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1# Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman
2# Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
3# All rights reserved.
4#
5# %sccs.include.redist.sh%
6#
7#	@(#)READ_ME	8.55 (Berkeley) 03/06/94
8#
9
10This directory contains the source files for sendmail.
11
12For detailed instructions, please read the document ../doc/op.me:
13
14	eqn ../doc/op.me | pic | ditroff -me
15
16The Makefile is for the new (4.4BSD) Berkeley make and uses syntax
17that is not recognized by older makes.  It also has assumptions
18about the 4.4 file system layout built in.  See below for details
19about other Makefiles.
20
21There is also a Makefile.dist which is much less clever, but works on
22the old traditional make.  You can use this using:
23
24	make -f Makefile.dist
25
26**************************************************
27**  Read below for more details of Makefiles.	**
28**************************************************
29
30There is also a shell script (makesendmail) that tries to be clever
31about using object subdirectories.  It's pretty straightforward, and
32may help if you share a source tree among different architectures.
33
34**************************************************************************
35**  IMPORTANT:  DO NOT USE OPTIMIZATION (``-O'') IF YOU ARE RUNNING	**
36**  GCC 2.4.x or 2.5.x.  THERE IS A BUG IN THE GCC OPTIMIZER THAT	**
37**  CAUSES SENDMAIL COMPILES TO FAIL MISERABLY.				**
38**************************************************************************
39
40Jim Wilson of Cygnus believes he has found the problem -- it will
41probably be fixed in GCC 2.5.6 -- but until this is verified, be
42very suspicious of gcc -O.
43
44**************************************************************************
45**  IMPORTANT:  Read the appropriate paragraphs in the section on	**
46**  ``Operating System and Compile Quirks''.				**
47**************************************************************************
48
49
50+-----------+
51| MAKEFILES |
52+-----------+
53
54The "Makefile"s in these directories are from 4.4 BSD, and hence
55really only work properly if you are on a 4.4 system.  In particular,
56they use new syntax that will not be recognized on old make programs,
57and some of them do things like ``.include ../../Makefile.inc'' to
58pick up some system defines.  If you are getting sendmail separately,
59these files won't be included in the distribution, as they are
60outside of the sendmail tree.
61
62Instead, you should use one of the other Makefiles, such as
63Makefile.SunOS for a SunOS system, and so forth.  These should
64work with the version of make that is appropriate for that
65system.
66
67There are a bunch of other Makefiles for other systems with names
68like Makefile.HPUX for an HP-UX system.  They use the version of
69make that is native for that system.  These are the Makefiles that
70I use, and they have "Berkeley quirks" in them.  I can't guarantee
71that they will work unmodified in your environment.  Many of them
72include -I/usr/sww/include/db and -L/usr/sww/lib -- this is Berkeley's
73location (the ``Software Warehouse'') for the new database libraries,
74described below.  You don't have to remove these definitions if you
75don't have these directories.
76
77Please look for an appropriate Makefile before you start trying to
78compile with Makefile or Makefile.dist.
79
80If you want to port the new Berkeley make, you can get it from
81ftp.uu.net in the directory /systems/unix/bsd-sources/usr.bin/make.
82Diffs and instructions for building this version of make under
83SunOS 4.1.x are available on ftp.css.itd.umich.edu in
84/pub/systems/sun/Net2-make.sun4.diff.Z.  Diffs and instructions
85for building this version of make under IBM AIX 3.2.4 are available
86on ftp.uni-stuttgart.de in /sw/src/patches/bsd-make-rus-patches.
87Paul Southworth <pauls@umich.edu> published a description of porting
88this make in comp.unix.bsd.
89
90The complete text of the Makefile.inc that is in the parent of the
91sendmail directory is:
92
93	#	@(#)Makefile.inc	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
94
95	BINDIR?=	/usr/sbin
96
97
98+----------------------+
99| DATABASE DEFINITIONS |
100+----------------------+
101
102There are several database formats that can be used for the alias files
103and for general maps.  When used for alias files they interact in an
104attempt to be back compatible.
105
106The three options are NEWDB (the new Berkeley DB package), NDBM (the
107older DBM implementation -- the very old V7 implementation is no
108longer supported), and NIS (Network Information Services).  Used alone
109these just include the support they indicate.  [If you are using NEWDB,
110get the latest version from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU in /ucb/4bsd.  DO NOT
111use the version from the Net2 distribution!  However, if you are on
112BSD/386 or 386BSD-based systems, use the one that already exists
113on your system.  You may need to define OLD_NEWDB to do this.]
