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251220Seric
357246Seric		NEW SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILES
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557246Seric		Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
651220Seric
7*68216Seric		@(#)README	8.46 (Berkeley) 01/31/95
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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*******************************************************************
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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
46168206Sericbestmx_is_local	Accept mail as though locally addressed for any host that
46268206Seric		lists us as the best possible MX record.  This generates
46368206Seric		additional DNS traffic, but should be OK for low to
46468206Seric		medium traffic hosts.
46567929Seric
466*68216Sericsmrsh		Use the SendMail Restricted SHell (smrsh) provided
467*68216Seric		with the distribution instead of /bin/sh for mailing
468*68216Seric		to programs.  This improves the ability of the local
469*68216Seric		system administrator to control what gets run via
470*68216Seric		e-mail.  If an argument is provided it is used as the
471*68216Seric		pathname to smrsh; otherwise, /usr/local/etc/smrsh is
472*68216Seric		assumed.
47368206Seric
474*68216Seric
47557246Seric+-------+
47657246Seric| HACKS |
47757246Seric+-------+
47857246Seric
47957246SericSome things just can't be called features.  To make this clear,
48057247Sericthey go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK
48157246Sericmacro.  These will tend to be site-dependent.  The release
48257246Sericincludes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes
48357246Sericsendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU;
48457246Sericthis is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into
48557246Sericsubdomains.
48657246Seric
48758087Seric
48857246Seric+--------------------+
48957246Seric| SITE CONFIGURATION |
49057246Seric+--------------------+
49157246Seric
49268057Seric    *****************************************************
49368057Seric    * This section is really obsolete, and is preserved	*
49468057Seric    * only for back compatibility.  You should plan on	*
49568057Seric    * using mailertables for new installations.	  In	*
49668057Seric    * particular, it doesn't work for the newer forms	*
49768057Seric    * of UUCP mailers, such as uucp-uudom.		*
49868057Seric    *****************************************************
49968057Seric
50057246SericComplex sites will need more local configuration information, such as
50157246Sericlists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly.  This can get a bit more
50257246Serictricky.  For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc.
50357246Seric
50466336SericIf your host is known by several different names, you need to augment
50566336Sericthe $=w class.  This is a list of names by which you are known, and
50666336Sericanything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
50766336Serictreated as local mail.  You can do this in two ways: either create
50866336Sericthe file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per
50966336Sericline), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the
51066336Sericline:
51166336Seric
51266336Seric	Cw alias.host.name
51366336Seric
51466336Sericat the end of that file.  See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example.
51566336SericBe sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a
51666336Sericshort name.
51766336Seric
51857246SericThe SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent
51957246Sericconfiguration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory.  For
52057246Sericexample, the line
52157246Seric
52257246Seric	SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U)
52357246Seric
52457246Sericreads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information.  The
52557246Sericsecond parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since
52666336Sericit is locally connected, and hence a UUCP hostname).  The third
52766336Sericparameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in
52866336Sericthis case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store
52966336Sericthe host information read from the file.  Another SITECONFIG line reads
53057246Seric
53157246Seric	SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W)
53257246Seric
53357246SericThis says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites
53457246Sericconnected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.  The $=W class will be used to
53566336Sericstore this list, and $W is defined to be ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, that
53666336Sericis, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa
53766336Sericare connected.  [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left
53857246Sericthis out-of-date configuration file around to demonstrate how you
53957246Sericmight do this.]
54057246Seric
54166336SericNote that the case of SITECONFIG with a third parameter of ``U'' is
54266336Sericspecial; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the
54366336Sericlocal site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name
54466336Sericis entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP.
54566336Seric
54657246SericThe siteconfig file (e.g., siteconfig/uucp.ucbvax.m4) contains nothing
54757246Sericmore than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity.  For
54857246Sericexample:
54957246Seric
55057246Seric	SITE(cnmat)
55157246Seric	SITE(sgi olympus)
55257246Seric
55357246SericThe second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the
55457246Sericsame line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at
55557246Sericleast in the same company).
55657246Seric
55758087Seric
55865218Seric+--------------------+
55965218Seric| USING UUCP MAILERS |
56065218Seric+--------------------+
56165218Seric
56265218SericIt's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc
56365218Sericnature of UUCP addressing.  These config files are really designed
56465218Sericfor domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites.
56565218Seric
56665218SericThere are four UUCP mailers available.  The choice of which one to
56765218Sericuse is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at
56865218Sericthe other end of your UUCP connection.  Unlike good protocols that
56965218Sericdefine what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you
57065218Sericshould do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have
57165218Sericto change.  This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages
57265218Sericpeople from updating their software.  In general, if you can avoid
57365218SericUUCP, please do.
57465218Seric
57565218SericThe major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a
57665218Sericnon-domainized scheme.  This depends entirely on what the other
57765218Sericend will recognize.  If at all possible, you should encourage the
57865218Sericother end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses
57965218Sericdon't work entirely properly.
