If you've ever written a perl script to parse sendmail log files looking for errors, MEWS might be of interest to you. If you've ever thought about writing a perl script to munge sendmail log files, cringed a little and hurriedly came up with an excuse not to do it, read on. If you don't have a Solaris 2.5 machine, you can probably stop reading here. The Mail Early Warning System (MEWS) gives postmasters immediate notification of trouble spots on your mail backbone. It only works with sendmail. To explain it in a nutshell, whenever sendmail returns a 4xx or 5xx SMTP code, with the MEWS modifications, it also sends the code over UDP to a daemon which then replays the error message to interested parties. The man pages go into a little bit more detail.If this sounds like something you might be interested in getting more details about, you can find the MEWS archive at ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/pub/people/eamonn/mews.tar.Z.
The recommended program for this is "checksendmail" by Rob Kolstad. Old versions of this are available on various archive sites, but currently, the only way to get the most recent version (which has been updated to understand version 8.7 long option name syntax, as well as now supporting both Perl 4.x and Perl 5.x) is from Rob himself.
The latest archive will be made publicly available (most likely through the SMTPRD run by Andras Salamon; see Q6.5, entry sendmail-faq//online/index/14) as soon as it is received.
The program "procmail" is a replacement for the local mailer (variously called /bin/mail, /usr/bin/mail, mail.local, rmail, etc...). It has been ported to run on virtually every Unix-like OS you're likely to run into, and has a whole host of features. It is typically about 30% faster performing the job of the local mailer than programs such as /bin/mail or /usr/bin/mail, it has been hammered on widely to make it extremely secure (much more so than most local mailers) and very robust. Procmail is also capable of helping you put a quota on a user's mailbox through the standard Unix quota mechanism (see Q4.3).
In short, whatever you've got, you're almost guaranteed that procmail is better (if nothing else, the author has been able to focus lots of time and energy into making it the best and fastest tool available, while most system vendors just throw something together as fast as they can and move on to the whole rest of the OS).
However, this only begins to scratch the surface of what procmail is capable of. It's most important feature is the fact that it gives you a standard way to create rules (procmail calls them "recipes") to process your mail before the messages get put into your mailbox, and for that feature alone, it is one of the most important tools any administrator can have in their repertoire. By filtering out or automatically dealing with 80% of your daily cruft, it lets you spend more time on the hard 20%.
Note that recent releases of version 8 sendmail natively support using procmail as an alternate local mailer (see "FEATURE(local_procmail)" for version 8.7 and above). They also support procmail as an additional local mailer, if you're concerned about flat-out replacing your current local mailer with procmail (see "MAILER(procmail)" in version 8.7 and above).
You can also install procmail as a user and run it out of your .forward file, although this tends to be a bit slower and less efficient.
The latest version of procmail can be found at ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/.
Procmail is also the core to a mailing list management package called "SmartList", so if you've already got procmail, adding SmartList may be a good option. Some listowners prefer Majordomo, Listserv, or one of those other programs, but SmartList has more than a few adherents as well. Your personal tastes will dictate whether you swear by SmartList or at it.
I upgraded from my vendor's sendmail to the latest version and now I'm getting these error messages when I run "newaliases":
/etc/aliases: line 13: MAILER-DAEMON... cannot alias non-local names
/etc/aliases: line 14: postmaster... cannot alias non-local names
How can I solve this problem?
Your local mailer doesn't have the "A" flag specified. Edit the Mlocal line in sendmail.cf and add "A" to the flags listed after "F=".
Better yet, if you're running a recent version of sendmail that uses m4 to generate .cf files from .mc files, regenerate your sendmail.cf and see if that fixes the problem. Remember to install the new sendmail.cf and restart the sendmail daemon.
Quoth Eric Allman:
... I can make the following assurances:Internally, sendmail represents dates in the Unix native format: seconds since January 1, 1970. This does not overflow until well after the year 2000.
Externally, sendmail always represents dates using four digit years, as required by the applicable Internet standards.
At no time does sendmail store dates using only the last two digits of the year. However, if a
Date:field is received that has a two digit year, sendmail does not attempt to repair that damage. However, neither does it attempt to interpret the date.
First, you need to get sendmail not to use DNS on your local machine so your host doesn't trying to connect to your ISP for a DNS query. See Q3.22 for more information.
