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+ NEW SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILES
+
+ Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
+
+ @(#)README 8.28 (Berkeley) 4/14/94
+
+
+This document describes the sendmail configuration files being used
+at Berkeley. These use features in the new (R8) sendmail, and although
+there is an ``OLDSENDMAIL'' mode, they haven't really been tested on
+old versions of sendmail and cannot be expected to work well.
+
+These configuration files are probably not as general as previous
+versions, and don't handle as many of the weird cases automagically.
+I was able to simplify by them for two reasons. First, the network
+has become more consistent -- for example, at this point, everyone
+on the internet is supposed to be running a name server, so hacks to
+handle NIC-registered hosts can go away. Second, I assumed that a
+subdomain would be running SMTP internally -- UUCP is presumed to be
+a long-haul protocol. I realize that this is not universal, but it
+does describe the vast majority of sites with which I am familiar,
+including those outside the US.
+
+Of course, the downside of this is that if you do live in a weird
+world, things are going to get weirder for you. I'm sorry about that,
+but at the time we at Berkeley had a problem, and it seemed like the
+right thing to do.
+
+This package requires a post-V7 version of m4; if you are running the
+4.2bsd, SysV.2, or 7th Edition version, I suggest finding a friend with
+a newer version. You can m4-expand on their system, then run locally.
+SunOS's /usr/5bin/m4 or BSD-Net/2's m4 both work. GNU m4 version 1.1
+also works. Unfortunately, I'm told that the M4 on BSDI 1.0 doesn't
+work -- you'll have to use a Net/2 or GNU version.
+
+IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BERKELEY MAKE, don't despair! Just run
+"m4 foo.mc > foo.cf" -- that should be all you need. There is also
+a fairly crude (but functional) Makefile.dist that works on the
+old version of make.
+
+To get started, you may want to look at tcpproto.mc (for TCP-only
+sites), uucpproto.mc (for UUCP-only sites), and clientproto.mc (for
+clusters of clients using a single mail host). Others are versions
+that we use at Berkeley, although not all are in current use. For
+example, ucbarpa has gone away, but I've left ucbarpa.mc in because
+it demonstrates some interesting techniques.
+
+I'm not pretending that this README describes everything that these
+configuration files can do; clever people can probably tweak them
+to great effect. But it should get you started.
+
+*******************************************************************
+*** BE SURE YOU CUSTOMIZE THESE FILES! They have some ***
+*** Berkeley-specific assumptions built in, such as the name ***
+*** of our UUCP-relay. You'll want to create your own domain ***
+*** description, and use that in place of domain/Berkeley.m4. ***
+*******************************************************************
+
+
++--------------------------+
+| INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLE |
++--------------------------+
+
+Configuration files are contained in the subdirectory "cf", with a
+suffix ".mc". They must be run through "m4" to produce a ".cf" file.
+
+Let's examine a typical .mc file (cf/cs-exposed.mc):
+
+ divert(-1)
+ #
+ # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman
+ # Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
+ # All rights reserved.
+ #
+ # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
+ # provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
+ # duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
+ # advertising materials, and other materials related to such
+ # distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
+ # by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
+ # University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
+ # from this software without specific prior written permission.
+ # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
+ # IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
+ # WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+ #
+
+The divert(-1) will delete the crud in the resulting output file.
+The copyright notice is what your lawyers require. Our lawyers require
+the one that I've included in my files. A copyleft is a copyright by
+another name.
+
+The next line MUST be
+
+ include(`../m4/cf.m4')
+
+This will pull in the M4 macros you will need to make sense of
+everything else. As the saying goes, don't think about it, just
+do it. If you don't do it, don't bother reading the rest of this
+file.
+
+ VERSIONID(`<SCCS or RCS version id>')
+
+VERSIONID is a macro that stuffs the version information into the
+resulting file. We use SCCS; you could use RCS, something else, or
+omit it completely. This is not the same as the version id included
+in SMTP greeting messages -- this is defined in m4/version.m4.
+
+ DOMAIN(cs.exposed)
+
+This example exposes the host inside of the CS subdomain -- that is,
+it doesn't try to hide the name of the workstation to the outside
+world. Changing this to DOMAIN(cs.hidden) would have made outgoing
+messages refer to "<username>@CS.Berkeley.EDU" instead of using the
+local hostname. Internally this is effected by using
+"MASQUERADE_AS(CS.Berkeley.EDU)".
+
+ MAILER(smtp)
+
+These describe the mailers used at the default CS site site. The
+local mailer is always included automatically.
+
+
++--------+
+| OSTYPE |
++--------+
+
+Note that cf/cs-exposed.mc omits an OSTYPE macro -- this assumes
+default Computer Science Division environment. There are several
+explicit environments available: bsd4.3, bsd4.4, hpux, irix, osf1,
+riscos4.5, sunos3.5, sunos4.1, and ultrix4.1. These change things
+like the location of the alias file and queue directory. Some of
+these files are identical to one another.
+
+Operating system definitions are easy to write. They may define
+the following variables (everything defaults, so an ostype file
+may be empty).
+
+ALIAS_FILE [/etc/aliases] The location of the text version
+ of the alias file(s). It can be a comma-separated
+ list of names (but be sure you quote values with
+ comments in them -- for example, use
+ define(`ALIAS_FILE', `a,b')
+ to get "a" and "b" both listed as alias files;
+ otherwise the define() primitive only sees "a").
+HELP_FILE [/usr/lib/sendmail.hf] The name of the file
+ containing information printed in response to
+ the SMTP HELP command.
+QUEUE_DIR [/var/spool/mqueue] The directory containing
+ queue files.
+STATUS_FILE [/etc/sendmail.st] The file containing status
+ information.