58065218Seric
58165218SericThe four mailers are:
58265218Seric
58365218Seric    uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp")
58465218Seric	This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of
58565218Seric	sending messages accros UUCP connections.  It does bangify
58665218Seric	everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's
58765218Seric	address (which can already be a bang path itself).  It can
58865218Seric	only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of
58965218Seric	time copying duplicates of messages.  Avoid this if at all
59065218Seric	possible.
59165218Seric
59265218Seric    uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp")
59365218Seric	The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail
59465218Seric	command you can specify several recipients.  It still has a
59565218Seric	lot of other problems.
59665218Seric
59765218Seric    uucp-dom
59865218Seric	This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses.
59967471Seric	Basically, it uses the SMTP mailer rewriting rules.  This mailer
60067471Seric	is only included if MAILER(smtp) is also specified.
60165218Seric
60265218Seric	Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require
60365218Seric	bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use
60465218Seric	domain-based addresses in the message header.  (The envelope
60565218Seric	shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.)  So....
60665218Seric
60765218Seric    uucp-uudom
60865218Seric	This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses)
60965218Seric	and uucp-dom (for the header addresses).  It bangifies the
61065218Seric	envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the
61165218Seric	local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address
61265218Seric	at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name
61365218Seric	instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of
61467471Seric	"some.dom.ain!wolf").  This is also included only if MAILER(smtp)
61567471Seric	is also specified.
61665218Seric
61765218SericExamples:
61865218Seric
61965218SericWe are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp").  The
62065218Sericfollowing summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers.
62165218Seric
62265218SericMailer          sender		rewriting in the envelope
62365218Seric------		------		-------------------------
62465218Sericuucp-{old,new}	wolf		grasp!wolf
62565218Sericuucp-dom	wolf		wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
62665218Sericuucp-uudom	wolf		grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf
62765218Seric
62865218Sericuucp-{old,new}	wolf@fr.net	grasp!fr.net!wolf
62965218Sericuucp-dom	wolf@fr.net	wolf@fr.net
63065218Sericuucp-uudom	wolf@fr.net	fr.net!wolf
63165218Seric
63265218Sericuucp-{old,new}	somehost!wolf	grasp!somehost!wolf
63365218Sericuucp-dom	somehost!wolf	somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
63465218Sericuucp-uudom	somehost!wolf	grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf
63565218Seric
63665218SericIf you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want
63765218Sericto convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will
63865218Sericdo it for you (and probably not the way you expected).  For example,
63965218Sericif you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo),
64065218Sericthe heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to
64165218Sericthis address.  However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it
64265218Sericwill not add the local hostname.  You can do this using the uucpdomain
64365218Sericfeature.
64465218Seric
64565218Seric
64657246Seric+-------------------+
64757246Seric| TWEAKING RULESETS |
64857246Seric+-------------------+
64957246Seric
65051268SericFor more complex configurations, you can define special rules.
65151268SericThe macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing
65251268Sericthe names.  Any modifications made here are reflected in the header.
65351268Seric
65451268SericA common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using
65551268Sericthe UUCPSMTP macro.  For example:
65651268Seric
65751268Seric	LOCAL_RULE_3
65851268Seric	UUCPSMTP(decvax,	decvax.dec.com)
65951268Seric	UUCPSMTP(research,	research.att.com)
66051268Seric
66151268Sericwill cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user"
66251268Sericto be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com"
66351268Sericrespectively.
66451268Seric
66565957SericThis could also be used to look up hosts in a database map:
66657246Seric
66757246Seric	LOCAL_RULE_3
66857246Seric	R$* < @ $+ > $*		$: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3
66957246Seric
67057246SericThis map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below.
67157246Seric
67251268SericSimilarly, LOCAL_RULE_0 can be used to introduce new parsing rules.
67351268SericFor example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept
67451309Sericvia MX records.  For example, you might have:
67551268Seric
67651309Seric	LOCAL_RULE_0
67765986Seric	R$+ <@ host.dom.ain.>	$#uucp $@ cnmat $: $1 < @ host.dom.ain.>
67851309Seric
67951309SericYou would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU
68051309Sericpointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on
68151309Sericusing UUCP.
68251309Seric
68358681SericYou can also tweak rulesets 1 and 2 using LOCAL_RULE_1 and LOCAL_RULE_2.
68458681SericThese rulesets are normally empty.
68558681Seric
68657246SericA similar macro is LOCAL_CONFIG.  This introduces lines added after the
68757246Sericboilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to
68857945Sericdeclare local database maps or whatever.  For example:
68951268Seric
69057246Seric	LOCAL_CONFIG
69157246Seric	Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db
69257246Seric	Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname
69351220Seric
69458087Seric
69557246Seric+---------------------------+
69657246Seric| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
69757246Seric+---------------------------+
69857246Seric
69957246SericYou can have your host masquerade as another using
70057246Seric
70157246Seric	MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain)
70257246Seric
70365957SericThis causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the
70457246Sericindicated domain, rather than $j.  One normally masquerades as one
70565957Sericof one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would
70657246Sericchoose to masquerade as an MIT site).