You also need to designate a "smart host" or external relay to handle all mail that you can't deliver locally (this would be your ISP's mailhost).
You need to configure it so that the smtp mailer is considered
"expensive" by adding the F=e mailer flag and tell sendmail
not to connect to expensive mailers by default by setting the
HoldExpensive option to True.
You need to add mydomain.com to the sendmail.cw
file or the Cw line in the sendmail.cf. See
Q4.5.
Finally, you need to run a program periodically to check in with your ISP and get them to deliver any mail they may have queued for you. See Q3.23.
When I use sendmail V8 with a Sun config file I get lines like:
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 273: replacement $3 out of boundsthe line in question reads:
R$*<@$%y>$* $1<@$2.LOCAL>$3 user@etherwhat does this mean? How do I fix it?
V8 doesn't recognize the Sun "$%y" syntax, so as far as it is concerned, there is only a $1 and a $2 (but no $3) in this line. Read Rick McCarty's paper on "Converting Standard Sun Config Files to Sendmail Version 8", in the contrib directory (file "converting.sun.configs") in the latest version 8 sendmail distribution for a full discussion of how to do this.
When I use sendmail V8 on a Sun, I sometimes get lines like:
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 445: bad ruleset 96 (50 max)what does this mean? How do I fix it?
You're somehow trying to start up the old Sun sendmail (or sendmail.mx) with a version 8 sendmail config file, which Sun's sendmail doesn't like. Check your /etc/rc.local, any procedures that have been created to stop and re-start the sendmail processes, etc.... Make sure that you've switched everything over to using the new sendmail. To keep this problem from ever happening again, try the following (make sure you're logged in as root):
mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.old ln -s /usr/local/lib/sendmail.v8 /usr/lib/sendmail mv /usr/lib/sendmail.mx /usr/lib/sendmail.mx.old ln -s /usr/local/lib/sendmail.v8 /usr/lib/sendmail.mx chmod 0000 /usr/lib/sendmail.old chmod 0000 /usr/lib/sendmail.mx.oldAssuming, of course, that you have installed sendmail V8 in /usr/local/lib/sendmail.v8.
In moving from Solaris 2.4 to Solaris 2.5, the kernel changed its name and is now in /kernel/genunix instead of /kernel/unix, so _PATH_UNIX in conf.h is pointing to the wrong place.
If you can't upgrade to the latest release of sendmail 8.8.z, the next best thing to do is change _PATH_UNIX in conf.h (in the solaris2 part) to point to the generic interface /dev/ksyms, like so:
# define _PATH_UNIX "/dev/ksyms"
This is most likely a problem in your resolver libraries (DNS, /etc/hosts, NIS, etc...). Older Sun (and Solaris?) resolver libraries allocated enough room for only five IP addresses for each host name, and if any program ever ran across a name with more than five IP addresses for it, the program would crash.
For example, this would keep you from getting mail to CompuServe, since (at the time of this writing) they list eleven IP addresses for mx1.compuserve.com (one of the named MXes for compuserve.com).
This will affect you even if you use version 8 sendmail, since it's a problem in the resolver libraries, and not in sendmail itself.
You should either get patches to the resolver libraries from Sun, or the latest version of BIND (see Q2.12) and install their resolver library routines. Between the two, installing BIND is a bit more work, but it typically gives you much more up-to-date code to help you resist attacks to your systems, more capable programs to be used for serving the DNS (including support for IPv6 and several other features), and some very useful utility programs.
Many people have experienced compilation problems on Solaris, with
the compiler typically complaining about tm_zone or
TopFrame. The Solaris
section of our Compiling Sendmail page
explains these.
With a Vn/Berkeley config file, they're identical.
There are a few minor differences between 8.X with a
Vn/Berkeley config file and 8.X+Sun
with the same config file, but the V line changed to
Vn/Sun. But most differences are the backwards
compatibility hacks needed for 8.X+Sun to support old
V1/Sun config files.
There are three web pages which discuss these in detail: Berkeley migration (from SMI-8.6 to 8.X), Sun migration (from SMI-8.6 to 8.X+Sun), and Differences (5 sections comparing and contrasting config files and binaries).