114
115[NOTE WELL: it is CRITICAL that you remove ndbm.o from libdb.a and
116ndbm.h from the appropriate include directories if you want to get
117ndbm support.  These files OVERRIDE calls to ndbm routines -- in
118particular, if you leave ndbm.h in, you can find yourself using
119the new db package even if you don't define NEWDB.]
120
121If NEWDB and NDBM are defined (but not NIS), then sendmail will read
122NDBM format alias files, but the next time a newaliases is run the
123format will be converted to NEWDB; that format will be used forever
124more.  This is intended as a transition feature.  [Note however that
125the NEWDB library also catches and maps NDBM calls; you will have to
126back out this feature to get this to work.  See ``Quirks'' section
127below for details.]
128
129If all three are defined, sendmail operates as described above, and also
130looks for the file /var/yp/Makefile.  If it exists, newaliases will
131build BOTH the NEWDB and NDBM format alias files.  However, it will
132only use the NEWDB file; the NDBM format file is used only by the
133NIS subsystem.
134
135If NDBM and NIS are defined (regardless of the definition of NEWDB
136or the existance of /var/yp/Makefile), sendmail adds the special
137tokens "YP_LAST_MODIFIED" and "YP_MASTER_NAME", both of which are
138required if the NDBM file is to be used as an NIS map.
139
140All of -DNEWDB, -DNDBM, and -DNIS are normally defined in the DBMDEF
141line in the Makefile.
142
143
144+---------------+
145| COMPILE FLAGS |
146+---------------+
147
148Whereever possible, I try to make sendmail pull in the correct
149compilation options needed to compile on various environments based on
150automatically defined symbols.  Some machines don't seem to have useful
151symbols availble, requiring the following compilation flags in the
152Makefile:
153
154SOLARIS		Define this if you are running Solaris 2.0 or higher.
155SOLARIS_2_3	Define this if you are running Solaris 2.3 or higher.
156SUNOS403	Define this if you are running SunOS 4.0.3.
157NeXT		Define this if you are on a NeXT box.  (This one may
158		be pre-defined for you.)  There are other hacks you
159		have to make -- see below.
160_AIX3		Define this if you are IBM AIX 3.x.
161RISCOS		Define this if you are running RISC/os from MIPS.
162_SCO_unix_	Define this if you are on SCO UNIX.
163_SCO_unix_4_2	Define this if you are on SCO Open Server 3.2v4.
164
165If you are a system that sendmail has already been ported to, you
166probably won't have to touch these.  But if you are porting, you may
167have to tweak the following compilation flags in conf.h in order to
168get it to compile and link properly:
169
170SYSTEM5		Adjust for System V (not necessarily Release 4).
171SYS5SIGNALS	Use System V signal semantics -- the signal handler
172		is automatically dropped when the signal is caught.
173		If this is not set, use POSIX/BSD semantics, where the
174		signal handler stays in force until an exec or an
175		explicit delete.  Implied by SYSTEM5.
176SYS5SETPGRP	Use System V setpgrp() semantics.  Implied by SYSTEM5.
177HASFLOCK	Set this if you prefer to use the flock(2) system call
178		rather than using fcntl-based locking.  Fcntl locking
179		has some semantic gotchas, but many vendor systems
180		also interface it to lockd(8) to do NFS-style locking.
181		For this reason, this should not be set unless you
182		don't have an alternative.
183HASUNAME	Set if you have the "uname" system call.  Implied by
184		SYSTEM5.
185HASUNSETENV	Define this if your system library has the "unsetenv"
186		subroutine.
187HASSETSID	Define this if you have the setsid(2) system call.  This
188		is implied if your system appears to be POSIX compliant.
189HASINITGROUPS	Define this if you have the initgroups(3) routine.
190HASSETVBUF	Define this if you have the setvbuf(3) library call.
191		If you don't, setlinebuf will be used instead.  This
192		defaults on if your compiler defines __STDC__.