70757246Seric
70864153SericThe masquerade name is not normally canonified, so it is important
70964153Sericthat it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a
71064153SericCNAME.
71164153Seric
71257246Sericthere are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their
71357246Sericinternal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.
71457246SericRoot is an example.  You can add users to this list using
71557246Seric
71657246Seric	EXPOSED_USER(usernames)
71757246Seric
71857246SericThis adds users to class E; you could also use something like
71957246Seric
72057246Seric	FE/etc/sendmail.cE
72157246Seric
72257246SericYou can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names
72357246Sericwithout @host) to a relay host.  For example, if you have a central
72457246Sericemail server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have
72557246Sericto have .forward files or aliases.  You can do this using
72657246Seric
72758071Seric	define(`LOCAL_RELAY', mailer:hostname)
72857246Seric
72958071SericThe ``mailer:'' can be omitted, in which case the mailer defaults to
73058071Seric"smtp".  There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps
73158071Sericbecause of local aliases.  A common example is root, which may be
73258071Sericlocally aliased.  You can add entries to this list using
73357246Seric
73457246Seric	LOCAL_USER(usernames)
73557246Seric
73657246SericThis adds users to class L; you could also use something like
73757246Seric
73857246Seric	FL/etc/sendmail.cL
73957246Seric
74064153SericIf you want all incoming mail sent to a centralized hub, as for a
74164153Sericshared /var/spool/mail scheme, use
74257591Seric
74358071Seric	define(`MAIL_HUB', mailer:hostname)
74457591Seric
74558071SericAgain, ``mailer:'' defaults to "smtp".  If you define both LOCAL_RELAY
74666047Sericand MAIL_HUB, unqualified names will be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and
74766047Sericother local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB.  Names in $=L will be
74866047Sericdelivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or .forward files for them.
74966047Seric
75066047SericFor example, if are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU, the following
75158071Sericcombinations of settings will have the indicated effects:
75257591Seric
75357591Sericemail sent to....	eric			  eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
75457591Seric
75557591SericLOCAL_RELAY set to	mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU	  (delivered locally)
75657591Sericmail.CS.Berkeley.EDU
75757591Seric
75857591SericMAIL_HUB set to		mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU	  mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
75957591Sericmammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
76057591Seric
76157591SericBoth LOCAL_RELAY and	mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU	  mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
76257591SericMAIL_HUB set as above
76357591Seric
76464153SericIf you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define
76564153SericSMART_HOST as well.  Briefly:
76658071Seric
76764153Seric	LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric").
76864153Seric	MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
76964153Seric		local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU").
77064153Seric	SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.
77164153Seric
77264153SericHowever, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, and
77364153SericFAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you really want
77464153Sericabsolutely everything to go to a single central site you will need to
77564153Sericunset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a minimal
77664153Sericconfig file that does this.
77764153Seric
77864153Seric
77958071Seric+-------------------------------+
78058071Seric| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |
78158071Seric+-------------------------------+
78258071Seric
78358071SericThese configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based
78458071Sericsites.  I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or
78558071SericUUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net
78658071Sericconnected to the rest of the world via UUCP).  However, there is one
78758071Serichook to handle some special cases.
78858071Seric
78958071SericYou can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax
79058071Sericusing:
79158071Seric
79258071Seric	define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname)
79358071Seric
79464028SericIn this case, the ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay".  Any messages that
79558071Sericcan't be handled using the usual UUCP rules are passed to this host.
79658071Seric
79758071SericIf you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside
79858071Sericworld via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules.
79958071SericFor example:
80058071Seric
80158071Seric	define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet)
80258071Seric	LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
80363761Seric	R$* < @ $* .$m. > $*	$#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
80458071Seric
80558071SericThis will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via
80658071SericSMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet.
80763761SericIf you have FEATURE(nocanonify), you may need to omit the dots after
80863761Sericthe $m.  If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is
80963761Sericnot otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to
81063761Sericuse:
81158071Seric
81263761Seric	define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com)
81363761Seric	LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
81463761Seric	R$* < @ $* . > $*	$#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3
81558071Seric
81663761SericThat is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup;
81763761Sericanything else goes through SMART_HOST.
81863761Seric
81964153SericIf you are not running DNS at all, it is important to use
82064153SericFEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting
82164153Sericfor the name server to come up.
82263761Seric
82364153Seric
82464259Seric+-----------+
82564259Seric| WHO AM I? |
82664259Seric+-----------+
82764259Seric
82864259SericNormally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully
82964259Sericqualified domain name (FQDN).  Sendmail does this by getting your
83064259Serichost name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the
83164259Sericresult.  For example, in some environments gethostname returns
83264259Sericonly the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is
83364259Sericsupposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com").  In some (fairly rare)
83464259Sericcases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN.  In this case
83564259Sericyou MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain
83664259Sericname.  This is usually done using:
83764259Seric
83864259Seric	Dmbar.com
83964259Seric	define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl
84064259Seric
84164259Seric
84264028Seric+--------------------+
84364028Seric| USING MAILERTABLES |
84464028Seric+--------------------+
84564028Seric
84664028SericTo use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external
84764028Sericdatabase containing the routing information for various domains.
