mail sent to a centralized hub, as for a 73364153Sericshared /var/spool/mail scheme, use 73457591Seric 73558071Seric define(`MAIL_HUB', mailer:hostname) 73657591Seric 73758071SericAgain, ``mailer:'' defaults to "smtp". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY 73866047Sericand MAIL_HUB, unqualified names will be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and 73966047Sericother local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. Names in $=L will be 74066047Sericdelivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or .forward files for them. 74166047Seric 74266047SericFor example, if are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU, the following 74358071Sericcombinations of settings will have the indicated effects: 74457591Seric 74557591Sericemail sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU 74657591Seric 74757591SericLOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally) 74857591Sericmail.CS.Berkeley.EDU 74957591Seric 75057591SericMAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 75157591Sericmammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 75257591Seric 75357591SericBoth LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU 75457591SericMAIL_HUB set as above 75557591Seric 75664153SericIf you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define 75764153SericSMART_HOST as well. Briefly: 75858071Seric 75964153Seric LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric"). 76064153Seric MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the 76164153Seric local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU"). 76264153Seric SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts. 76364153Seric 76464153SericHowever, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, and 76564153SericFAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you really want 76664153Sericabsolutely everything to go to a single central site you will need to 76764153Sericunset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a minimal 76864153Sericconfig file that does this. 76964153Seric 77064153Seric 77158071Seric+-------------------------------+ 77258071Seric| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS | 77358071Seric+-------------------------------+ 77458071Seric 77558071SericThese configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based 77658071Sericsites. I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or 77758071SericUUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net 77858071Sericconnected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is one 77958071Serichook to handle some special cases. 78058071Seric 78158071SericYou can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax 78258071Sericusing: 78358071Seric 78458071Seric define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname) 78558071Seric 78664028SericIn this case, the ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". Any messages that 78758071Sericcan't be handled using the usual UUCP rules are passed to this host. 78858071Seric 78958071SericIf you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside 79058071Sericworld via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules. 79158071SericFor example: 79258071Seric 79358071Seric define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet) 79458071Seric LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 79563761Seric R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3 79658071Seric 79758071SericThis will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via 79858071SericSMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet. 79963761SericIf you have FEATURE(nocanonify), you may need to omit the dots after 80063761Sericthe $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is 80163761Sericnot otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to 80263761Sericuse: 80358071Seric 80463761Seric define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com) 80563761Seric LOCAL_NET_CONFIG 80663761Seric R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3 80758071Seric 80863761SericThat is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup; 80963761Sericanything else goes through SMART_HOST. 81063761Seric 81164153SericIf you are not running DNS at all, it is important to use 81264153SericFEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting 81364153Sericfor the name server to come up. 81463761Seric 81564153Seric 81664259Seric+-----------+ 81764259Seric| WHO AM I? | 81864259Seric+-----------+ 81964259Seric 82064259SericNormally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully 82164259Sericqualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your 82264259Serichost name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the 82364259Sericresult. For example, in some environments gethostname returns 82464259Sericonly the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is 82564259Sericsupposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare) 82664259Sericcases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case 82764259Sericyou MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain 82864259Sericname. This is usually done using: 82964259Seric 83064259Seric Dmbar.com 83164259Seric define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl 83264259Seric 83364259Seric 83464028Seric+--------------------+ 83564028Seric| USING MAILERTABLES | 83664028Seric+--------------------+ 83764028Seric 83864028SericTo use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external 83964028Sericdatabase containing the routing information for various domains. 84064028SericFor example, a mailertable file in text format might be: 84164028Seric 84264028Seric .