193HASSETREUID	Define this if you have setreuid(2) ***AND*** root can
194		use setreuid to change to an arbitrary user.  This second
195		condition is not satisfied on AIX 3.x.  You may find that
196		your system has setresuid(2), (for example, on HP-UX) in
197		which case you will also have to #define setreuid(r, e)
198		to be the appropriate call.  Some systems (such as Solaris)
199		have a compatibility routine that doesn't work properly,
200		but may have "saved user ids" properly implemented so you
201		can ``#define setreuid(r, e) seteuid(e)'' and have it work.
202		The important thing is that you have a call that will set
203		the effective uid independently of the real or saved uid
204		and be able to set the effective uid back again when done.
205		There's a test program in ../test/t_setreuid.c that will
206		try things on your system.  Setting this improves the
207		security, since sendmail doesn't have to read .forward
208		and :include: files as root.  There are certain attacks
209		that may be unpreventable without this call.
210HASLSTAT	Define this if you have symbolic links (and thus the
211		lstat(2) system call).  This improves security.  Unlike
212		most other options, this one is on by default, so you
213		need to #undef it in conf.h if you don't have symbolic
214		links (these days everyone does).
215NEEDGETOPT	Define this if you need a reimplementation of getopt(3).
216		On some systems, getopt does very odd things if called
217		to scan the arguments twice.  This flag will ask sendmail
218		to compile in a local version of getopt that works
219		properly.
220NEEDSTRTOL	Define this if your standard C library does not define
221		strtol(3).  This will compile in a local version.
222NEEDVPRINTF	Define this if your standard C library does not define
223		vprintf(3).  Note that the resulting fake implementation
224		is not very elegant and may not even work on some
225		architectures.
226HASGETUSERSHELL	Define this to 1 if you have getusershell(3) in your
227		standard C library.  If this is not defined, or is defined
228		to be 0, sendmail will scan the /etc/shells file (no
229		NIS-style support, defaults to /bin/sh and /bin/csh if
230		that file does not exist) to get a list of unrestricted
231		user shells.  This is used to determine whether users
232		are allowed to forward their mail to a program or a file.
233GIDSET_T	The type of entries in a gidset passed as the second
234		argument to getgroups(2).  Historically this has been an
235		int, so this is the default, but some systems (such as
236		IRIX) pass it as a gid_t, which is an unsigned short.
237		This will make a difference, so it is important to get
238		this right!  However, it is only an issue if you have
239		group sets.
240SLEEP_T		The type returned by the system sleep() function.
241		Defaults to "unsigned int".  Don't worry about this
242		if you don't have compilation problems.
243ARBPTR_T	The type of an arbitrary pointer -- defaults to "void *".
244		If you are an very old compiler you may need to define
245		this to be "char *".
246LA_TYPE		The type of load average your kernel supports.  These
247		can be one of:
248		LA_ZERO (1) -- it always returns the load average as
249			"zero" (and does so on all architectures).
250		LA_SUBR (4) if you have the getloadavg(3) routine,
251		LA_MACH (5) to use MACH-style load averages (calls
252			processor_set_info()),
253		LA_PROCSTR (7) to read /proc/loadavg and interpret it
254			as a string representing a floating-point
255			number (Linux-style),
256		LA_FLOAT (3) if you read kmem and interpret the value
257			as a floating point number,
258		LA_INT (2) to interpret as a long integer,
259		LA_SHORT (6) to interpret as a short integer.
260		These last three have several other parameters that they
261		try to divine: the name of your kernel, the name of the
262		variable in the kernel to examine, the number of bits of
263		precision in a fixed point load average, and so forth.
264		In desperation, use LA_ZERO.  The actual code is in
265		conf.c -- it can be tweaked if you are brave.
266SFS_TYPE	Encodes how your kernel can locate the amount of free
267		space on a disk partition.  This can be set to SFS_NONE
268		(0) if you have no way of getting this information,
269		SFS_USTAT (1) if you have the ustat(2) system call,
270		SFS_4ARGS (2) if you have a four-argument statfs(2)
271		system call (and the include file is <sys/statfs.h>),
272		and SFS_VFS (3), SFS_MOUNT (4), or SFS_STATFS (5) if
273		you have the two-argument statfs(2) system call, with
274		includes in <sys/vfs.h>, <sys/mount.h>, or <sys/statfs.h>
275		respectively.  The default if nothing is defined is
276		SFS_NONE.
277ERRLIST_PREDEFINED
278		If set, assumes that some header file defines sys_errlist.
279		This may be needed if you get type conflicts on this
280		variable -- otherwise don't worry about it.