84864028SericFor example, a mailertable file in text format might be:
84964028Seric
85064028Seric	.my.domain		xnet:%1.my.domain
85164028Seric	uuhost1.my.domain	suucp:uuhost1
85264028Seric	.bitnet			smtp:relay.bit.net
85364028Seric
85464028SericThis should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable.  The actual
85564028Sericdatabase version of the mailertable is built using:
85664028Seric
85764028Seric	makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
85864028Seric
85964028SericThe semantics are simple.  Any LHS entry that does not begin with
86064028Serica dot matches the full host name indicated.  LHS entries beginning
86164028Sericwith a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is,
86264028Sericthey can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard.  Matching
86364028Sericis done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even
86464028Sericthough ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry
86564028Sericof "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is
86664028Sericmore explicit.
86764028Seric
86864028SericThe RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair.  The mailer is the
86964028Sericconfiguration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the
87064028Sericsendmail.cf file).  The "host" will be the hostname passed to
87164028Sericthat mailer.  In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading
87264028Sericdots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of
87364028Sericthe host name.  For example, the first line above sends everything
87464028Sericaddressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using
87564028Sericthe (presumably experimental) xnet mailer.
87664028Seric
87767915SericIn some cases you may want to temporarily turn off MX records,
87867915Sericparticularly on gateways.  For example, you may want to MX
87967915Sericeverything in a domain to one machine that then forwards it
88067915Sericdirectly.  To do this, you might use the DNS configuration:
88164028Seric
88267915Seric	*.domain.	IN	MX	0	relay.machine
88367915Seric
88467915Sericand on relay.machine use the mailertable:
88567915Seric
88667915Seric	.domain		smtp:[gateway.domain]
88767915Seric
88867915SericThe [square brackets] turn off MX records for this host only.
88967915SericIf you didn't do this, the mailertable would use the MX record
89067915Sericagain, which would give you an MX loop.
89167915Seric
89267915Seric
89364153Seric+--------------------------------+
89464153Seric| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
89564153Seric+--------------------------------+
89664153Seric
89764153SericThe user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
89864153Sericto login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
89964153Sericit that way.  (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
90064153Sericpurpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
90164153Sericis fairly easy.)  The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
90264153Serica site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
90364153Seric
90464153SericIf you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
90567917Sericimperative that you not use FEATURE(stickyhost) -- otherwise,
90664153Serice-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected.
90764153Seric
90867917SericTo build the internal form of the user database, use:
90964153Seric
91064259Seric	makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
91164259Seric
91264259Seric
91367539Seric+--------------------------------+
91467539Seric| MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL FEATURES |
91567539Seric+--------------------------------+
91667539Seric
91767539SericDOTTED_USER(name)
91867539Seric	Sometimes it is convenient to merge configuration on a
91967539Seric	centralized mail machine, for example, to forward all
92067539Seric	root mail to a mail server.  In this case it might be
92167539Seric	useful to be able to treat the root addresses as a class
92267539Seric	of addresses with subtle differences.  You can do this
92367539Seric	using dotted users.  For example, a client might include
92467539Seric	the alias:
92567539Seric
92667539Seric		root:  root.client1@server
92767539Seric
92867539Seric	On the server, the mail configuration would include:
92967539Seric
93067539Seric		DOTTED_USER(root)
93167539Seric
93267539Seric	Aliases on the server that would match this address would
93367539Seric	be "root.client", "root.*", and "root", tried in that
93467539Seric	order.  You can specify multiple addresses either by
93567539Seric	joining them in one DOTTTED_USER macro or by having
93667539Seric	multiple macros:
93767539Seric
93867539Seric		DOTTED_USER(root)
93967539Seric		DOTTED_USER(postmaster mailer-daemon)
94067539Seric
94167539Seric	defines three dotted users.
94267539Seric
94367539Seric
94467960Seric+----------------+
94567960Seric| SECURITY NOTES |
94667960Seric+----------------+
94767960Seric
94867960SericA lot of sendmail security comes down to you.  Sendmail 8 is much
94967960Sericmore careful about checking for security problems than previous
95067960Sericversions, but there are some things that you still need to watch
95167960Sericfor.  In particular:
95267960Seric
95367960Seric* Make sure the aliases file isn't writable except by trusted
95467960Seric  system personnel.  This includes both the text and database
95567960Seric  version.
95667960Seric
95767960Seric* Make sure that other files that sendmail reads, such as the
95867960Seric  mailertable, is only writable by trusted system personnel.
95967960Seric
96067960Seric* The queue directory should not be world writable PARTICULARLY
96167960Seric  if your system allows "file giveaways" (that is, if a non-root
96267960Seric  user can chown any file they own to any other user).
96367960Seric
96467960Seric* If your system allows file giveaways, DO NOT create a publically
96567960Seric  writable directory for forward files.  This will allow anyone
96667960Seric  to steal anyone else's e-mail.  Instead, create a script that
96767960Seric  copies the .forward file from users' home directories once a
96867960Seric  night (if you want the non-NFS-mounted forward directory).