+LOCAL_MAILER_PATH [/bin/mail] The program used to deliver local mail.
+LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS [rmn] The flags used by the local mailer. The
+ flags lsDFM are always included.
+LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS [mail -d $u] The arguments passed to deliver local
+ mail.
+LOCAL_SHELL_PATH [/bin/sh] The shell used to deliver piped email.
+LOCAL_SHELL_FLAGS [eu] The flags used by the shell mailer. The
+ flags lsDFM are always included.
+LOCAL_SHELL_ARGS [sh -c $u] The arguments passed to deliver "prog"
+ mail.
+USENET_MAILER_PATH [/usr/lib/news/inews] The name of the program
+ used to submit news.
+USENET_MAILER_FLAGS [rlsDFMmn] The mailer flags for the usenet mailer.
+USENET_MAILER_ARGS [-m -h -n] The command line arguments for the
+ usenet mailer.
+USENET_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size of messages that will
+ be accepted by the usenet mailer.
+SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to SMTP mailer. Default
+ flags are `mDFMUX' (and `a' for esmtp mailer).
+SMTP_MAILER_MAX [undefined] The maximum size of messages that will
+ be transported using the smtp or esmtp mailers.
+UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS [undefined] Flags added to UUCP mailer. Default
+ flags are `DFMhuU' (and `m' for suucp mailer, minus
+ `U' for uucp-dom mailer).
+UUCP_MAILER_ARGS [uux - -r -z -a$f -gC $h!rmail ($u)] The arguments
+ passed to the UUCP mailer.
+UUCP_MAX_SIZE [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
+ transmission by the UUCP mailers.
+FAX_MAILER_PATH [/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax] The program used to
+ submit FAX messages.
+FAX_MAILER_MAX [100000] The maximum size message accepted for
+ transmission by FAX.
+
++---------+
+| DOMAINS |
++---------+
+
+You will probably want to collect domain-dependent defines into one
+file, referenced by the DOMAIN macro. For example, our Berkeley
+domain file includes definitions for several internal distinguished
+hosts:
+
+UUCP_RELAY The host that will forward UUCP-addressed email.
+ If not defined, all UUCP sites must be directly
+ connected.
+BITNET_RELAY The host that will forward BITNET-addressed email.
+ If not defined, the .BITNET pseudo-domain won't work.
+LOCAL_RELAY The site that will handle unqualified names -- that
+ is, names with out an @domain extension. If not set,
+ they are assumed to belong on this machine. This
+ allows you to have a central site to store a
+ company- or department-wide alias database. This
+ only works at small sites, and there are better
+ methods.
+
+Each of these can be either ``mailer:hostname'' (in which case the
+mailer is the internal mailer name, such as ``suucp'' and the hostname
+is the name of the host as appropriate for that mailer) or just a
+``hostname'', in which case a default mailer type (usually ``relay'',
+a variant on SMTP) is used. WARNING: if you have a wildcard MX
+record matching your domain, you probably want to define these to
+have a trailing dot so that you won't get the mail diverted back
+to yourself.
+
+The domain file can also be used to define a domain name, if needed
+(using "DD<domain>") and set certain site-wide features. If all hosts
+at your site masquerade behind one email name, you could also use
+MASQUERADE_AS here.
+
+You do not have to define a domain -- in particular, if you are a
+single machine sitting off somewhere, it is probably more work than
+it's worth. This is just a mechanism for combining "domain dependent
+knowledge" into one place.
+
++---------+
+| MAILERS |
++---------+
+
+There are fewer mailers supported in this version than the previous
+version, owing mostly to a simpler world.
+
+local The local and prog mailers. You will almost always
+ need these; the only exception is if you relay ALL
+ your mail to another site. This mailer is included
+ automatically.
+
+smtp The Simple Mail Transport Protocol mailer. This does
+ not hide hosts behind a gateway or another other
+ such hack; it assumes a world where everyone is
+ running the name server. This file actually defines
+ three mailers: "smtp" for regular (old-style) SMTP to
+ other servers, "esmtp" for extended SMTP to other
+ servers, and "relay" for transmission to our
+ RELAY_HOST or MAILER_HUB.
+
+uucp The Unix-to-Unix Copy Program mailer. Actually, this
+ defines two mailers, "uucp" and "suucp". The latter
+ is for when you know that the UUCP mailer at the other
+ end can handle multiple recipients in one transfer.
+ When you invoke this, sendmail looks for all names in
+ the $=U class and sends them to the uucp-old mailer; all
+ names in the $=Y class are sent to uucp-new; and all
+ names in the $=Z class are sent to uucp-uudom. Note that
+ this is a function of what version of rmail runs on
+ the receiving end, and hence may be out of your control.
+ If smtp is defined, it also defines "uucp-dom" and
+ "uucp-uudom" mailers that use domain-style rewriting.
+ See the section below describing UUCP mailers in more
+ detail.
+
+usenet Usenet (network news) delivery. If this is specified,
+ an extra rule is added to ruleset 0 that forwards all
+ local email for users named ``group.usenet'' to the
+ ``inews'' program. Note that this works for all groups,
+ and may be considered a security problem.
+
+fax Facsimile transmission. This is experimental and based
+ on Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software. For more information,
+ see below.
+
+pop Post Office Protocol.
+
+
++----------+
+| FEATURES |
++----------+
+
+Special features can be requested using the "FEATURE" macro. For
+example, the .mc line:
+
+ FEATURE(use_cw_file)
+
+tells sendmail that you want to have it read an /etc/sendmail.cw
+file to get values for class $=w. The FEATURE may contain a single
+optional parameter -- for example:
+
+ FEATURE(mailertable, dbm /usr/lib/mailertable)
+
+Available features are:
+
+use_cw_file Read the file /etc/sendmail.cw file to get alternate
+ names for this host. This might be used if you were
+ on a host that MXed for a dynamic set of other
+ hosts. If the set is static, just including the line
+ "Cw<name1> <name2> ..." is probably superior.