281WAITUNION	The wait(2) routine takes a "union wait" argument instead
282		of an integer argument.  This is for compatibility with
283		old versions of BSD.
284SCANF		You can set this to extend the F command to accept a
285		scanf string -- this gives you a primitive parser for
286		class definitions -- BUT it can make you vulnerable to
287		core dumps if the target file is poorly formed.
288SYSLOG_BUFSIZE	You can define this to be the size of the buffer that
289		syslog accepts.  If it is not defined, it assumes a
290		1024-byte buffer.  If the buffer is very small (under
291		256 bytes) the log message format changes -- each
292		e-mail message will log many more messages, since it
293		will log each piece of information as a separate line
294		in syslog.
295BROKEN_RES_SEARCH
296		On Ultrix (and maybe other systems?) if you use the
297		res_search routine with an unknown host name, it returns
298		-1 but sets h_errno to 0 instead of HOST_NOT_FOUND.  If
299		you set this, sendmail considers 0 to be the same as
300		HOST_NOT_FOUND.
301
302
303+-----------------------+
304| COMPILE-TIME FEATURES |
305+-----------------------+
306
307There are a bunch of features that you can decide to compile in, such
308as selecting various database packages and special protocol support.
309Several are assumed based on other compilation flags -- if you want to
310"un-assume" something, you probably need to edit conf.h.  Compilation
311flags that add support for special features include:
312
313NDBM		Include support for "new" DBM library for aliases and maps.
314		Normally defined in the Makefile.
315NEWDB		Include support for Berkeley "db" package (hash & btree)
316		for aliases and maps.  Normally defined in the Makefile.
317NIS		Define this to get NIS (YP) support for aliases and maps.
318		Normally defined in the Makefile.
319USERDB		Include support for the User Information Database.  Implied
320		by NEWDB in conf.h.
321IDENTPROTO	Define this as 1 to get IDENT (RFC 1413) protocol support.
322		This is assumed unless you are running on Ultrix or
323		HP-UX, both of which have a problem in the UDP
324		implementation.  You can define it to be 0 to explicitly
325		turn off IDENT protocol support.
326MIME		Include support for MIME-encapsulated error messages.
327LOG		Set this to get syslog(3) support.  Defined by default
328		in conf.h.  You want this if at all possible.
329NETINET		Set this to get TCP/IP support.  Defined by default
330		in conf.h.  You probably want this.
331NETISO		Define this to get ISO networking support.
332SMTP		Define this to get the SMTP code.  Implied by NETINET
333		or NETISO.
334NAMED_BIND	Define this to get DNS (name daemon) support, including
335		MX support.  The specs you must use this if you run
336		SMTP.  Defined by default in conf.h.
337QUEUE		Define this to get queueing code.  Implied by NETINET
338		or NETISO; required by SMTP.  This gives you other good
339		stuff -- it should be on.
340DAEMON		Define this to get general network support.  Implied by
341		NETINET or NETISO.  Defined by default in conf.h.  You
342		almost certainly want it on.
343MATCHGECOS	Permit fuzzy matching of user names against the full
344		name (GECOS) field in the /etc/passwd file.  This should
345		probably be on, since you can disable it from the config
346		file if you want to.  Defined by default in conf.h.
347SETPROCTITLE	Try to set the string printed by "ps" to something
348		informative about what sendmail is doing.  Defined by
349		default in conf.h.
350
351
352+---------------------+
353| DNS/RESOLVER ISSUES |
354+---------------------+
355
356Many systems have old versions of the resolver library.  At a minimum,
357you should be running BIND 4.8.3; older versions may compile, but they
358have known bugs that should give you pause.
359
360Common problems in old versions include "undefined" errors for
361dn_skipname.
362
363Some people have had a problem with BIND 4.9; it uses some routines
364that it expects to be externally defined such as strerror().  It may
365help to link with "-l44bsd" to solve this problem.
366
367!PLEASE! be sure to link with the same version of the resolver as
368the header files you used -- some people have used the 4.9 headers
369and linked with BIND 4.8 or vice versa, and it doesn't work.
370Unfortunately, it doesn't fail in an obvious way -- things just
371subtly don't work.