96967960Seric
97067960Seric* If your system allows file giveaways, you'll find that
97167960Seric  sendmail is much less trusting of :include: files -- in
97267960Seric  particular, you'll have to have /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ in
97367960Seric  /etc/shells before they will be trusted (that is, before
97467960Seric  files and programs listed in them will be honored).
97567960Seric
97667960SericIn general, file giveaways are a mistake -- if you can turn them
97767960Sericoff I recommend you do so.
97867960Seric
97967960Seric
98058363Seric+------------------+
98158363Seric| FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
98258363Seric+------------------+
98358363Seric
98458363SericSam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a
98558363Sericpublic version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93].  The following
98658363Sericblurb is direct from Sam:
98758363Seric
98864498Seric	$Header: /usr/people/sam/fax/RCS/HOWTO,v 1.14 93/05/24 11:42:16 sam Exp $
98958363Seric
99058363Seric	How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)
99164498Seric	--------------------------------------------------------------
99258363Seric	The source code is available for public ftp on
99364498Seric	    sgi.com			sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z
99458363Seric		(192.48.153.1)
99558363Seric
99658363Seric	You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from
99764498Seric	    sgi.com			sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar
99858363Seric		(192.48.153.1)
99958363Seric
100058363Seric	For example,
100158363Seric	    % ftp -n sgi.com
100258363Seric	    ....
100358363Seric	    ftp> user anonymous
100458363Seric	    ... <type in password>
100558363Seric	    ftp> cd sgi/fax
100658363Seric	    ftp> binary
100764498Seric	    ftp> get v2.1.src.tar.Z
100858363Seric
100964498Seric	In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is
101064498Seric	always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp
101164498Seric	directory.  This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so
101264498Seric	don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of
101364498Seric	the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older
101464498Seric	versions of the source code.  For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would
101564498Seric	contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z.  (Note to beta testers: this is
101664498Seric	different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch
101764498Seric	files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are
101864498Seric	multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply
101964498Seric	each patch file between your current version and the latest.
102064498Seric
102164498Seric
102264498Seric	Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail
102364498Seric	-----------------------------------------
102464498Seric	Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without
102564498Seric	response).  If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
102664498Seric	"ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com:  you can send e-mail to
102764498Seric	this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you
102864498Seric	the files back again via e-mail.  To find out more about the ftpmail
102958363Seric	service, send a message to "ftpmail@gatekeeper.dec.com" whose body
103058363Seric	consists of the single line "help".
103158363Seric
103264498Seric
103364498Seric	Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics
103464498Seric	----------------------------------------------
103558363Seric	Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
103664498Seric	flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist.  Thus you can do something like:
103758363Seric
103864498Seric	    % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax
103958363Seric
104064498Seric	to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
104158363Seric
104264498Seric
104364498Seric	What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff
104464498Seric	--------------------------------------
104558363Seric	The external distributions come in a compressed or uncompressed tar
104658363Seric	file.  To extract the source distribution:
104758363Seric
104864498Seric	    % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf -
104958363Seric
105058363Seric	(uncompress and extract individual files in current directory).  To
105158363Seric	unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution:
105258363Seric
105358363Seric	    % mkdir dist
105464498Seric	    % cd dist; tar xf ../v2.1.inst.tar; cd ..
105558363Seric	    % inst -f dist/flexfax
105658363Seric	    ...
105758363Seric	    inst> go
105858363Seric
105958363Seric	(Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if
106064498Seric	the files are in the current directory.) Server binaries are also
106164498Seric	included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*.  They are not
106264498Seric	installed by default, so to get them also you need to do:
106358363Seric
106458363Seric	    % inst -f flexfax
106558363Seric	    ...
106658363Seric	    inst> install flexfax.server.*
106758363Seric	    inst> go
106858363Seric
106964498Seric	The SGI binaries were built for Version 4.0.5H of the IRIX operating
107058363Seric	system.  They should work w/o problem on earlier versions of the
107158363Seric	system, but I have not fully tested this.  Also, note that to install a
107258363Seric	server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display
107358363Seric	PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe).  Otherwise, the fax
107458363Seric	server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for
107558363Seric	transmission.
107658363Seric
107764498Seric	If you are working from the source distribution, look at the file
107864498Seric	README in the top of the source tree.  If you are working from the inst
107964498Seric	images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and
108064498Seric	other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in
108164498Seric	the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax).  Basically you will need to run
108264498Seric	the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem.  Consult
108364498Seric	the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information.
108458363Seric
108558363Seric
108664498Seric	FlexFAX Mail List
108764498Seric	-----------------
108858363Seric	A mailing list for users of this software is located on sgi.com.
108958363Seric	If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request
109058363Seric	such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to
109158363Seric
109264498Seric	    majordomo@whizzer.wpd.sgi.com
109358363Seric
109464498Seric	For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in
109564498Seric	the body of your message.  The line "help" will return a list of
109664498Seric	the commands understood by the mailing list management software.