+ The actual filename can be overridden by redefining
+ confCW_FILE.
+
+redirect Reject all mail addressed to "address.REDIRECT" with
+ a ``551 User not local; please try <address>'' message.
+ If this is set, you can alias people who have left
+ to their new address with ".REDIRECT" appended.
+
+nouucp Don't do anything special with UUCP addresses at all.
+
+nocanonify Don't pass addresses to $[ ... $] for canonification.
+ This would generally only be used by sites that only
+ act as mail gateways or which have user agents that do
+ full canonification themselves. You may also want to
+ use "define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')" to
+ turn off the usual resolver options that do a similar
+ thing.
+
+notsticky By default, email sent to "user@local.host" are marked
+ as "sticky" -- that is, the local addresses aren't
+ matched against UDB and don't go through ruleset 5.
+ This features disables this treatment. It would
+ normally be used on network gateway machines.
+
+mailertable Include a "mailer table" which can be used to override
+ routing for particular domains. The argument of the
+ FEATURE may be the key definition. If none is specified,
+ the definition used is:
+ hash -o /etc/mailertable
+ Keys in this database are fully qualified domain names
+ or partial domains preceded by a dot -- for example,
+ "vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU" or ".CS.Berkeley.EDU".
+ Values must be of the form:
+ mailer:domain
+ where "mailer" is the internal mailer name, and "domain"
+ is where to send the message. These maps are not
+ reflected into the message header.
+
+domaintable Include a "domain table" which can be used to provide
+ full domains on unqualified (single word) hosts. The
+ argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition. If
+ none is specified, the definition used is:
+ hash -o /etc/domaintable
+ The key in this table is the unqualified host name; the
+ value is the fully qualified domain. Anything in the
+ domaintable is reflected into headers; that is, this
+ is done in ruleset 3.
+
+bitdomain Look up bitnet hosts in a table to try to turn them into
+ internet addresses. The table can be built using the
+ bitdomain program contributed by John Gardiner Myers.
+ The argument of the FEATURE may be the key definition; if
+ none is specified, the definition used is:
+ hash -o /etc/bitdomain.db
+ Keys are the bitnet hostname; values are the corresponding
+ internet hostname.
+
+uucpdomain Similar feature for UUCP hosts. The default map definition
+ is:
+ hash -o /etc/uudomain.db
+ At the moment there is no automagic tool to build this
+ database.
+
+always_add_domain
+ Include the local host domain even on locally delivered
+ mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already
+ present.
+
+allmasquerade If masquerading is enabled (using MASQUERADE_AS), this
+ feature will cause recipient addresses to also masquerade
+ as being from the masquerade host. Normally they get
+ the local hostname. Although this may be right for
+ ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example,
+ if you send to "localalias", the originating sendmail will
+ find that alias and send to all members, but send the
+ message with "To: localalias@masqueradehost". Since that
+ alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this
+ feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE
+ namespace on your masquerade host supersets all the
+ local entries.
+
+nodns We aren't running DNS at our site (for example,
+ we are UUCP-only connected). It's hard to consider
+ this a "feature", but hey, it had to go somewhere.
+
+nullclient This is a special case -- it creates a stripped down
+ configuration file containing nothing but support for
+ forwarding all mail to a central hub via a local
+ SMTP-based network. The argument is the name of that
+ hub.
+
+ The only other feature that should be used in conjunction
+ with this one is "nocanonify" (this causes addresses to
+ be sent unqualified via the SMTP connection; normally
+ they are qualifed with the masquerade name, which
+ defaults to the name of the hub machine). No mailers
+ should be defined. No aliasing or forwarding is done.
+
+
++-------+
+| HACKS |
++-------+
+
+Some things just can't be called features. To make this clear,
+they go in the hack subdirectory and are referenced using the HACK
+macro. These will tend to be site-dependent. The release
+includes the Berkeley-dependent "cssubdomain" hack (that makes
+sendmail accept local names in either Berkeley.EDU or CS.Berkeley.EDU;
+this is intended as a short-term aid while we move hosts into
+subdomains.
+
+
++--------------------+
+| SITE CONFIGURATION |
++--------------------+
+
+Complex sites will need more local configuration information, such as
+lists of UUCP hosts they speak with directly. This can get a bit more
+tricky. For an example of a "complex" site, see cf/ucbvax.mc.
+
+If your host is known by several different names, you need to augment
+the $=w class. This is a list of names by which you are known, and
+anything sent to an address using a host name in this list will be
+treated as local mail. You can do this in two ways: either create
+the file /etc/sendmail.cw containing a list of your aliases (one per
+line), and use ``FEATURE(use_cw_file)'' in the .mc file, or add the
+line:
+
+ Cw alias.host.name
+
+at the end of that file. See the ``vangogh.mc'' file for an example.
+Be sure you use the fully-qualified name of the host, rather than a
+short name.
+
+The SITECONFIG macro allows you to indirectly reference site-dependent
+configuration information stored in the siteconfig subdirectory. For
+example, the line
+
+ SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbvax, ucbvax, U)
+
+reads the file uucp.ucbvax for local connection information. The
+second parameter is the local name (in this case just "ucbvax" since
+it is locally connected, and hence a UUCP hostname). The third
+parameter is the name of both a macro to store the local name (in
+this case, $U) and the name of the class (e.g., $=U) in which to store
+the host information read from the file. Another SITECONFIG line reads
+
+ SITECONFIG(uucp.ucbarpa, ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, W)
+
+This says that the file uucp.ucbarpa contains the list of UUCP sites
+connected to ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU. The $=W class will be used to
+store this list, and $W is defined to be ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, that
+is, the name of the relay to which the hosts listed in uucp.ucbarpa
+are connected. [The machine ucbarpa is gone now, but I've left
+this out-of-date configuration file around to demonstrate how you
+might do this.]