When I use version 8 sendmail on an IBM RS/6000 running AIX, the system resource controller always reports sendmail as "inoperative", even though it's actually running. What's wrong?
When running as a daemon, sendmail detaches from its parent process, fooling the SRC into thinking that sendmail has exited. To fix this, issue the commands:
kill `head -1 /etc/sendmail.pid` chssys -s sendmail -f 9 -n 15 -S -a "-d99.100" # use "-d0.1" in sendmail 8.6.x startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m" # your sendmail args may varyNow the SRC should report the correct status of sendmail. If you are using version 8.6.x, use "-d0.1" instead of "-d99.100" (the debug options changed somewhat in version 8.7). In 8.6.x a side-effect of the "-d0.1" option is that a few lines of debug output will be printed on the system console every time sendmail starts up.
For more information, read up on the System Resource Controller, the lssrc command and the chssys command in the online AIX documentation.
When I use IBM's sendmail on an IBM RS/6000 running AIX trying to get to certain sites, it seems that I can get to some of them and not others. What's wrong?
There are two possible problems here:
1) Your version of sendmail is not configured to recognize MX records in the DNS. Search through your sendmail.cf looking for "OK MX" or "OK ALL". Older configurations had this line commented out, and this will cause mail from you to some sites to fail (because those sites have MX records, but no A records in their DNS for the specific Fully Qualified Domain Name you're trying to mail to).
For more information, see the comp.unix.aix FAQ ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/aix-faq/.
2) There is a negative caching bug in AIX 3.2.5 with /usr/sbin/named executables that are less than 103000 bytes long. Ask your IBM representative to give you PMP 3251, or the most recent patch that fixes this problem for your particular configuration and version of the OS.
IBM, in their infinite wisdom, provided a header file that would easily mis-compile. This resulted in the struct{} for the DNS query to be mis-allocated, and MX processing would barf.
Fix 1) upgrade to 8.7.5 - this has a code fix for this problem.
Fix 2) Install the BIND 4.9.4 libraries and include files and tweak the Makefile.AIX to use them - I *think* these Get It Right (if not, at least it'll die during compile rather than failing weirdly at runtime).
Fix 3) Hack Makefile.AIX to pass a -DBIT_ZERO_ON_LEFT to cause the headers to use the right #ifdefs. 6. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SOURCES (RFC 1807 bibliography format)
This probably isn't in strict RFC 1807 format, but I'm getting closer. Unfortunately, the format detailed in RFC 1807 was never intended to be used in this fashion, so I'm doing a bit of square-peg fitting into round holes.
Note that the publisher ids that I've assigned should not be misconstrued to imply that I have actually published all these documents, it's just that I need some sort of reasonable entry for the RFC 1807 "ID" field, and in lieu of information to the contrary indicating what the actual publishers have registered, I have assigned my own, independent, "third-party" IDs. Hopefully, the bibliographic entries below make it obvious who the real publishers of the various documents are.
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/reference/1
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference manual, available online in printable format
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; Updated "CONTACT" information
TITLE:: Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide
AUTHOR:: Allman, Eric
CONTACT:: Eric Allman <eric@Sendmail.ORG>
DATE:: November 19, 1995
PAGES:: 69
RETRIEVAL:: Contents of manual is in doc/op/op.ps of sendmail source
archive
KEYWORD:: version 8.7.5 sendmail
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: {g|n}roff "me" macro format version is in doc/op/op.me
See: URL:http://www.sendmail.org/
ABSTRACT::
The documentation written by Eric Allman himself, comes with the sendmail distribution. The file in doc/op/op.me (nroff "me" macro format) may have a different number of pages depending on the type of device it is printed on, etc....
Eric provides his free consulting in the form of continuing development on sendmail, and occasional posts to comp.mail.sendmail. Please don't be so rude as to ask him to provide further free consulting directly to you. If you (or your company) are willing to compensate him for his consulting time, he may be willing to listen. At the very least, you should make sure you've exhausted all other courses of action before resorting to adding another message to the thousands he gets per day.
Check the sendmail home page for late-breaking updates and other useful information.
If you want to be notified regarding future updates to sendmail and other items of potential interest, you may want to subscribe to the sendmail-announce mailing list. Address your subscription requests to "majordomo@lists.sendmail.org" with "subscribe sendmail-announce" as the body of the message.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/reference/1
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-222-0
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; Updated entire entry re: 2nd Ed.