109764498Seric
109858363Seric	Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to:
109958363Seric
110058363Seric	    flexfax@sgi.com
110158363Seric
110264498Seric	When corresponding about this software please always specify what
110364498Seric	version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is
110464498Seric	specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision.
110558363Seric
110664498Seric
110757945Seric+--------------------------------+
110857945Seric| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |
110957945Seric+--------------------------------+
111057945Seric
111157945SericThere are a large number of configuration options that don't normally
111257945Sericneed to be changed.  However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you
111357945Sericcan define the following M4 variables.  This list is shown in four
111457945Sericcolumns:  the name you define, the default value for that definition,
111557945Sericthe option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx
111657945Sericfor a macro), and a brief description.  Greater detail of the semantics
111757945Sericcan be found in the Installation and Operations Guide.
111857945Seric
111963582SericSome options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is,
112063582Sericthe option is only included to provide back-compatibility.  These are
112163582Sericmarked with "*".
112263582Seric
112365002SericRemember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to
112465002Sericbe quoted.  In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to
112565002Sericbe ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma
112665002Sericconfuse things.  This is common for alias file definitions and for
112765002Sericthe read timeout.
112865002Seric
112957945SericM4 Variable Name	Default		Mac/Opt	Description
113065002Seric================	=======		=======	===========
113157945SericconfMAILER_NAME		MAILER-DAEMON	Dn	The sender name used for
113257945Seric						internally generated
113357945Seric						outgoing messages.
113458681SericconfFROM_LINE		From $g  $d	Dl	The From_ line used when
113558681Seric						sending to files or programs.
113657945SericconfFROM_HEADER		$?x$x <$g>$|$g$.	The format of an internally
113757945Seric					Dq	generated From: address.
113867929SericconfOPERATORS		.:%@!^/[]+	Do	Address operator characters.
113964153SericconfSMTP_LOGIN_MSG	$j Sendmail $v/$Z ready at $b
114057945Seric					De	The initial (spontaneous)
114157945Seric						SMTP greeting message.
114267820SericconfRECEIVED_HEADER	$?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u for $u$.; $b
114367820Seric					HReceived
114467820Seric						The format of the Received:
114567820Seric						header in messages passed
114667820Seric						through this host.  It is
114767820Seric						unwise to try to change this.
114859743SericconfSEVEN_BIT_INPUT	False		O7	Force input to seven bits?
114967551SericconfEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING	pass8		O8	8-bit data handling
115057945SericconfALIAS_WAIT		10		Oa	Wait (in minutes) for alias
115157945Seric						file rebuild.
115258087SericconfMIN_FREE_BLOCKS	4		Ob	Minimum number of free blocks
115358087Seric						on queue filesystem to accept
115458087Seric						SMTP mail.
115557945SericconfBLANK_SUB		.		OB	Blank (space) substitution
115657945Seric						character.
115765619SericconfCON_EXPENSIVE	False		Oc	Avoid connecting immediately
115865619Seric						to mailers marked expensive?
115957945SericconfCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL	10		OC	Checkpoint queue files
116057945Seric						every N recipients.
116157945SericconfDELIVERY_MODE	background	Od	Default delivery mode.
116257945SericconfAUTO_REBUILD	False		OD	Automatically rebuild
116357945Seric						alias file if needed.
116457945SericconfERROR_MODE		(undefined)	Oe	Error message mode.
116557945SericconfERROR_MESSAGE	(undefined)	OE	Error message header/file.
116657945SericconfSAVE_FROM_LINES	False		Of	Save extra leading
116757945Seric						From_ lines.
116857945SericconfTEMP_FILE_MODE	0600		OF	Temporary file mode.
116957945SericconfDEF_GROUP_ID	1		Og	Default group id.
117057945SericconfMATCH_GECOS		False		OG	Match GECOS field.
117157945SericconfMAX_HOP		17		Oh	Maximum hop count.
117263582SericconfIGNORE_DOTS		False		Oi *	Ignore dot as terminator
117357945Seric						for incoming messages?
117457945SericconfBIND_OPTS		(empty)		OI	Default options for BIND.
117563582SericconfMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS	True		Oj *	Send error messages as MIME-
117659743Seric						encapsulated messages per
117759743Seric						RFC 1344.
117864153SericconfFORWARD_PATH	(undefined)	OJ	The colon-separated list of
117964153Seric						places to search for .forward
118067960Seric						files.  N.B.: see the Security
118167960Seric						Notes section.
118257945SericconfMCI_CACHE_SIZE	2		Ok	Size of open connection cache.
118357945SericconfMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT	5m		OK	Open connection cache timeout.
118463582SericconfUSE_ERRORS_TO	False		Ol *	Use the Errors-To: header to
118563582Seric						deliver error messages.  This
118663582Seric						should not be necessary because
118763582Seric						of general acceptance of the
118863582Seric						envelope/header distinction.
118957945SericconfLOG_LEVEL		9		OL	Log level.
119057945SericconfME_TOO		False		Om	Include sender in group
119157945Seric						expansions.