+
+Note that the case of SITECONFIG with a third parameter of ``U'' is
+special; the second parameter is assumed to be the UUCP name of the
+local site, rather than the name of a remote site, and the UUCP name
+is entered into $=w (the list of local hostnames) as $U.UUCP.
+
+The siteconfig file (e.g., siteconfig/uucp.ucbvax.m4) contains nothing
+more than a sequence of SITE macros describing connectivity. For
+example:
+
+ SITE(cnmat)
+ SITE(sgi olympus)
+
+The second example demonstrates that you can use two names on the
+same line; these are usually aliases for the same host (or are at
+least in the same company).
+
+
++--------------------+
+| USING UUCP MAILERS |
++--------------------+
+
+It's hard to get UUCP mailers right because of the extremely ad hoc
+nature of UUCP addressing. These config files are really designed
+for domain-based addressing, even for UUCP sites.
+
+There are four UUCP mailers available. The choice of which one to
+use is partly a matter of local preferences and what is running at
+the other end of your UUCP connection. Unlike good protocols that
+define what will go over the wire, UUCP uses the policy that you
+should do what is right for the other end; if they change, you have
+to change. This makes it hard to do the right thing, and discourages
+people from updating their software. In general, if you can avoid
+UUCP, please do.
+
+The major choice is whether to go for a domainized scheme or a
+non-domainized scheme. This depends entirely on what the other
+end will recognize. If at all possible, you should encourage the
+other end to go to a domain-based system -- non-domainized addresses
+don't work entirely properly.
+
+The four mailers are:
+
+ uucp-old (obsolete name: "uucp")
+ This is the oldest, the worst (but the closest to UUCP) way of
+ sending messages accros UUCP connections. It does bangify
+ everything and prepends $U (your UUCP name) to the sender's
+ address (which can already be a bang path itself). It can
+ only send to one address at a time, so it spends a lot of
+ time copying duplicates of messages. Avoid this if at all
+ possible.
+
+ uucp-new (obsolete name: "suucp")
+ The same as above, except that it assumes that in one rmail
+ command you can specify several recipients. It still has a
+ lot of other problems.
+
+ uucp-dom
+ This UUCP mailer keeps everything as domain addresses.
+ Basically, it uses the SMTP mailer rewriting rules.
+
+ Unfortunately, a lot of UUCP mailer transport agents require
+ bangified addresses in the envelope, although you can use
+ domain-based addresses in the message header. (The envelope
+ shows up as the From_ line on UNIX mail.) So....
+
+ uucp-uudom
+ This is a cross between uucp-new (for the envelope addresses)
+ and uucp-dom (for the header addresses). It bangifies the
+ envelope sender (From_ line in messages) without adding the
+ local hostname, unless there is no host name on the address
+ at all (e.g., "wolf") or the host component is a UUCP host name
+ instead of a domain name ("somehost!wolf" instead of
+ "some.dom.ain!wolf").
+
+Examples:
+
+We are on host grasp.insa-lyon.fr (UUCP host name "grasp"). The
+following summarizes the sender rewriting for various mailers.
+
+Mailer sender rewriting in the envelope
+------ ------ -------------------------
+uucp-{old,new} wolf grasp!wolf
+uucp-dom wolf wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
+uucp-uudom wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!wolf
+
+uucp-{old,new} wolf@fr.net grasp!fr.net!wolf
+uucp-dom wolf@fr.net wolf@fr.net
+uucp-uudom wolf@fr.net fr.net!wolf
+
+uucp-{old,new} somehost!wolf grasp!somehost!wolf
+uucp-dom somehost!wolf somehost!wolf@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
+uucp-uudom somehost!wolf grasp.insa-lyon.fr!somehost!wolf
+
+If you are using one of the domainized UUCP mailers, you really want
+to convert all UUCP addresses to domain format -- otherwise, it will
+do it for you (and probably not the way you expected). For example,
+if you have the address foo!bar!baz (and you are not sending to foo),
+the heuristics will add the @uucp.relay.name or @local.host.name to
+this address. However, if you map foo to foo.host.name first, it
+will not add the local hostname. You can do this using the uucpdomain
+feature.
+
+
++-------------------+
+| TWEAKING RULESETS |
++-------------------+
+
+For more complex configurations, you can define special rules.
+The macro LOCAL_RULE_3 introduces rules that are used in canonicalizing
+the names. Any modifications made here are reflected in the header.
+
+A common use is to convert old UUCP addreses to SMTP addresses using
+the UUCPSMTP macro. For example:
+
+ LOCAL_RULE_3
+ UUCPSMTP(decvax, decvax.dec.com)
+ UUCPSMTP(research, research.att.com)
+
+will cause addresses of the form "decvax!user" and "research!user"
+to be converted to "user@decvax.dec.com" and "user@research.att.com"
+respectively.
+
+This could also be used to look up hosts in a database map:
+
+ LOCAL_RULE_3
+ R$* < @ $+ > $* $: $1 < @ $(hostmap $2 $) > $3
+
+This map would be defined in the LOCAL_CONFIG portion, as shown below.
+
+Similarly, LOCAL_RULE_0 can be used to introduce new parsing rules.
+For example, new rules are needed to parse hostnames that you accept
+via MX records. For example, you might have:
+
+ LOCAL_RULE_0
+ R$+ <@ host.dom.ain.> $#uucp $@ cnmat $: $1 < @ host.dom.ain.>
+
+You would use this if you had installed an MX record for cnmat.Berkeley.EDU
+pointing at this host; this rule catches the message and forwards it on
+using UUCP.