372
373
374+-------------------------------------+
375| OPERATING SYSTEM AND COMPILE QUIRKS |
376+-------------------------------------+
377
378GCC 2.5.x problems  *** IMPORTANT ***
379	Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 19:08:44 PST
380	From: wilson@cygnus.com (Jim Wilson)
381	Message-Id: <9311300308.AA04608@cygnus.com>
382	To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
383	Subject: [cattelan@thebarn.com: gcc 2.5.4-2.5.5 -O bug]
384	Cc: cattelan@thebarn.com, rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu, sendmail@cs.berkeley.edu
385
386	This fixes a problem that occurs when gcc 2.5.5 is used to compile
387	sendmail 8.6.4 with optimization on a sparc.
388
389	Mon Nov 29 19:00:14 1993  Jim Wilson  (wilson@sphagnum.cygnus.com)
390
391		* reload.c (find_reloads_toplev): Replace obsolete reference to
392		BYTE_LOADS_*_EXTEND with LOAD_EXTEND_OP.
393
394	*** clean-ss-931128/reload.c    Sun Nov 14 16:20:01 1993
395	--- ss-931128/reload.c  Mon Nov 29 18:52:55 1993
396	*************** find_reloads_toplev (x, opnum, type, ind
397	*** 3888,3894 ****
398		 force a reload in that case.  So we should not do anything here.  */
399
400		else if (regno >= FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER
401	! #if defined(BYTE_LOADS_ZERO_EXTEND) || defined(BYTE_LOADS_SIGN_EXTEND)
402		       && (GET_MODE_SIZE (GET_MODE (x))
403			   <= GET_MODE_SIZE (GET_MODE (SUBREG_REG (x))))
404	  #endif
405	--- 3888,3894 ----
406		 force a reload in that case.  So we should not do anything here.  */
407
408		else if (regno >= FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER
409	! #ifdef LOAD_EXTEND_OP
410		       && (GET_MODE_SIZE (GET_MODE (x))
411			   <= GET_MODE_SIZE (GET_MODE (SUBREG_REG (x))))
412	  #endif
413
414
415SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x)
416	You may have to use -lresolv on SunOS.  However, beware that
417	this links in a new version of gethostbyname that does not
418	understand NIS, so you must have all of your hosts in DNS.
419
420	Some people have reported problems with the SunOS version of
421	-lresolv and/or in.named, and suggest that you get a newer
422	version.  The symptoms are delays when you connect to the
423	SMTP server on a SunOS machine or having your domain added to
424	addresses inappropriately.  There is a version of BIND
425	version 4.9 on gatekeeper.DEC.COM in pub/BSD/bind/4.9.
426
427	There is substantial disagreement about whether you can make
428	this work with resolv+, which allows you to specify a search-path
429	of services.  Some people report that it works fine, others
430	claim it doesn't work at all (including causing sendmail to
431	drop core when it tries to do multiple resolv+ lookups for a
432	single job).  I haven't tried resolv+, as we use DNS exclusively.
433
434	Should you want to try resolv+, it is on ftp.uu.net in
435	/networking/ip/dns.
436
437Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x)
438	To compile for Solaris, be sure you use -DSOLARIS.
439
440	From a correspondent:
441
442	   For solaris 2.2, I have
443
444		hosts:      files dns
445
446	   in /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts has to have the fully
447	   qualified host name. I think "files" has to be before "dns"
448	   in /etc/nsswitch.conf during bootup.
449
450	To the best of my knowledge, Solaris does not have the
451	gethostbyname problem described above.
452
453	The Solaris "syslog" function is apparently limited to something
454	about 90 characters because of a kernel limitation.  If you have
455	source code, you can probably up this number.  You can get patches
456	that fix this problem: the patch ids are:
457
458		Solaris 2.1	100834
459		Solaris 2.2	100999
460		Solaris 2.3	101318
461
462	Be sure you have the appropriate patch installed or you won't
463	see system logging.
464
465OSF/1
466	If you are compiling on OSF/1 (DEC Alpha), you must use
467	-L/usr/shlib (otherwise it core dumps on startup).  You may also
468	need -mld to get the nlist() function, although some versions
469	apparently don't need this.
470
471	Also, the enclosed makefile removed /usr/sbin/smtpd; if you need
472	it, just create the link to the sendmail binary.
473
474NeXT
475	If you are compiling on NeXT, you will have to create an empty
476	file "unistd.h" and create a file "dirent.h" containing:
477
478		#include <sys/dir.h>
479		#define dirent	direct
480
481	(The Makefile.NeXT should try to do both of these for you.)