119257945SericconfCHECK_ALIASES	True		On	Check RHS of aliases when
119357945Seric						running newaliases.
119463582SericconfOLD_STYLE_HEADERS	True		Oo *	Assume that headers without
119557945Seric						special chars are old style.
119658859SericconfDAEMON_OPTIONS	(undefined)	OO	SMTP daemon options.
119758806SericconfPRIVACY_FLAGS	authwarnings	Op	Privacy flags.
119857945SericconfCOPY_ERRORS_TO	(undefined)	OP	Address for additional copies
119957945Seric						of all error messages.
120057945SericconfQUEUE_FACTOR	(undefined)	Oq	Slope of queue-only function
120158116SericconfREAD_TIMEOUT	(undefined)	Or	SMTP read timeouts.
120267811SericconfDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES	False		OR	Don't prune down route-addr
120367811Seric						syntax addresses to the
120467811Seric						minimum possible.
120563582SericconfSAFE_QUEUE		True		Os *	Commit all messages to disk
120657945Seric						before forking.
120758806SericconfMESSAGE_TIMEOUT	5d/4h		OT	Timeout for messages before
120858806Seric						sending error/warning message.
120959317SericconfTIME_ZONE		USE_SYSTEM	Ot	Time zone info -- can be
121057945Seric						USE_SYSTEM to use the system's
121157945Seric						idea, USE_TZ to use the user's
121257945Seric						TZ envariable, or something
121357945Seric						else to force that value.
121457945SericconfDEF_USER_ID		1		Ou	Default user id.
121558718SericconfUSERDB_SPEC		(undefined)	OU	User database specification.
121658859SericconfFALLBACK_MX		(undefined)	OV	Fallback MX host.
121763857SericconfTRY_NULL_MX_LIST	False		Ow	If we are the best MX for a
121863857Seric						host and haven't made other
121963857Seric						arrangements, try connecting
122063857Seric						to the host directly; normally
122163857Seric						this would be a config error.
122257945SericconfQUEUE_LA		8		Ox	Load average at which queue-only
122357945Seric						function kicks in.
122457945SericconfREFUSE_LA		12		OX	Load average at which incoming
122557945Seric						SMTP connections are refused.
122663582SericconfWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR
122763582Seric			(undefined)	Oy	Cost of each recipient.
122863582SericconfSEPARATE_PROC	False		OY	Run all deliveries in a
122957945Seric						separate process.
123057945SericconfWORK_CLASS_FACTOR	(undefined)	Oz	Priority multiplier for class.
123157945SericconfWORK_TIME_FACTOR	(undefined)	OZ	Cost of each delivery attempt.
123268184SericconfQUEUE_SORT_ORDER	Priority	O QueueSortOrder
123368184Seric						Queue sort algorithm:
123468184Seric						Priority or Host.
123558408SericconfCW_FILE		/etc/sendmail.cw	Name of file used to get the
123658408Seric					Fw	local additions to the $=w
123758408Seric						class.
123864153SericconfSMTP_MAILER		smtp		-	The mailer name used when
123963972Seric						SMTP connectivity is required.
124067915Seric						One of "smtp", "smtp8", or
124167915Seric						"esmtp".
124263999SericconfLOCAL_MAILER	local		-	The mailer name used when
124363999Seric						local connectivity is required.
124463999Seric						Almost always "local".
124564028SericconfRELAY_MAILER	relay		-	The default mailer name used
124664028Seric						for relaying any mail (e.g.,
124764028Seric						to a BITNET_RELAY, a
124864028Seric						SMART_HOST, or whatever).
124964028Seric						This can reasonably be "suucp"
125064028Seric						if you are on a UUCP-connected
125164028Seric						site.
125264259SericconfDOMAIN_NAME		(undefined)	Dj	If defined, sets $j.
125357945Seric
125458087Seric
125557246Seric+-----------+
125657246Seric| HIERARCHY |
125757246Seric+-----------+
125857246Seric
125951220SericWithin this directory are several subdirectories, to wit:
126051220Seric
126151220Sericm4		General support routines.  These are typically
126251220Seric		very important and should not be changed without
126357247Seric		very careful consideration.
126451220Seric
126551220Sericcf		The configuration files themselves.  They have
126651220Seric		".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to
126751220Seric		become complete.  The resulting output should
126851220Seric		have a ".cf" suffix.
126951220Seric
127051220Sericostype		Definitions describing a particular operating
127151220Seric		system type.  These should always be referenced
127251220Seric		using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file.  Examples
127351220Seric		include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and
127451220Seric		"sunos4.1".
127551220Seric
127651220Sericdomain		Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced
127751220Seric		using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file.  These are
127851220Seric		site dependent; for example, we contribute "cs.exposed.m4"
127951220Seric		and "cs.hidden.m4" which both describe hosts in the
128051220Seric		CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain; the former displays the local
128151220Seric		hostname (e.g., mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU), whereas the
128251220Seric		latter does its best to hide the identity of the local
128351220Seric		workstation inside the CS subdomain.