+
+You can also tweak rulesets 1 and 2 using LOCAL_RULE_1 and LOCAL_RULE_2.
+These rulesets are normally empty.
+
+A similar macro is LOCAL_CONFIG. This introduces lines added after the
+boilerplate option setting but before rulesets, and can be used to
+declare local database maps or whatever. For example:
+
+ LOCAL_CONFIG
+ Khostmap hash /etc/hostmap.db
+ Kyplocal nis -m hosts.byname
+
+
++---------------------------+
+| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
++---------------------------+
+
+You can have your host masquerade as another using
+
+ MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain)
+
+This causes outgoing SMTP mail to be labeled as coming from the
+indicated domain, rather than $j. One normally masquerades as one
+of one's own subdomains (for example, it's unlikely that I would
+choose to masquerade as an MIT site).
+
+The masquerade name is not normally canonified, so it is important
+that it be your One True Name, that is, fully qualified and not a
+CNAME.
+
+there are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their
+internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.
+Root is an example. You can add users to this list using
+
+ EXPOSED_USER(usernames)
+
+This adds users to class E; you could also use something like
+
+ FE/etc/sendmail.cE
+
+You can also arrange to relay all unqualified names (that is, names
+without @host) to a relay host. For example, if you have a central
+email server, you might relay to that host so that users don't have
+to have .forward files or aliases. You can do this using
+
+ define(`LOCAL_RELAY', mailer:hostname)
+
+The ``mailer:'' can be omitted, in which case the mailer defaults to
+"smtp". There are some user names that you don't want relayed, perhaps
+because of local aliases. A common example is root, which may be
+locally aliased. You can add entries to this list using
+
+ LOCAL_USER(usernames)
+
+This adds users to class L; you could also use something like
+
+ FL/etc/sendmail.cL
+
+If you want all incoming mail sent to a centralized hub, as for a
+shared /var/spool/mail scheme, use
+
+ define(`MAIL_HUB', mailer:hostname)
+
+Again, ``mailer:'' defaults to "smtp". If you define both LOCAL_RELAY
+and MAIL_HUB, unqualified names will be sent to the LOCAL_RELAY and
+other local names will be sent to MAIL_HUB. Names in $=L will be
+delivered locally, so you MUST have aliases or .forward files for them.
+
+For example, if are on machine mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU, the following
+combinations of settings will have the indicated effects:
+
+email sent to.... eric eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
+
+LOCAL_RELAY set to mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU (delivered locally)
+mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU
+
+MAIL_HUB set to mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
+mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
+
+Both LOCAL_RELAY and mail.CS.Berkeley.EDU mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU
+MAIL_HUB set as above
+
+If you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define
+SMART_HOST as well. Briefly:
+
+ LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualifed names (e.g., "eric").
+ MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
+ local host (e.g., "eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU").
+ SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.
+
+However, beware that other relays (e.g., UUCP_RELAY, BITNET_RELAY, and
+FAX_RELAY) take precedence over SMART_HOST, so if you really want
+absolutely everything to go to a single central site you will need to
+unset all the other relays -- or better yet, find or build a minimal
+config file that does this.
+
+
++-------------------------------+
+| NON-SMTP BASED CONFIGURATIONS |
++-------------------------------+
+
+These configuration files are designed primarily for use by SMTP-based
+sites. I don't pretend that they are well tuned for UUCP-only or
+UUCP-primarily nodes (the latter is defined as a small local net
+connected to the rest of the world via UUCP). However, there is one
+hook to handle some special cases.
+
+You can define a ``smart host'' that understands a richer address syntax
+using:
+
+ define(`SMART_HOST', mailer:hostname)
+
+In this case, the ``mailer:'' defaults to "relay". Any messages that
+can't be handled using the usual UUCP rules are passed to this host.
+
+If you are on a local SMTP-based net that connects to the outside
+world via UUCP, you can use LOCAL_NET_CONFIG to add appropriate rules.
+For example:
+
+ define(`SMART_HOST', suucp:uunet)
+ LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
+ R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
+
+This will cause all names that end in your domain name ($m) via
+SMTP; anything else will be sent via suucp (smart UUCP) to uunet.
+If you have FEATURE(nocanonify), you may need to omit the dots after
+the $m. If you are running a local DNS inside your domain which is
+not otherwise connected to the outside world, you probably want to
+use:
+
+ define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:fire.wall.com)
+ LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
+ R$* < @ $* . > $* $#smtp $@ $2. $: $1 < @ $2. > $3
+
+That is, send directly only to things you found in your DNS lookup;
+anything else goes through SMART_HOST.
+
+If you are not running DNS at all, it is important to use
+FEATURE(nodns) to avoid having sendmail queue everything waiting
+for the name server to come up.
+
+
++-----------+
+| WHO AM I? |
++-----------+
+
+Normally, the $j macro is automatically defined to be your fully
+qualified domain name (FQDN). Sendmail does this by getting your
+host name using gethostname and then calling gethostbyname on the
+result. For example, in some environments gethostname returns
+only the root of the host name (such as "foo"); gethostbyname is
+supposed to return the FQDN ("foo.bar.com"). In some (fairly rare)
+cases, gethostbyname may fail to return the FQDN. In this case
+you MUST define confDOMAIN_NAME to be your fully qualified domain
+name. This is usually done using:
+
+ Dmbar.com
+ define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.$m')dnl
+
+
++--------------------+
+| USING MAILERTABLES |
++--------------------+
+
+To use FEATURE(mailertable), you will have to create an external
+database containing the routing information for various domains.