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
TITLE:: sendmail
AUTHOR:: Costales, Bryan
AUTHOR:: Allman, Eric
CONTACT:: Bryan Costales <bcx@BCX.COM>
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Sebastapol, CA 95472
Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries)
800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders)
707-829-0515 (local/overseas)
DATE:: January, 1997
PAGES:: 1021
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1997 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights
reserved.
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/catalog/sendmail2/
ABSTRACT::
The definitive reference for version 8 sendmail (specifically, version 8.8). If you can have only one book on the subject of sendmail, this one is it.
Bryan provides his consulting to the world in the form of his book, unless you're willing to compensate him for his services as well. Like Eric, you should make sure you've exhausted all other courses of action before you spend any of his valuable time.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-222-0
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-55558-127-7
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: Sep 9, 1996; fixed typo
TITLE:: Sendmail: Theory and Practice
AUTHOR:: Avolio, Frederick M.
AUTHOR:: Vixie, Paul A.
CONTACT:: Fred Avolio <fma@al.org>, Paul Vixie <vix@al.org>
Digital Press
225 Wildwood Avenue
Woburn, MA 01801, USA
Ordering Info: voice 1 800 366 2665
fax 1 800 446 6520
DATE:: 1994
PAGES:: 262
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) by 1995 Butterworth-Heinemann
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.vix.com/vix/smtap/
ABSTRACT::
Centers more on IDA sendmail (at least partly because version 8 didn't exist when they began the book). Written more like a college Sophomore or Junior level textbook.
While you'll probably never let the Costales book out of your grubby little hands (especially if you do much work with version 8 sendmail), this is a book you'll probably read once or maybe twice, learn some very valuable things, but then likely put on a shelf and not read or reference again (unless you have to write up a bibliographic entry for it). Makes a better introduction to sendmail for management types, especially if you don't want them getting their hands on too much "dangerous" technical information. Also a *lot* smaller and less imposing.
If possible, I recommend getting both, but if you can only get one, get Costales unless you're going to be working exclusively with IDA sendmail, in which case Avolio & Vixie will probably be more useful.
Note that Paul Vixie is extremely busy working on further development of BIND, the Internet de facto standard program for serving the DNS, upon which all Internet services depend, mail being only one of them. Like Eric and Bryan, he's also very busy. Unless you're willing to compensate him for his services, please let him get real work done.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-55558-127-7
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-13-151051-7
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: May 23, 1996; Updated abstract.
TITLE:: Unix System Administration Handbook, Second Edition
AUTHOR:: Nemeth, Evi
AUTHOR:: Snyder, Garth
AUTHOR:: Seebass, Scott
AUTHOR:: Hein, Trent R.
CONTACT:: <sa-book@admin.com>
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458
DATE:: January, 1995
PAGES:: 780
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.admin.com/
ABSTRACT::
Still the best hands-on Unix System Administration book around. Covers far more than just sendmail, but the sixty-four pages (pages 455-518 in the third printing) it does devote are very well written and quite useful. Also provides a version of Rob Kolstad's checksendmail script on the accompanying CD-ROM.
Note that Eric Allman and Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote the Foreword for the Second Edition. This should give you at least an inkling as to how essential this book is, even for experienced Unix administrators.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-13-151051-7
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-201-58629=0
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; Changed ID format to include ISBN,
moved URL to NOTES field from OTHER_ACCESS field,
also updated ABSTRACT
REVISION:: March 29, 1996; Updated ID, PAGES, COPYRIGHT, and ABSTRACT
TITLE:: Practical Internetworking With TCP/IP and UNIX
AUTHOR:: Carl-Mitchell, Smoot
AUTHOR:: Quarterman, John S.
CONTACT:: <tic@tic.com>
Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Computer Science & Engineering Division
One Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
USA
Orders: voice://800-822-6339 (USA)
fax://617-942-1117
DATE:: 1993
PAGES:: 476
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1993 by Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company, Inc.