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain 84364028Seric uuhost1.my.domain suucp:uuhost1 84464028Seric .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net 84564028Seric 84664028SericThis should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable. The actual 84764028Sericdatabase version of the mailertable is built using: 84864028Seric 84964028Seric makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable 85064028Seric 85164028SericThe semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with 85264028Serica dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning 85364028Sericwith a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is, 85464028Sericthey can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard. Matching 85564028Sericis done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even 85664028Sericthough ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry 85764028Sericof "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is 85864028Sericmore explicit. 85964028Seric 86064028SericThe RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the 86164028Sericconfiguration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the 86264028Sericsendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to 86364028Sericthat mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading 86464028Sericdots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of 86564028Sericthe host name. For example, the first line above sends everything 86664028Sericaddressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using 86764028Sericthe (presumably experimental) xnet mailer. 86864028Seric 86967915SericIn some cases you may want to temporarily turn off MX records, 87067915Sericparticularly on gateways. For example, you may want to MX 87167915Sericeverything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it 87267915Sericdirectly. To do this, you might use the DNS configuration: 87364028Seric 87467915Seric *.domain. IN MX 0 relay.machine 87567915Seric 87667915Sericand on relay.machine use the mailertable: 87767915Seric 87867915Seric .domain smtp:[gateway.domain] 87967915Seric 88067915SericThe [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only. 88167915SericIf you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record 88267915Sericagain, which would give you an MX loop. 88367915Seric 88467915Seric 88564153Seric+--------------------------------+ 88664153Seric| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES | 88764153Seric+--------------------------------+ 88864153Seric 88964153SericThe user database was not originally intended for mapping full names 89064153Sericto login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using 89164153Sericit that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this 89264153Sericpurpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this 89364153Sericis fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at 89464153Serica site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host. 89564153Seric 89664153SericIf you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is 89767917Sericimperative that you not use FEATURE(stickyhost) -- otherwise, 89864153Serice-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected. 89964153Seric 90067917SericTo build the internal form of the user database, use: 90164153Seric 90264259Seric makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt 90364259Seric 90464259Seric 90567539Seric+--------------------------------+ 90667539Seric| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES | 90767539Seric+--------------------------------+ 90867539Seric 90967539SericDOTTED_USER(name) 91067539Seric Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a 91167539Seric centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all 91267539Seric root mail to a mail server. In this case it might be 91367539Seric useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class 91467539Seric of addresses with subtle differences. You can do this 91567539Seric using dotted users. For example, a client might include 91667539Seric the alias: 91767539Seric 91867539Seric root: root.client1@server 91967539Seric 92067539Seric On the server, the mail configuration would include: 92167539Seric 92267539Seric DOTTED_USER(root) 92367539Seric 92467539Seric Aliases on the server that would match this address would 92567539Seric be "root.client", "root.*", and "root", tried in that 92667539Seric order. You can specify multiple addresses either by 92767539Seric joining them in one DOTTTED_USER macro or by having 92867539Seric multiple macros: 92967539Seric 93067539Seric DOTTED_USER(root) 93167539Seric DOTTED_USER(postmaster mailer-daemon) 93267539Seric 93367539Seric defines three dotted users. 93467539Seric 93567539Seric 93667960Seric+----------------+ 93767960Seric| SECURITY NOTES | 93867960Seric+----------------+ 93967960Seric 94067960SericA lot of sendmail security comes down to you. Sendmail 8 is much 94167960Sericmore careful about checking for security problems than previous 94267960Sericversions, but there are some things that you still need to watch 94367960Sericfor. In particular: 94467960Seric 94567960Seric* Make sure the aliases file isn't writable except by trusted 94667960Seric system personnel. This includes both the text and database 94767960Seric version. 94867960Seric 94967960Seric* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the 95067960Seric mailertable, is only writable by trusted system personnel. 95167960Seric 95267960Seric* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY 95367960Seric if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root 95467960Seric user can chown any file they own to any other user). 