+For example, a mailertable file in text format might be:
+
+ .my.domain xnet:%1.my.domain
+ uuhost1.my.domain suucp:uuhost1
+ .bitnet smtp:relay.bit.net
+
+This should normally be stored in /etc/mailertable. The actual
+database version of the mailertable is built using:
+
+ makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
+
+The semantics are simple. Any LHS entry that does not begin with
+a dot matches the full host name indicated. LHS entries beginning
+with a dot match anything ending with that domain name -- that is,
+they can be thought of as having a leading "*" wildcard. Matching
+is done in order of most-to-least qualified -- for example, even
+though ".my.domain" is listed first in the above example, an entry
+of "uuhost1.my.domain" will match the second entry since it is
+more explicit.
+
+The RHS should always be a "mailer:host" pair. The mailer is the
+configuration name of a mailer (that is, an `M' line in the
+sendmail.cf file). The "host" will be the hostname passed to
+that mailer. In domain-based matches (that is, those with leading
+dots) the "%1" may be used to interpolate the wildcarded part of
+the host name. For example, the first line above sends everything
+addressed to "anything.my.domain" to that same host name, but using
+the (presumably experimental) xnet mailer.
+
+
++--------------------------------+
+| USING USERDB TO MAP FULL NAMES |
++--------------------------------+
+
+The user database was not originally intended for mapping full names
+to login names (e.g., Eric.Allman => eric), but some people are using
+it that way. (I would recommend that you set up aliases for this
+purpose instead -- since you can specify multiple alias files, this
+is fairly easy.) The intent was to locate the default maildrop at
+a site, but allow you to override this by sending to a specific host.
+
+If you decide to set up the user database in this fashion, it is
+imperative that you also specify FEATURE(notsticky) -- otherwise,
+e-mail sent to Full.Name@local.host.name will be rejected.
+
+To build the internal form of the user databae, use:
+
+ makemap btree /usr/data/base.db < /usr/data/base.txt
+
+
++------------------+
+| FlexFAX SOFTWARE |
++------------------+
+
+Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software is still in beta test -- but he expects a
+public version out "later this week" [as of 3/1/93]. The following
+blurb is direct from Sam:
+
+ $Header: /usr/people/sam/fax/RCS/HOWTO,v 1.14 93/05/24 11:42:16 sam Exp $
+
+ How To Obtain This Software (in case all you get is this file)
+ --------------------------------------------------------------
+ The source code is available for public ftp on
+ sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.src.tar.Z
+ (192.48.153.1)
+
+ You can also obtain inst'able images for Silicon Graphics machines from
+ sgi.com sgi/fax/v2.1.inst.tar
+ (192.48.153.1)
+
+ For example,
+ % ftp -n sgi.com
+ ....
+ ftp> user anonymous
+ ... <type in password>
+ ftp> cd sgi/fax
+ ftp> binary
+ ftp> get v2.1.src.tar.Z
+
+ In general, the latest version of the 2.1 release of the software is
+ always available as "v2.1.src.tar.Z" or "v2.1.inst.tar" in the ftp
+ directory. This file is a link to the appropriate released version (so
+ don't waste your time retrieving the linked file as well!) Any files of
+ the form v2.1.*.patch are shell scripts that can be used to patch older
+ versions of the source code. For example, the file v2.1.0.patch would
+ contain patches to update v2.1.0.tar.Z. (Note to beta testers: this is
+ different than the naming conventions used during beta testing.) Patch
+ files only work to go between consecutive versions, so if you are
+ multiple versions behind the latest release, you will need to apply
+ each patch file between your current version and the latest.
+
+
+ Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Do not send me requests for the software; they will be ignored (without
+ response). If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
+ "ftpmail" available from gatekeeper.dec.com: you can send e-mail to
+ this machine and it will use FTP to retrieve files for you and send you
+ the files back again via e-mail. To find out more about the ftpmail
+ service, send a message to "ftpmail@gatekeeper.dec.com" whose body
+ consists of the single line "help".
+
+
+ Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
+ flake.asd in the directory /usr/dist. Thus you can do something like:
+
+ % inst -f flake.asd.sgi.com:/usr/dist/flexfax
+
+ to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
+
+
+ What to do Once You've Retrieved Stuff
+ --------------------------------------
+ The external distributions come in a compressed or uncompressed tar
+ file. To extract the source distribution:
+
+ % zcat v2.1.src.tar.Z | tar xf -
+
+ (uncompress and extract individual files in current directory). To
+ unpack and install the client portion of the inst'able distribution:
+
+ % mkdir dist
+ % cd dist; tar xf ../v2.1.inst.tar; cd ..
+ % inst -f dist/flexfax
+ ...
+ inst> go
+
+ (Note, the dist subdirectory is because some versions of inst fail if
+ the files are in the current directory.) Server binaries are also
+ included in the inst'able images as flexfax.server.*. They are not
+ installed by default, so to get them also you need to do:
+
+ % inst -f flexfax
+ ...
+ inst> install flexfax.server.*
+ inst> go
+
+ The SGI binaries were built for Version 4.0.5H of the IRIX operating
+ system. They should work w/o problem on earlier versions of the
+ system, but I have not fully tested this. Also, note that to install a
+ server on an SGI machine, you need to have installed the Display
+ PostScript execution environment product (dps_eoe). Otherwise, the fax
+ server will not be able to convert PostScript to facsimile for
+ transmission.
+
+ If you are working from the source distribution, look at the file
+ README in the top of the source tree. If you are working from the inst
+ images, the subsystem flexfax.man.readme contains the README file and
+ other useful pieces of information--the installed files are placed in
+ the directory /usr/local/doc/flexfax). Basically you will need to run
+ the faxaddmodem script to setup and configure your fax modem. Consult
+ the README file and the manual page for faxaddmodem for information.