482
483	Apparently, there is a bug in getservbyname on Nextstep 3.0
484	that causes it to fail under some circumstances with the
485	message "SYSERR: service "smtp" unknown" logged.  You should
486	be able to work around this by including the line:
487
488		OOPort=25
489
490	in your .cf file.
491
492	You may have to use -DNeXT.
493
494BSDI (BSD/386) 1.0, NetBSD 0.9, FreeBSD 1.0
495	The "m4" from BSDI won't handle the config files properly.
496	I haven't had a chance to test this myself.
497
498	The M4 shipped in FreeBSD and NetBSD 0.9 don't handle the config
499	files properly. One must use either GNU m4 1.1 or the PD-M4
500	recently posted in comp.os.386bsd.bugs (and maybe others).
501	NetBSD-current includes the PD-M4 (as stated in the NetBSD file
502	CHANGES).
503
504	FreeBSD 1.0 RELEASE has uname(2) now. Use -DUSEUNAME in order to
505	use it (look into Makefile.FreeBSD). NetBSD-current may have
506	it too but it has not been verified.
507
508	You cannot port the latest version of the Berkeley db library
509	and use it with sendmail without recompiling the world.  This
510	is because C library routines use the older version which have
511	incompatible header files -- the result is that it can't read
512	other system files, such as /etc/passwd, unless you use the
513	new db format throughout your system.  You should normally just
514	use the version of db supplied in your release.  You may need
515	to use -DOLD_NEWDB to make this work -- this turns off some
516	new interface calls (for file locking) that are not in older
517	versions of db.  You'll get compile errors if you need this
518	flag and don't have it set.
519
5204.3BSD
521	If you are running a "virgin" version of 4.3BSD, you'll have
522	a very old resolver and be missing some header files.  The
523	header files are simple -- create empty versions and everything
524	will work fine.  For the resolver you should really port a new
525	version (4.8.3 or later) of the resolver; 4.9 is available on
526	gatekeeper.DEC.COM in pub/BSD/bind/4.9.  If you are really
527	determined to continue to use your old, buggy version (or as
528	a shortcut to get sendmail working -- I'm sure you have the
529	best intentions to port a modern version of BIND), you can
530	copy ../contrib/oldbind.compat.c into src and add
531	oldbind.compat.o to OBJADD in the Makefile.
532
533A/UX
534	Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 18:28:28 -0400 (EDT)
535	From: "Eric C. Hagberg" <hagberg@med.cornell.edu>
536	Subject: Fix for A/UX ndbm
537
538	I guess this isn't really a sendmail bug, however, it is something
539	that A/UX users should be aware of when compiling sendmail 8.6.
540
541	Apparently, the calls that sendmail is using to the ndbm routines
542	in A/UX 3.0.x contain calls to "broken" routines, in that the
543	aliases database will break when it gets "just a little big"
544	(sorry I don't have exact numbers here, but it broke somewhere
545	around 20-25 aliases for me.), making all aliases non-functional
546	after exceeding this point.
547
548	What I did was to get the gnu-dbm-1.6 package, compile it, and
549	then re-compile sendmail with "-lgdbm", "-DNDBM", and using the
550	ndbm.h header file that comes with the gnu-package. This makes
551	things behave properly.
552
553	I suppose porting the New Berkeley db package is another route,
554	however, I made a quick attempt at it, and found it difficult
555	(not easy at least); the gnu-dbm package "configured" and
556	compiled easily.
557
558DG/UX
559	Apparently, /bin/mail doesn't work properly for delivery on
560	DG/UX -- the person who has this working, Douglas Anderson
561	<dlander@afterlife.ncsc.mil>, used procmail instead.
562
563Apollo DomainOS
564	If you are compiling on Apollo, you will have to create an empty
565	file "unistd.h" and create a file "dirent.h" containing:
566
567		#include <sys/dir.h>
568		#define dirent	direct
569
570	(The Makefile.DomainOS will attempt to do both of these for you.)
571
572HP-UX 8.00
573	Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 13:25:45 +0200
574	From: Kimmo Suominen <Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi>
575	Subject: 8.6.5 w/ HP-UX 8.00 on s300
576
577	Just compiled and fought with sendmail 8.6.5 on a HP9000/360 (ie. a
578	series 300 machine) running HP-UX 8.00.