95567960Seric 95667960Seric* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically 95767960Seric writable directory for forward files. This will allow anyone 95867960Seric to steal anyone else's e-mail. Instead, create a script that 95967960Seric copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a 96067960Seric night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory). 96167960Seric 96267960Seric* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that 96367960Seric sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in 96467960Seric particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in 96567960Seric /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before 96667960Seric files and programs listed in them will be honored). 96767960Seric 96867960SericIn general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them 96967960Sericoff I recommend you do so. 97067960Seric 97167960Seric 97258363Seric+------------------+ 97358363Seric| FlexFAX SOFTWARE | 97458363Seric+------------------+ 97558363Seric 97658363SericSam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a 97758363Sericpublic version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93]. The following 97858363Sericblurb is direct from Sam: 97958363Seric 98064498Seric $Header: /usr/people/sam/fax/RCS/HOWTO,v 1.14 93/05/24 11:42:16 sam Exp $ 98158363Seric 98258363Seric How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file) 98364498Seric -------------------------------------------------------------- 98458363Seric The source code is available for public ftp on 98564498Seric sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z 98658363Seric (192.48.153.1) 98758363Seric 98858363Seric You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from 98964498Seric sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar 99058363Seric (192.48.153.1) 99158363Seric 99258363Seric For example, 99358363Seric % ftp -n sgi.com 99458363Seric .... 99558363Seric ftp> user anonymous 99658363Seric ... <type in password> 99758363Seric ftp> cd sgi/fax 99858363Seric ftp> binary 99964498Seric ftp> get v2.1.src.tar.Z 100058363Seric 100164498Seric In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is 100264498Seric always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp 100364498Seric directory. This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so 100464498Seric don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of 100564498Seric the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older 100664498Seric versions of the source code. For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would 100764498Seric contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z. (Note to beta testers: this is 100864498Seric different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch 100964498Seric files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are 101064498Seric multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply 101164498Seric each patch file between your current version and the latest. 101264498Seric 101364498Seric 101464498Seric Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail 101564498Seric ----------------------------------------- 101664498Seric Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without 101764498Seric response). If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called 101864498Seric "ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com: you can send e-mail to 101964498Seric this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you 102064498Seric the files back again via e-mail. To find out more about the ftpmail 102158363Seric service, send a message to "ftpmail@gatekeeper.dec.com" whose body 102258363Seric consists of the single line "help". 102358363Seric 102464498Seric 102564498Seric Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics 102664498Seric ---------------------------------------------- 102758363Seric Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host 102864498Seric flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist. Thus you can do something like: 102958363Seric 103064498Seric % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax 103158363Seric 103264498Seric to install the latest version of the software on your machine. 103358363Seric 103464498Seric 103564498Seric What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff 103664498Seric -------------------------------------- 103758363Seric The external distributions come in a compressed or uncompressed tar 103858363Seric file. To extract the source distribution: 103958363Seric 104064498Seric % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf - 104158363Seric 104258363Seric (uncompress and extract individual files in current directory). To 104358363Seric unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution: 104458363Seric 104558363Seric % mkdir dist 104664498Seric % cd dist; tar xf ../v2.1.inst.tar; cd .. 104758363Seric % inst -f dist/flexfax 104858363Seric ... 104958363Seric inst> go 105058363Seric 105158363Seric (Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if 105264498Seric the files are in the current directory.) Server binaries are also 105364498Seric included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*. They are not 105464498Seric installed by default, so to get them also you need to do: 105558363Seric 105658363Seric % inst -f flexfax 105758363Seric ... 105858363Seric inst> install flexfax.server.