+
+
+ FlexFAX Mail List
+ -----------------
+ A mailing list for users of this software is located on sgi.com.
+ If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request
+ such as getting your name removed from it, send a request to
+
+ majordomo@whizzer.wpd.sgi.com
+
+ For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe flexfax" in
+ the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of
+ the commands understood by the mailing list management software.
+
+ Submissions (including bug reports) should be directed to:
+
+ flexfax@sgi.com
+
+ When corresponding about this software please always specify what
+ version you have, what system you're running on, and, if the problem is
+ specific to your modem, identify the modem and firmware revision.
+
+
++--------------------------------+
+| TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |
++--------------------------------+
+
+There are a large number of configuration options that don't normally
+need to be changed. However, if you feel you need to tweak them, you
+can define the following M4 variables. This list is shown in four
+columns: the name you define, the default value for that definition,
+the option or macro that is affected (either Ox for an option or Dx
+for a macro), and a brief description. Greater detail of the semantics
+can be found in the Installation and Operations Guide.
+
+Some options are likely to be deprecated in future versions -- that is,
+the option is only included to provide back-compatibility. These are
+marked with "*".
+
+Remember that these options are M4 variables, and hence may need to
+be quoted. In particular, arguments with commas will usually have to
+be ``double quoted, like this phrase'' to avoid having the comma
+confuse things. This is common for alias file definitions and for
+the read timeout.
+
+M4 Variable Name Default Mac/Opt Description
+================ ======= ======= ===========
+confMAILER_NAME MAILER-DAEMON Dn The sender name used for
+ internally generated
+ outgoing messages.
+confFROM_LINE From $g $d Dl The From_ line used when
+ sending to files or programs.
+confFROM_HEADER $?x$x <$g>$|$g$. The format of an internally
+ Dq generated From: address.
+confOPERATORS .:%@!^/[] Do Address operator characters.
+confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG $j Sendmail $v/$Z ready at $b
+ De The initial (spontaneous)
+ SMTP greeting message.
+confSEVEN_BIT_INPUT False O7 Force input to seven bits?
+confALIAS_WAIT 10 Oa Wait (in minutes) for alias
+ file rebuild.
+confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS 4 Ob Minimum number of free blocks
+ on queue filesystem to accept
+ SMTP mail.
+confBLANK_SUB . OB Blank (space) substitution
+ character.
+confCON_EXPENSIVE False Oc Avoid connecting immediately
+ to mailers marked expensive?
+confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL 10 OC Checkpoint queue files
+ every N recipients.
+confDELIVERY_MODE background Od Default delivery mode.
+confAUTO_REBUILD False OD Automatically rebuild
+ alias file if needed.
+confERROR_MODE (undefined) Oe Error message mode.
+confERROR_MESSAGE (undefined) OE Error message header/file.
+confSAVE_FROM_LINES False Of Save extra leading
+ From_ lines.
+confTEMP_FILE_MODE 0600 OF Temporary file mode.
+confDEF_GROUP_ID 1 Og Default group id.
+confMATCH_GECOS False OG Match GECOS field.
+confMAX_HOP 17 Oh Maximum hop count.
+confIGNORE_DOTS False Oi * Ignore dot as terminator
+ for incoming messages?
+confBIND_OPTS (empty) OI Default options for BIND.
+confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS True Oj * Send error messages as MIME-
+ encapsulated messages per
+ RFC 1344.
+confFORWARD_PATH (undefined) OJ The colon-separated list of
+ places to search for .forward
+ files.
+confMCI_CACHE_SIZE 2 Ok Size of open connection cache.
+confMCI_CACHE_TIMEOUT 5m OK Open connection cache timeout.
+confUSE_ERRORS_TO False Ol * Use the Errors-To: header to
+ deliver error messages. This
+ should not be necessary because
+ of general acceptance of the
+ envelope/header distinction.
+confLOG_LEVEL 9 OL Log level.
+confME_TOO False Om Include sender in group
+ expansions.
+confCHECK_ALIASES True On Check RHS of aliases when
+ running newaliases.
+confOLD_STYLE_HEADERS True Oo * Assume that headers without
+ special chars are old style.
+confDAEMON_OPTIONS (undefined) OO SMTP daemon options.
+confPRIVACY_FLAGS authwarnings Op Privacy flags.
+confCOPY_ERRORS_TO (undefined) OP Address for additional copies
+ of all error messages.
+confQUEUE_FACTOR (undefined) Oq Slope of queue-only function
+confREAD_TIMEOUT (undefined) Or SMTP read timeouts.
+confSAFE_QUEUE True Os * Commit all messages to disk
+ before forking.
+confMESSAGE_TIMEOUT 5d/4h OT Timeout for messages before
+ sending error/warning message.
+confTIME_ZONE USE_SYSTEM Ot Time zone info -- can be
+ USE_SYSTEM to use the system's
+ idea, USE_TZ to use the user's
+ TZ envariable, or something
+ else to force that value.
+confDEF_USER_ID 1 Ou Default user id.
+confUSERDB_SPEC (undefined) OU User database specification.
+confFALLBACK_MX (undefined) OV Fallback MX host.
+confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST False Ow If we are the best MX for a
+ host and haven't made other
+ arrangements, try connecting
+ to the host directly; normally
+ this would be a config error.
+confQUEUE_LA 8 Ox Load average at which queue-only
+ function kicks in.
+confREFUSE_LA 12 OX Load average at which incoming
+ SMTP connections are refused.
+confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR
+ (undefined) Oy Cost of each recipient.
+confSEPARATE_PROC False OY Run all deliveries in a
+ separate process.
+confWORK_CLASS_FACTOR (undefined) Oz Priority multiplier for class.