579
580	I was getting segmentation fault when delivering to a local user.
581	With debugging I saw it was faulting when doing _free@libc... *sigh*
582	It seems the new implementation of malloc on s300 is buggy as of 8.0,
583	so I tried out the one in -lmalloc (malloc(3X)).  With that it seems
584	to work just dandy.
585
586	When linking, you will get the following error:
587
588	ld: multiply defined symbol _freespace in file /usr/lib/libmalloc.a
589
590	but you can just ignore it.  You might want to add this info to the
591	README file for the future...
592
593Linux
594	Something broke between versions 0.99.13 and 0.99.14 of Linux:
595	the flock() system call gives errors.  If you are running .14,
596	you must not use flock.  You can do this with -DHASFLOCK=0.
597
598AIX
599	This version of sendmail does not support MB, MG, and MR resource
600	records, which are supported by AIX sendmail.
601
602System V Release 4 Based Systems
603	There is a single Makefile that is intended for all SVR4-based
604	systems (called Makefile.SVR4).  It defines __svr4__, which is
605	predefined by some compilers.  If your compiler already defines
606	this compile variable, you can delete the definition from the
607	Makefile.
608
609	It's been tested on Dell Issue 2.2.
610
611DELL SVR4
612	Date:      Mon, 06 Dec 1993 10:42:29 EST
613	From: "Kimmo Suominen" <kim@grendel.lut.fi>
614	Message-ID: <2d0352f9.lento29@lento29.UUCP>
615	To: eric@cs.berkeley.edu
616	Cc: sendmail@cs.berkeley.edu
617	Subject:   Notes for DELL SVR4
618
619	Eric,
620
621	Here are some notes for compiling Sendmail 8.6.4 on DELL SVR4.  I ran
622	across these things when helping out some people who contacted me by
623	e-mail.
624
625	1) Use gcc 2.4.5 (or later?).  Dell distributes gcc 2.1 with their
626	   Issue 2.2 Unix.  It is too old, and gives you problems with
627	   clock.c, because sigset_t won't get defined in <sys/signal.h>.
628	   This is due to a problematic protection rule in there, and is
629	   fixed with gcc 2.4.5.
630
631	2) If you don't use the new Berkeley DB (-DNEWDB), then you need
632	   to add "-lc -lucb" to the libraries to link with.  This is because
633	   the -ldbm distributed by Dell needs the bcopy, bcmp and bzero
634	   functions.  It is important that you specify both libraries in
635	   the given order to be sure you only get the BSTRING functions
636	   from the UCB library (and not the signal routines etc.).
637
638	3) Don't leave out "-lelf" even if compiling with "-lc -lucb".
639	   The UCB library also has another copy of the nlist routines,
640	   but we do want the ones from "-lelf".
641
642	If anyone needs a compiled gcc 2.4.5 and/or a ported DB library, they
643	can use anonymous ftp to fetch them from lut.fi in the /kim directory.
644	They are copies of what I use on grendel.lut.fi, and offering them
645	does not imply that I would also support them.  I have sent the DB
646	port for SVR4 back to Keith Bostic for inclusion in the official
647	distribution, but I haven't heard anything from him as of today.
648
649	- gcc-2.4.5-svr4.tar.gz	(gcc 2.4.5 and the corresponding libg++)
650	- db-1.72.tar.gz	(with source, objects and a installed copy)
651
652	Cheers
653	+ Kim
654	--
655	 *  Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi  *  SysVr4 enthusiast at GRENDEL.LUT.FI  *
656	*    KIM@FINFILES.BITNET   *  Postmaster and Hostmaster at LUT.FI   *
657	 *    + 358 200 865 718    *  Unix area moderator at NIC.FUNET.FI  *
658
659
660Non-DNS based sites
661	This version of sendmail always tries to connect to the Domain
662	Name System (DNS) to resolve names, regardless of the setting
663	of the `I' option.  On most systems that are not running DNS,
664	this will fail quickly and sendmail will continue, but on some
665	systems it has a long timeout.  If you have this problem, you
666	will have to recompile without NAMED_BIND.  Some people have
667	claimed that they have successfully used "OI+USEVC" to force
668	sendmail to use a virtual circuit -- this will always time out
669	quickly, but also tells sendmail that a failed connection
670	should requeue the message (probably not what you intended).