* 105958363Seric inst> go 106058363Seric 106164498Seric The SGI binaries were built for Version 4.0.5H of the IRIX operating 106258363Seric system. They should work w/o problem on earlier versions of the 106358363Seric system, but I have not fully tested this. Also, note that to install a 106458363Seric server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display 106558363Seric PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe). Otherwise, the fax 106658363Seric server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for 106758363Seric transmission. 106858363Seric 106964498Seric If you are working from the source distribution, look at the file 107064498Seric README in the top of the source tree. If you are working from the inst 107164498Seric images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and 107264498Seric other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in 107364498Seric the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax). Basically you will need to run 107464498Seric the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem. Consult 107564498Seric the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information. 107658363Seric 107758363Seric 107864498Seric FlexFAX Mail List 107964498Seric ----------------- 108058363Seric A mailing list for users of this software is located on sgi.com. 108158363Seric If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request 108258363Seric such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to 108358363Seric 108464498Seric majordomo@whizzer.wpd.sgi.com 108558363Seric 108664498Seric For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in 108764498Seric the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of 108864498Seric the commands understood by the mailing list management software. 108964498Seric 109058363Seric Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to: 109158363Seric 109258363Seric flexfax@sgi.com 109358363Seric 109464498Seric When corresponding about this software please always specify what 109564498Seric version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is 109664498Seric specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision. 109758363Seric 109864498Seric 109957945Seric+--------------------------------+ 110057945Seric| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS | 110157945Seric+--------------------------------+ 110257945Seric 110357945SericThere are a large number of configuration options that don't normally 110457945Sericneed to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you 110557945Sericcan define the following M4 variables. This list is shown in four 110657945Sericcolumns: the name you define, the default value for that definition, 110757945Sericthe option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx 110857945Sericfor a macro), and a brief description. Greater detail of the semantics 110957945Sericcan be found in the Installation and Operations Guide. 111057945Seric 111163582SericSome options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is, 111263582Sericthe option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are 111363582Sericmarked with "*". 111463582Seric 111565002SericRemember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to 111665002Sericbe quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to 111765002Sericbe ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma 111865002Sericconfuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for 111965002Sericthe read timeout. 112065002Seric 112157945SericM4 Variable Name Default Mac/Opt Description 112265002Seric================ ======= ======= =========== 112357945SericconfMAILER_NAME MAILER-DAEMON Dn The sender name used for 112457945Seric internally generated 112557945Seric outgoing messages. 112658681SericconfFROM_LINE From $g $d Dl The From_ line used when 112758681Seric sending to files or programs. 112857945SericconfFROM_HEADER $?x$x <$g>$|$g$. The format of an internally 112957945Seric Dq generated From: address. 113067929SericconfOPERATORS .:%@!^/[]+ Do Address operator characters. 113164153SericconfSMTP_LOGIN_MSG $j Sendmail $v/$Z ready at $b 113257945Seric De The initial (spontaneous) 113357945Seric SMTP greeting message. 113467820SericconfRECEIVED_HEADER $?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u for $u$.; $b 113567820Seric HReceived 113667820Seric The format of the Received: 113767820Seric header in messages passed 113867820Seric through this host. It is 113967820Seric unwise to try to change this. 114059743SericconfSEVEN_BIT_INPUT False O7 Force input to seven bits? 114167551SericconfEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING pass8 O8 8-bit data handling 114257945SericconfALIAS_WAIT 10 Oa Wait (in minutes) for alias 114357945Seric file rebuild. 114458087SericconfMIN_FREE_BLOCKS 4 Ob Minimum number of free blocks 114558087Seric on queue filesystem to accept 114658087Seric SMTP mail. 114757945SericconfBLANK_SUB . OB Blank (space) substitution 114857945Seric character. 114965619SericconfCON_EXPENSIVE False Oc Avoid connecting immediately 115065619Seric to mailers marked expensive? 115157945SericconfCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL 10 OC Checkpoint queue files 115257945Seric every N recipients. 115357945SericconfDELIVERY_MODE background Od Default delivery mode. 115457945SericconfAUTO_REBUILD False OD Automatically rebuild 115557945Seric alias file if needed. 115657945SericconfERROR_MODE (undefined) Oe Error message mode. 115757945SericconfERROR_MESSAGE (undefined) OE Error message header/file. 115857945SericconfSAVE_FROM_LINES False Of Save extra leading 115957945Seric From_ lines. 116057945SericconfTEMP_FILE_MODE 0600 OF Temporary file mode. 116157945SericconfDEF_GROUP_ID 1 Og Default group id. 116257945SericconfMATCH_GECOS False OG Match GECOS field. 