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See URL:http://heg-school.aw.com/cseng/authors/mitchell/
practical/practical.html
ABSTRACT::
Devotes 50 pages (most of chapter 8) to discussion of sendmail. As far as TCP/IP networking books go that also happen to discuss sendmail, it seems well-written and clear (better than I recall Hunt's book being), but rather dated in the face of books devoted to the topic and all the recent development activity in the sendmail community. Forget about the references, though. The newest sendmail-related reference listed is dated 1983, ten years before the date on this book and most certainly wildly out-of-date now.
There are other books written on the subject of Internetworking with TCP/IP (most notably Comer), but this particular book seems to have a unique mix of theory (if perhaps a bit dated) and practical advice. Other books tend to have lots of one or the other, or split their theory and nitty-gritty details into separate books in a series (like Comer).
Assuming that an update will be coming out soon, it probably deserves a place on the shelf of most System or Network Administrators, right next to _Internetworking with TCP/IP_ by Comer, _Managing Internet Information Services_ by Liu, et. al., _DNS and BIND_ by Albitz and Liu, _Unix System Administration_ by Nemeth, et. al., and last, but certainly not least, _sendmail_ by Costales. However, it deserves this place more because of the non-sendmail related material, as opposed to what sendmail-related material there is.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-201-58629-0
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-82-X
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; updated URL in NOTES section
TITLE:: TCP/IP Network Administration
AUTHOR:: Hunt, Craig
CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Sebastapol, CA 95472
Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries)
800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders)
707-829-0515 (local/overseas)
DATE:: August, 1992
PAGES:: 502
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/catalog/tcp/
ABSTRACT::
The book I learned sendmail from when there was no other book in print that even mentioned the name.
Here primarily for historical purposes, especially with respect to the sending of Internet mail and the DNS. Some of the other TCP/IP networking stuff is relevant, but this book is getting more and more dated as time goes by.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-82-X
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-236-0
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; Updated entire entry for 2nd Ed.
TITLE:: DNS and BIND
AUTHOR:: Albitz, Paul
AUTHOR:: Liu, Cricket
CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries)
800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders)
707-829-0515 (local/overseas)
DATE:: January, 1997
PAGES:: 418
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1997 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights
reserved.
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/catalog/dns2/
ABSTRACT::
As definitive as Costales is on sendmail, this book is on the subject of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the most common server software for the DNS, namely BIND.
The second edition has been updated to reflect the changes in BIND up through version 4.9.4, but even the first edition still stands the test of time as the one book *every* DNS/Domain Administrator should have on their shelf. The second edition is just that much better.
Since the sending of Internet mail is so very heavily dependant on the DNS, it obviously also belongs on the shelf of any Postmaster or System Administrator whose site does Internet email. That means virtually every administrator of every site on the Internet.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-236-0
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-153-4
ENTRY:: April 8, 1997
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
TITLE:: Using & Managing UUCP
AUTHOR:: Ravin, Ed
AUTHOR:: O'Reilly, Tim
AUTHOR:: Dougherty, Dale
AUTHOR:: Todino, Grace
CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries)
800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders)
707-829-0515 (local/overseas)
DATE:: September, 1996
PAGES:: 424
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/catalog/umuucp/
ABSTRACT::
Replaces _Managing UUCP and Usenet_ by Todino and O'Reilly as the definitive book for using, installing, and managing UUCP.
The general assumption with version 8 sendmail is that virtually no one uses UUCP to send email anymore, but if that assumption isn't true for you, then you probably need this book.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-153-4
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/10
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: comp.mail.sendmail FAQ Support Page
AUTHOR:: Knowles, Brad
CONTACT:: Brad Knowles <brad@etext.org>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.his.com/~brad/sendmail/
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Support Page for this FAQ.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/10
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/17
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: comp.mail.sendmail Most Frequently Asked Questions Support Page
AUTHOR:: Assman, Claus
CONTACT:: Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/english.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Most Frequently Asked Questions on comp.mail.sendmail and their answers. Also has some links to a few other resources.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/17
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/resources/22
ENTRY:: November 24, 1996
TITLE:: IICONS Sendmail Resources
AUTHOR:: Caloca, Paul
CONTACT:: Paul Caloca <pcaloca@iicons.com>
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1996 Paul Caloca. All Rights Reserved.
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.iicons.com/sendmail/index.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Provides information on how to compile Sendmail and the NEWDB db.1.85 for Solaris 2. Also has a section on which Sun patches update Solaris 2 to BIND 4.9.3.