671	A future release of sendmail will correct this problem.
672
673Both NEWDB and NDBM
674	If you use both -DNDBM and -DNEWDB, you must delete the module
675	ndbm.o from libdb.a and delete the file "ndbm.h" from the files
676	that get installed (that is, use the OLD ndbm.h, not the new
677	ndbm.h).  This compatibility module maps ndbm calls into DB
678	calls, and breaks things rather badly.
679
680GNU getopt
681	I'm told that GNU getopt has a problem in that it gets confused
682	by the double call.  Use the version in conf.c instead.
683
684
685+--------------+
686| MANUAL PAGES |
687+--------------+
688
689The manual pages have been written against the -mandoc macros
690instead of the -man macros.  The latest version of groff has them
691included.  You can also get a copy from FTP.UU.NET in directory
692/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac.
693
694
695+-----------------+
696| DEBUGGING HOOKS |
697+-----------------+
698
699As of 8.6.5, sendmail daemons will catch a SIGUSR1 signal and log
700some debugging output (logged at LOG_DEBUG severity).  The
701information dumped is:
702
703 * The value of the $j macro.
704 * A warning if $j is not in the set $=w.
705 * A list of the open file descriptors.
706 * The contents of the connection cache.
707 * If ruleset 89 is defined, it is evaluated and the results printed.
708
709This allows you to get information regarding the runtime state of the
710daemon on the fly.  This should not be done too frequently, since
711the process of rewriting may lose memory which will not be recovered.
712Also, ruleset 89 may call non-reentrant routines, so there is a small
713non-zero probability that this will cause other problems.  It is
714really only for debugging serious problems.
715
716A typical formulation of ruleset 89 would be:
717
718	R$*		$@ $>0 some test address
719
720
721+-----------------------------+
722| DESCRIPTION OF SOURCE FILES |
723+-----------------------------+
724
725The following list describes the files in this directory:
726
727Makefile	The makefile used here; this version only works with
728		the new Berkeley make.
729Makefile.dist	A trimmed down version of the makefile that works with
730		the old make.
731READ_ME		This file.
732TRACEFLAGS	My own personal list of the trace flags -- not guaranteed
733		to be particularly up to date.
734alias.c		Does name aliasing in all forms.
735arpadate.c	A subroutine which creates ARPANET standard dates.
736clock.c		Routines to implement real-time oriented functions
737		in sendmail -- e.g., timeouts.
738collect.c	The routine that actually reads the mail into a temp
739		file.  It also does a certain amount of parsing of
740		the header, etc.
741conf.c		The configuration file.  This contains information
742		that is presumed to be quite static and non-
743		controversial, or code compiled in for efficiency
744		reasons.  Most of the configuration is in sendmail.cf.
745conf.h		Configuration that must be known everywhere.
746convtime.c	A routine to sanely process times.
747daemon.c	Routines to implement daemon mode.  This version is
748		specifically for Berkeley 4.1 IPC.
749deliver.c	Routines to deliver mail.
750domain.c	Routines that interface with DNS (the Domain Name
751		System).
752err.c		Routines to print error messages.
753envelope.c	Routines to manipulate the envelope structure.
754headers.c	Routines to process message headers.
755macro.c		The macro expander.  This is used internally to
756		insert information from the configuration file.
757main.c		The main routine to sendmail.  This file also
758		contains some miscellaneous routines.
759map.c		Support for database maps.
760mci.c		Routines that handle mail connection information caching.
761parseaddr.c	The routines which do address parsing.
762queue.c		Routines to implement message queueing.
763readcf.c	The routine that reads the configuration file and
764		translates it to internal form.
765recipient.c	Routines that manipulate the recipient list.
766savemail.c	Routines which save the letter on processing errors.
767sendmail.h	Main header file for sendmail.
768srvrsmtp.c	Routines to implement server SMTP.
769stab.c		Routines to manage the symbol table.
770stats.c		Routines to collect and post the statistics.
771sysexits.c	List of error messages associated with error codes
772		in sysexits.h.
773trace.c		The trace package.  These routines allow setting and
774		testing of trace flags with a high granularity.
775udb.c		The user database interface module.
776usersmtp.c	Routines to implement user SMTP.
777util.c		Some general purpose routines used by sendmail.
778version.c	The version number and information about this
779		version of sendmail.  Theoretically, this gets
780		modified on every change.
781
782Eric Allman
783
784(Version 8.55, last update 03/06/94 09:06:08)
785