116357945SericconfMAX_HOP 17 Oh Maximum hop count. 116463582SericconfIGNORE_DOTS False Oi * Ignore dot as terminator 116557945Seric for incoming messages? 116657945SericconfBIND_OPTS (empty) OI Default options for BIND. 116763582SericconfMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS True Oj * Send error messages as MIME- 116859743Seric encapsulated messages per 116959743Seric RFC 1344. 117064153SericconfFORWARD_PATH (undefined) OJ The colon-separated list of 117164153Seric places to search for .forward 117267960Seric files. N.B.: see the Security 117367960Seric Notes section. 117457945SericconfMCI_CACHE_SIZE 2 Ok Size of open connection cache. 117557945SericconfMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT 5m OK Open connection cache timeout. 117663582SericconfUSE_ERRORS_TO False Ol * Use the Errors-To: header to 117763582Seric deliver error messages. This 117863582Seric should not be necessary because 117963582Seric of general acceptance of the 118063582Seric envelope/header distinction. 118157945SericconfLOG_LEVEL 9 OL Log level. 118257945SericconfME_TOO False Om Include sender in group 118357945Seric expansions. 118457945SericconfCHECK_ALIASES True On Check RHS of aliases when 118557945Seric running newaliases. 118663582SericconfOLD_STYLE_HEADERS True Oo * Assume that headers without 118757945Seric special chars are old style. 118858859SericconfDAEMON_OPTIONS (undefined) OO SMTP daemon options. 118958806SericconfPRIVACY_FLAGS authwarnings Op Privacy flags. 119057945SericconfCOPY_ERRORS_TO (undefined) OP Address for additional copies 119157945Seric of all error messages. 119257945SericconfQUEUE_FACTOR (undefined) Oq Slope of queue-only function 119358116SericconfREAD_TIMEOUT (undefined) Or SMTP read timeouts. 119467811SericconfDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES False OR Don't prune down route-addr 119567811Seric syntax addresses to the 119667811Seric minimum possible. 119763582SericconfSAFE_QUEUE True Os * Commit all messages to disk 119857945Seric before forking. 119958806SericconfMESSAGE_TIMEOUT 5d/4h OT Timeout for messages before 120058806Seric sending error/warning message. 120159317SericconfTIME_ZONE USE_SYSTEM Ot Time zone info -- can be 120257945Seric USE_SYSTEM to use the system's 120357945Seric idea, USE_TZ to use the user's 120457945Seric TZ envariable, or something 120557945Seric else to force that value. 120657945SericconfDEF_USER_ID 1 Ou Default user id. 120758718SericconfUSERDB_SPEC (undefined) OU User database specification. 120858859SericconfFALLBACK_MX (undefined) OV Fallback MX host. 120963857SericconfTRY_NULL_MX_LIST False Ow If we are the best MX for a 121063857Seric host and haven't made other 121163857Seric arrangements, try connecting 121263857Seric to the host directly; normally 121363857Seric this would be a config error. 121457945SericconfQUEUE_LA 8 Ox Load average at which queue-only 121557945Seric function kicks in. 121657945SericconfREFUSE_LA 12 OX Load average at which incoming 121757945Seric SMTP connections are refused. 121863582SericconfWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR 121963582Seric (undefined) Oy Cost of each recipient. 122063582SericconfSEPARATE_PROC False OY Run all deliveries in a 122157945Seric separate process. 122257945SericconfWORK_CLASS_FACTOR (undefined) Oz Priority multiplier for class. 122357945SericconfWORK_TIME_FACTOR (undefined) OZ Cost of each delivery attempt. 122468184SericconfQUEUE_SORT_ORDER Priority O QueueSortOrder 122568184Seric Queue sort algorithm: 122668184Seric Priority or Host. 122758408SericconfCW_FILE /etc/sendmail.cw Name of file used to get the 122858408Seric Fw local additions to the $=w 122958408Seric class. 123064153SericconfSMTP_MAILER smtp - The mailer name used when 123163972Seric SMTP connectivity is required. 123267915Seric One of "smtp", "smtp8", or 123367915Seric "esmtp". 123463999SericconfLOCAL_MAILER local - The mailer name used when 123563999Seric local connectivity is required. 123663999Seric Almost always "local". 123764028SericconfRELAY_MAILER relay - The default mailer name used 123864028Seric for relaying any mail (e.g., 123964028Seric to a BITNET_RELAY, a 124064028Seric SMART_HOST, or whatever). 124164028Seric This can reasonably be "suucp" 124264028Seric if you are on a UUCP-connected 124364028Seric site. 124464259SericconfDOMAIN_NAME (undefined) Dj If defined, sets $j. 124557945Seric 124658087Seric 124757246Seric+-----------+ 124857246Seric| HIERARCHY | 124957246Seric+-----------+ 125057246Seric 125151220SericWithin this directory are several subdirectories, to wit: 125251220Seric 125351220Sericm4 General support routines. These are typically 125451220Seric very important and should not be changed without 125557247Seric very careful consideration. 125651220Seric 125751220Sericcf The configuration files themselves. They have 125851220Seric ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to 125951220Seric become complete. The resulting output should 126051220Seric have a ".cf" suffix. 126151220Seric 126251220Sericostype Definitions describing a particular operating 126351220Seric system type. These should always be referenced 126451220Seric using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples 126551220Seric include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and 126651220Seric "sunos4.1". 126751220Seric 126851220Sericdomain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced 126951220Seric using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are 127051220Seric site dependent; for example, we contribute "cs.exposed.m4" 127151220Seric and "cs.hidden.m4" which both describe hosts in the 127251220Seric CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain; the former displays the local 127351220Seric hostname (e.g., mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU), whereas the 127451220Seric latter does its best to hide the identity of the local 127551220Seric workstation inside the CS subdomain. 