+confWORK_TIME_FACTOR (undefined) OZ Cost of each delivery attempt.
+confCW_FILE /etc/sendmail.cw Name of file used to get the
+ Fw local additions to the $=w
+ class.
+confSMTP_MAILER smtp - The mailer name used when
+ SMTP connectivity is required.
+ Either "smtp" or "esmtp".
+confLOCAL_MAILER local - The mailer name used when
+ local connectivity is required.
+ Almost always "local".
+confRELAY_MAILER relay - The default mailer name used
+ for relaying any mail (e.g.,
+ to a BITNET_RELAY, a
+ SMART_HOST, or whatever).
+ This can reasonably be "suucp"
+ if you are on a UUCP-connected
+ site.
+confDOMAIN_NAME (undefined) Dj If defined, sets $j.
+
+
++-----------+
+| HIERARCHY |
++-----------+
+
+Within this directory are several subdirectories, to wit:
+
+m4 General support routines. These are typically
+ very important and should not be changed without
+ very careful consideration.
+
+cf The configuration files themselves. They have
+ ".mc" suffixes, and must be run through m4 to
+ become complete. The resulting output should
+ have a ".cf" suffix.
+
+ostype Definitions describing a particular operating
+ system type. These should always be referenced
+ using the OSTYPE macro in the .mc file. Examples
+ include "bsd4.3", "bsd4.4", "sunos3.5", and
+ "sunos4.1".
+
+domain Definitions describing a particular domain, referenced
+ using the DOMAIN macro in the .mc file. These are
+ site dependent; for example, we contribute "cs.exposed.m4"
+ and "cs.hidden.m4" which both describe hosts in the
+ CS.Berkeley.EDU subdomain; the former displays the local
+ hostname (e.g., mammoth.CS.Berkeley.EDU), whereas the
+ latter does its best to hide the identity of the local
+ workstation inside the CS subdomain.
+
+mailer Descriptions of mailers. These are referenced using
+ the MAILER macro in the .mc file.
+
+sh Shell files used when building the .cf file from the
+ .mc file in the cf subdirectory.
+
+feature These hold special orthogonal features that you might
+ want to include. They should be referenced using
+ the FEATURE macro.
+
+hack Local hacks. These can be referenced using the HACK
+ macro. They shouldn't be of more than voyeuristic
+ interest outside the .Berkeley.EDU domain, but who knows?
+ We've all got our own peccadillos.
+
+siteconfig Site configuration -- e.g., tables of locally connected
+ UUCP sites.
+
+
++------------------------+
+| ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS |
++------------------------+
+
+The following sections detail usage of certain internal parts of the
+sendmail.cf file. Read them carefully if you are trying to modify
+the current model. If you find the above descriptions adequate, these
+should be {boring, confusing, tedious, ridiculous} (pick one or more).
+
+RULESETS (* means built in to sendmail)
+
+ 0 * Parsing
+ 1 * Sender rewriting
+ 2 * Recipient rewriting
+ 3 * Canonicalization
+ 4 * Post cleanup
+ 5 * Local address rewrite (after aliasing)
+ 1x mailer rules (sender qualification)
+ 2x mailer rules (recipient qualification)
+ 3x mailer rules (sender header qualification)
+ 4x mailer rules (recipient header qualification)
+ 5x mailer subroutines (general)
+ 6x mailer subroutines (general)
+ 7x mailer subroutines (general)
+ 8x reserved
+ 90 Mailertable host stripping
+ 96 Bottom half of Ruleset 3 (ruleset 6 in old sendmail)
+ 97 Hook for recursive ruleset 0 call (ruleset 7 in old sendmail)
+ 98 Local part of ruleset 0 (ruleset 8 in old sendmail)
+
+
+MAILERS
+
+ 0 local, prog local and program mailers
+ 1 [e]smtp, relay SMTP channel
+ 2 uucp-* UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
+ 3 netnews Network News delivery
+ 4 fax Sam Leffler's FlexFAX software
+
+
+MACROS
+
+ A
+ B Bitnet Relay
+ C
+ D The local domain -- usually not needed
+ E
+ F FAX Relay
+ G
+ H mail Hub (for mail clusters)
+ I
+ J
+ K
+ L
+ M Masquerade (who I claim to be)
+ N
+ O
+ P
+ Q
+ R Relay (for unqualified names)
+ S Smart Host
+ T
+ U my UUCP name (if I have a UUCP connection)
+ V UUCP Relay (class V hosts)
+ W UUCP Relay (class W hosts)
+ X UUCP Relay (class X hosts)
+ Y UUCP Relay (all other hosts)
+ Z Version number
+
+
+CLASSES
+
+ A
+ B
+ C
+ D
+ E addresses that should not seem to come from $M
+ F hosts we forward for
+ G
+ H
+ I
+ J
+ K
+ L addresses that should not be forwarded to $R
+ M
+ N
+ O operators that indicate network operations (cannot be in local names)
+ P top level pseudo-domains: BITNET, FAX, UUCP, etc.
+ Q
+ R
+ S
+ T
+ U locally connected UUCP hosts
+ V UUCP hosts connected to relay $V
+ W UUCP hosts connected to relay $W
+ X UUCP hosts connected to relay $X
+ Y locally connected smart UUCP hosts
+ Z locally connected domain-ized UUCP hosts
+ . the class containing only a dot
+
+
+M4 DIVERSIONS
+
+ 1 Local host detection and resolution
+ 2 Local Ruleset 3 additions
+ 3 Local Ruleset 0 additions
+ 4 UUCP Ruleset 0 additions
+ 5 locally interpreted names (overrides $R)
+ 6 local configuration (at top of file)
+ 7 mailer definitions
+ 8
+ 9 special local rulesets (1 and 2)
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