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diff --git a/usr.sbin/sendmail/READ_ME b/usr.sbin/sendmail/READ_ME index de494f0a477a..52d398960983 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/sendmail/READ_ME +++ b/usr.sbin/sendmail/READ_ME @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /*- - * @(#)READ_ME 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/7/93 + * @(#)READ_ME 8.9 (Berkeley) 1/26/94 */ SENDMAIL RELEASE 8 @@ -12,6 +12,76 @@ Report any bugs to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU. The latest version of sendmail is kept on FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU, directory /ucb/sendmail; check there for the latest revision. + ++--------------+ +| MANUAL PAGES | ++--------------+ + +The sendmail manual pages use contemporary Berkeley troff macros. If +your system does not process these manual pages, you can pick up the +new macros in a BSD Net/2 FTP site (e.g. on FTP.UU.NET, the files +/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/me/strip.sed and +/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/*). + +The strip.sed file is only used in installation. + +After installation, edit tmac.doc and tmac.andoc to reflect the +installation path of the tmac files. Those files contain pointers to +/usr/share/tmac/, and those pointers are not changed by the `make +install` process. + +Rename the existing tmac.an to be tmac.an.old, and rename tmac.andoc +to be tmac.an. + +tmac.an will choose between tmac.an.old, your old macros, or tmac.doc, +which are the new macros, so that both the new man pages and the +existing man pages will be translated properly. + +I'm also told that the groff distribution from MIT has a tmac.doc +macro set that is compatible with these macros. + + ++-----------------------+ +| RELATED DOCUMENTATION | ++-----------------------+ + +There are other files you should read. Rooted in this directory are: + + CHANGES-R5-R8 + Describes changes between Release 5 and Release 8 of sendmail. + There are some things that may behave somewhat differently. + For example, the rules governing when :include: files will + be read have been tightened up for security reasons. + FAQ + Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. + KNOWNBUGS + Known bugs in the current release. I try to keep this up + to date -- get the latest version from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU + in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS. + RELEASE_NOTES + A detailed description of the changes in each version. This + is quite long, but informative. + src/READ_ME + Details on compiling and installing sendmail. + cf/README + Details on configuring sendmail. + doc/op/op.me + The sendmail Installation & Operations Guide. Be warned: if + you are running this off on SunOS or some other system with an + old version of -me, you need to add the following macro to the + macros: + + .de sm + \s-1\\$1\\s0\\$2 + .. + + This sets a word in a smaller pointsize. + + ++--------------+ +| RELATED RFCS | ++--------------+ + There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil (directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC), @@ -43,15 +113,14 @@ relevant to sendmail) are: RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400 RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822) -Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons the Makefiles are for the new -Berkeley "make" and will not work on the old, traditional make. I urge -you to get this make from Net2 (available on many public FTP archives). -Failing that, some directories have a "Makefile.dist" that will work on -older versions of make (but don't have the niceties included). +Warning to AIX users: this version of sendmail does not implement +MB, MR, or MG DNS resource records, as defined as experiments in +RFC883. -Similar comments apply to the man pages -- they use the new Berkeley --mandoc macros instead of the -man macros. You can get these from -Net2 as well. + ++-------------------+ +| DATABASE ROUTINES | ++-------------------+ IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT **** use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of @@ -63,6 +132,52 @@ faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly. +Be sure you remove ndbm.h and ndbm.o from the db distribution. These +will cause problems with sendmail because sendmail already understands +about NEWDB and NDBM coexisting. + + ++-------------+ +| USE WITH MH | ++-------------+ + +This version of sendmail notices and reports certain kinds of SMTP +protocol violations that were ignored by older versions. If you +are running MH you may wish to install the patch in contrib/mh.patch +that will prevent these warning reports. This patch also works +with the old version of sendmail, so it's safe to go ahead and +install it. + + ++-----------+ +| MAKEFILES | ++-----------+ + +The Makefiles in this release use the new Berkeley "make" that is +available in BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD. If you are using this version +of make, you may notice one or two places where the Makefile includes +"../../Makefile.inc". This file is not included with the sendmail +distribution because it's not part of sendmail. However, it is, +in toto: + + # @(#)Makefile.inc 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 + + BINDIR?= /usr/sbin + +The other directories should all have Makefile.dist files that work +on the old make, albeit without all the niceties included. + +You can also get a new Berkeley make from the Net2 release (available +on many public FTP archives). This version should also interpret old +Makefiles, so you could drop it in as your default make. + +For more details, see src/READ_ME. + + ++---------------------+ +| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE | ++---------------------+ + The structure of this directory tree is: cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are @@ -92,3 +207,4 @@ rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of rmail are probably deficient. src Source for the sendmail program itself. +test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids). |