127651220Seric 127751220Sericmailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using 127851220Seric the MAILER macro in the .mc file. 127951220Seric 128051220Sericsh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the 128151220Seric .mc file in the cf subdirectory. 128251220Seric 128351220Sericfeature These hold special orthogonal features that you might 128451220Seric want to include. They should be referenced using 128551220Seric the FEATURE macro. 128651220Seric 128751220Serichack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK 128851220Seric macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic 128951220Seric interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows? 129065957Seric We've all got our own peccadillos. 129151220Seric 129251268Sericsiteconfig Site configuration -- e.g., tables of locally connected 129351268Seric UUCP sites. 129451220Seric 129551268Seric 129657246Seric+------------------------+ 129757246Seric| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS | 129857246Seric+------------------------+ 129951220Seric 130051220SericThe following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the 130151220Sericsendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify 130251220Sericthe current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these 130351220Sericshould be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more). 130451220Seric 130551220SericRULESETS (* means built in to sendmail) 130651220Seric 130751220Seric 0 * Parsing 130851220Seric 1 * Sender rewriting 130951220Seric 2 * Recipient rewriting 131051220Seric 3 * Canonicalization 131151220Seric 4 * Post cleanup 131254839Seric 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing) 131360539Seric 1x mailer rules (sender qualification) 131460539Seric 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification) 131564801Seric 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification) 131664801Seric 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification) 131764801Seric 5x mailer subroutines (general) 131864801Seric 6x mailer subroutines (general) 131964801Seric 7x mailer subroutines (general) 132064801Seric 8x reserved 132160539Seric 90 Mailertable host stripping 132260892Seric 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail) 132360892Seric 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail) 132463857Seric 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail) 132551220Seric 132651220Seric 132751220SericMAILERS 132851220Seric 132951220Seric 0 local, prog local and program mailers 133065218Seric 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel 133165218Seric 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program 133258087Seric 3 netnews Network News delivery 133358363Seric 4 fax Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software 133451220Seric 133551220Seric 133651220SericMACROS 133751220Seric 133851220Seric A 133951220Seric B Bitnet Relay 134065182Seric C 134154839Seric D The local domain -- usually not needed 134251220Seric E 134358363Seric F FAX Relay 134451220Seric G 134557591Seric H mail Hub (for mail clusters) 134651220Seric I 134751220Seric J 134851220Seric K 134967915Seric L Luser Relay 135051220Seric M Masquerade (who I claim to be) 135151220Seric N 135251220Seric O 135351220Seric P 135451220Seric Q 135551220Seric R Relay (for unqualified names) 135658071Seric S Smart Host 135751220Seric T 135851309Seric U my UUCP name (if I have a UUCP connection) 135951309Seric V UUCP Relay (class V hosts) 136051220Seric W UUCP Relay (class W hosts) 136151220Seric X UUCP Relay (class X hosts) 136251309Seric Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts) 136351220Seric Z Version number 136451220Seric 136551220Seric 136651220SericCLASSES 136751220Seric 136851220Seric A 136951220Seric B 137051220Seric C 137167539Seric D "dotted" users 137257246Seric E addresses that should not seem to come from $M 137354839Seric F hosts we forward for 137451220Seric G 137551220Seric H 137651220Seric I 137751220Seric J 137851220Seric K 137951220Seric L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R 138051220Seric M 138151220Seric N 138251220Seric O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names) 138360211Seric P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, FAX, UUCP, etc. 138451220Seric Q 138551220Seric R 138651220Seric S 138751220Seric T 138851220Seric U locally connected UUCP hosts 138951309Seric V UUCP hosts connected to relay $V 139051309Seric W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W 139151309Seric X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X 139251309Seric Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts 139364153Seric Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts 139454839Seric . the class containing only a dot 139551220Seric 139651220Seric 139751220SericM4 DIVERSIONS 139851220Seric 139958071Seric 1 Local host detection and resolution 140058071Seric 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions 140158071Seric 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions 140251268Seric 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions 140351309Seric 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R) 140454839Seric 6 local configuration (at top of file) 140551220Seric 7 mailer definitions 140666099Seric 8 140758681Seric 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2) 1408