128451220Seric
128551220Sericmailer		Descriptions of mailers.   These are referenced using
128651220Seric		the MAILER macro in the .mc file.
128751220Seric
128851220Sericsh		Shell files used when building the .cf file from the
128951220Seric		.mc file in the cf subdirectory.
129051220Seric
129151220Sericfeature		These hold special orthogonal features that you might
129251220Seric		want to include.  They should be referenced using
129351220Seric		the FEATURE macro.
129451220Seric
129551220Serichack		Local hacks.  These can be referenced using the HACK
129651220Seric		macro.  They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic
129751220Seric		interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows?
129865957Seric		We've all got our own peccadillos.
129951220Seric
130051268Sericsiteconfig	Site configuration -- e.g., tables of locally connected
130151268Seric		UUCP sites.
130251220Seric
130351268Seric
130457246Seric+------------------------+
130557246Seric| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS |
130657246Seric+------------------------+
130751220Seric
130851220SericThe following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the
130951220Sericsendmail.cf file.  Read them carefully if you are trying to modify
131051220Sericthe current model.  If you find the above descriptions adequate, these
131151220Sericshould be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more).
131251220Seric
131351220SericRULESETS (* means built in to sendmail)
131451220Seric
131551220Seric   0 *	Parsing
131651220Seric   1 *	Sender rewriting
131751220Seric   2 *	Recipient rewriting
131851220Seric   3 *	Canonicalization
131951220Seric   4 *	Post cleanup
132054839Seric   5 *	Local address rewrite (after aliasing)
132160539Seric  1x	mailer rules (sender qualification)
132260539Seric  2x	mailer rules (recipient qualification)
132364801Seric  3x	mailer rules (sender header qualification)
132464801Seric  4x	mailer rules (recipient header qualification)
132564801Seric  5x	mailer subroutines (general)
132664801Seric  6x	mailer subroutines (general)
132764801Seric  7x	mailer subroutines (general)
132864801Seric  8x	reserved
132960539Seric  90	Mailertable host stripping
133060892Seric  96	Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail)
133160892Seric  97	Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail)
133263857Seric  98	Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail)
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133451220Seric
133551220SericMAILERS
133651220Seric
133751220Seric   0	local, prog	local and program mailers
133865218Seric   1	[e]smtp, relay	SMTP channel
133965218Seric   2	uucp-*		UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
134058087Seric   3	netnews		Network News delivery
134158363Seric   4	fax		Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software
134251220Seric
134351220Seric
134451220SericMACROS
134551220Seric
134651220Seric   A
134751220Seric   B	Bitnet Relay
134865182Seric   C
134954839Seric   D	The local domain -- usually not needed
135051220Seric   E
135158363Seric   F	FAX Relay
135251220Seric   G
135357591Seric   H	mail Hub (for mail clusters)
135451220Seric   I
135551220Seric   J
135651220Seric   K
135767915Seric   L	Luser Relay
135851220Seric   M	Masquerade (who I claim to be)
135951220Seric   N
136051220Seric   O
136151220Seric   P
136251220Seric   Q
136351220Seric   R	Relay (for unqualified names)
136458071Seric   S	Smart Host
136551220Seric   T
136651309Seric   U	my UUCP name (if I have a UUCP connection)
136751309Seric   V	UUCP Relay (class V hosts)
136851220Seric   W	UUCP Relay (class W hosts)
136951220Seric   X	UUCP Relay (class X hosts)
137051309Seric   Y	UUCP Relay (all other hosts)
137151220Seric   Z	Version number
137251220Seric
137351220Seric
137451220SericCLASSES
137551220Seric
137651220Seric   A
137751220Seric   B
137851220Seric   C
137967539Seric   D	"dotted" users
138057246Seric   E	addresses that should not seem to come from $M
138154839Seric   F	hosts we forward for
138251220Seric   G
138351220Seric   H
138451220Seric   I
138551220Seric   J
138651220Seric   K
138751220Seric   L	addresses that should not be forwarded to $R
138851220Seric   M
138951220Seric   N
139051220Seric   O	operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names)
139160211Seric   P	top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, FAX, UUCP, etc.
139251220Seric   Q
139351220Seric   R
139451220Seric   S
139551220Seric   T
139651220Seric   U	locally connected UUCP hosts
139751309Seric   V	UUCP hosts connected to relay $V
139851309Seric   W	UUCP hosts connected to relay $W
139951309Seric   X	UUCP hosts connected to relay $X
140051309Seric   Y	locally connected smart UUCP hosts
140164153Seric   Z	locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts
140254839Seric   .	the class containing only a dot
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140451220Seric
140551220SericM4 DIVERSIONS
140651220Seric
140758071Seric   1	Local host detection and resolution
140858071Seric   2	Local Ruleset 3 additions
140958071Seric   3	Local Ruleset 0 additions
141051268Seric   4	UUCP Ruleset 0 additions
141151309Seric   5	locally interpreted names (overrides $R)
141254839Seric   6	local configuration (at top of file)
141351220Seric   7	mailer definitions
141466099Seric   8
141558681Seric   9	special local rulesets (1 and 2)
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