Has pointers to some non-Sun/Solaris sendmail resources, especially including CERT Advisories related to sendmail.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/22
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/12
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: Internet Mail Consortium web site
CORP-AUTHOR:: Internet Mail Consortium
CONTACT:: <info@imc.org>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.imc.org/
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
If it has to do with Internet email, you'll probably find it here or a link to it from here.
They have or have information on email-related Usenet FAQs, RFCs, Internet Drafts (documents that are in the process of becoming RFCs), IETF Working Groups, security standards, and are running a few email-related mailing lists.
Tends to be focussed on the standards issues.
If you care about Internet email, you should make it your duty in life to check this site frequently.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/12
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/13
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: August 20, 1996; Updated URL.
TITLE:: Email References
AUTHOR:: Wohler, Bill
CONTACT:: Bill Wohler <wohler@worldtalk.com>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.worldtalk.com/html/msg_resources/email_ref.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
The most exhaustive index site I know of for Internet email related documents outside of the Internet Mail Consortium.
Also has pointers to other organizations that relate to Internet email, such as the Electronic Messaging Association and the European Electronic Messaging Association.
Tends to be focussed on the server and standards issues.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/13
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/14
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: June 28, 1996; Added acronym for SMTPRD
TITLE:: SMTP Resources Directory (SMTPRD)
AUTHOR:: Salamon, Andras
AUTHOR:: Knowles, Brad
CONTACT:: Andras Salamon <smtprd@dns.net>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.dns.net/smtprd/
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Another good index site, but still very much in the early phases of gestation. Based very heavily on the DNS Resources Directory, also by Andras Salamon.
A well-rounded site, for the amount of material it covers so far.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/14
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/15
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: E-Mail Web Resources
AUTHOR:: Wall, Matt
CONTACT:: Matt Wall <wall+@cmu.edu>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/email/email.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Another good index site, tends to be more focussed on client side and LAN email packages. Also lists some email services, which no one else that I've seen appears to have taken the time to catalog.
Excellent side-by-side feature comparison of various MUAs and their compliance with various Internet protocols.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/15
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/9
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
REVISION:: August 29, 1998; updated URL.
TITLE:: Sendmail V8: A (Smoother) Engine Powers Network Email
AUTHOR:: Reich, Richard
CONTACT:: Richard Reich <richard@reich.com>
DATE:: February 8, 1996
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/
008/008.txt.html
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: UnixWorld Online: Tutorial: Article No. 008
ABSTRACT::
Good technical introduction. Some useful references. Notably does not reference this FAQ as a place to get more information.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/article/9
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/16
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: Sendmail -- Care and Feeding
AUTHOR:: Quinton, Reg
CONTACT:: Reg Quinton <reggers@julian.uwo.ca>
Computing and Communications Services
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6A 5B7
Canada
DATE:: March 24, 1992
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mail/sendmail/uwo-course/
sendmail.txt.Z
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: Postscript version also available. See ftp://ftp.sterling.com/
mail/sendmail/uwo-course/sendmail.ps.Z
ABSTRACT::
Dated. Only here until I find better.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/16
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/21
ENTRY:: March 27, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial
REVISION:: August 29, 1998; updated URL.
TITLE:: Explosion in a Punctuation Factory
AUTHOR:: Bryan Costales
CONTACT:: Becca Thomas <editor@unixworld.com>
DATE:: January 1994
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/
01/01.txt.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Good introduction on how sendmail re-write rules work.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/article/21
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/18
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: DejaNews
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.dejanews.com
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: Archives/indexes only Usenet news.
ABSTRACT::
The first, and still most focussed, Usenet news archive/index site. Others archive/index news as well as other things, but none that I've seen do it better.
Go to "Power Search" then "Query Filter" if you wish to restrict the newsgroups you search on to something like just comp.mail.sendmail and not all newsgroups.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/18
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/19
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: AltaVista
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.altavista.digital.com
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: Archives/indexes Usenet news and World-wide web pages.
ABSTRACT::
One of the leading indexes of world-wide web pages, and their archive/index of Usenet news is obviously secondary.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/19
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/20
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; Additional information based on experience
TITLE:: InReference
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.reference.com
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