glfs/server/mail/sendmail.xml
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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY sendmail-download-http "http://www.sendmail.org/ftp/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY sendmail-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY sendmail-md5sum "f4550d8dcc55771f4a81e999c7d6df20">
<!ENTITY sendmail-size "1.9 MB">
<!ENTITY sendmail-buildsize "19.4 MB">
<!ENTITY sendmail-time "0.5 SBU">
]>
<sect1 id="sendmail" xreflabel="Sendmail-&sendmail-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="sendmail.html"?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
<keywordset>
<keyword role="package">sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar</keyword>
<keyword role="ftpdir">sendmail</keyword>
</keywordset>
</sect1info>
<title>Sendmail-&sendmail-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="sendmail">
<primary sortas="a-Sendmail">Sendmail</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to Sendmail</title>
<para>The <application>Sendmail</application> package contains a Mail
Transport Agent (MTA).</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&sendmail-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&sendmail-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &sendmail-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &sendmail-size;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated disk space required: &sendmail-buildsize;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated build time: &sendmail-time;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Sendmail Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required"><xref linkend="procmail"/></para>
<!-- <xref linkend="db"/> -->
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="openssl"/>,
<xref linkend="openldap"/>,
<xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/>,
<xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.feep.net/nph/">nph</ulink>, and
<xref linkend="gs"/> or <xref linkend="espgs"/> (for creating
PDF documentation)</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Sendmail</title>
<para>Before building <application>Sendmail</application>, create the
required user, group and directory with the following commands issued as
the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 26 smmsp &amp;&amp;
useradd -c "Sendmail Daemon" -g smmsp -d /dev/null \
-s /bin/false -u 26 smmsp &amp;&amp;
chmod -v 1777 /var/mail &amp;&amp;
install -v -m700 -d /var/spool/mqueue</userinput></screen>
<para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> See the source tree
<filename>sendmail/README</filename> file for information on linking
optional packages into the build. Use the example below, which adds
support for <application>tcpwrappers</application>, SASL, StartTLS
(<application>OpenSSL</application>) and
<application>OpenLDAP</application>, as a starting point.
Of course, modify it to suit your particular needs.</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; devtools/Site/site.config.m4 &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF',`-DSTARTTLS -DTCPWRAPPERS -DSASL -DLDAPMAP')
APPENDDEF(`confLIBS', `-lssl -lcrypto -lwrap -lsasl2 -lldap -llber')
APPENDDEF(`confINCDIRS', `-I/usr/include/sasl')</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>Install <application>Sendmail</application> with the following
commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; devtools/Site/site.config.m4 &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>define(`confMANGRP',`root')
define(`confMANOWN',`root')
define(`confSBINGRP',`root')
define(`confUBINGRP',`root')
define(`confUBINOWN',`root')</literal>
EOF
cd sendmail &amp;&amp;
sh Build &amp;&amp;
cd ../cf/cf &amp;&amp;
cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc &amp;&amp;
sh Build sendmail.cf</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
sh Build install-cf &amp;&amp;
cd ../.. &amp;&amp;
sh Build install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
cp -v -R cf/* /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/{cf,sendmail} &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 \
CACerts FAQ KNOWNBUGS LICENSE PGPKEYS README RELEASE_NOTES \
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 sendmail/{README,SECURITY,TRACEFLAGS,TUNING} \
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/sendmail &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 cf/README /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf &amp;&amp;
for manpage in sendmail editmap mailstats makemap praliases smrsh
do
install -v -m444 $manpage/$manpage.8 /usr/share/man/man8
done &amp;&amp;
install -v -m444 sendmail/aliases.5 /usr/share/man/man5 &amp;&amp;
install -v -m444 sendmail/mailq.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &amp;&amp;
install -v -m444 sendmail/newaliases.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &amp;&amp;
install -v -m444 vacation/vacation.1 /usr/share/man/man1</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the <application>Sendmail</application> Installation and
Operations Guide with the following commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>cd doc/op &amp;&amp;
sed -i 's/groff/GROFF_NO_SGR=1 groff/' Makefile &amp;&amp;
make op.txt op.pdf</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 op.ps op.txt op.pdf /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &amp;&amp;
cd ../..</userinput></screen>
<para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> remove <filename>op.pdf</filename> from
the <command>make</command> and <command>install</command> commands if
you don't have <application>Ghostscript</application> installed.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<para><command>cat &gt; devtools/Site/site.config.m4 &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>:
This creates a configuration file changing some of the default settings.</para>
<para><command>sh Build; sh Build sendmail.cf; sh Build install-cf;
sh Build install</command>: <application>Sendmail</application> uses an
<application>m4</application> based build script to create the various
<filename>Makefile</filename>s. These commands build and install the
package.</para>
<para><command>for manpage in...;do...;done; install ...</command>: The man
pages are installed already formatted and <command>man</command> displays
them somewhat garbled. These commands replace the formatted pages with
pages <command>man</command> can display properly.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration">
<title>Configuring Sendmail</title>
<sect3 id="sendmail-config">
<title>Config Files</title>
<para><filename>/etc/mail/*</filename></para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail sendmail-config">
<primary sortas="e-etc-mail">/etc/mail/*</primary>
</indexterm>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Configuration Information</title>
<para>Create the <filename>/etc/mail/local-host-names</filename> and
<filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename> files using the following
commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>echo $(hostname) > /etc/mail/local-host-names
cat &gt; /etc/mail/aliases &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root</literal>
EOF
newaliases -v</userinput></screen>
<para><application>Sendmail</application>'s primary configuration file,
<filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</filename>, is complex and not meant to be
directly edited. The recommended method for changing it is to modify
<filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.mc</filename> and various
<application>m4</application> files, then run the <command>m4</command>
macro processor from within
<filename class='directory'>/etc/mail</filename> as follows:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf</userinput></screen>
<para>A full explanation of the files to modify, and the available
parameters can be found in <filename>/etc/mail/README</filename>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="sendmail-init">
<title>Boot Script</title>
<para>To automate the running of <application>Sendmail</application>
at startup, install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</filename>
init script included in the
<xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail sendmail-init">
<primary sortas="f-sendmail-init">sendmail</primary>
</indexterm>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install-sendmail</userinput></screen>
<note>
<para>The -qNm option to <command>sendmail</command>, where N is number
of minutes, controls how often <application>Sendmail</application> will
process the mail queue. A default of 5 minutes is used in the init
script. Individual workstation users may want to set this as low as 1
minute, large installations handling more mail may want to set it
higher.</para>
</note>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>editmap, hoststat, mailstats, mailq, makemap, newaliases,
praliases, purgestat, sendmail, smrsh, and vacation</seg>
<seg>None</seg>
<seg>/etc/mail, /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;,
/var/spool/mqueue, and /var/spool/clientmqueue</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="editmap">
<term><command>editmap</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>queries and edits <application>Sendmail</application> map
files.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail editmap">
<primary sortas="b-editmap">editmap</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="hoststat">
<term><command>hoststat</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>prints <application>Sendmail</application>'s persistent host
status.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail hoststat">
<primary sortas="b-hoststat">hoststat</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="mailstats">
<term><command>mailstats</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>displays <application>Sendmail</application> statistics.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail mailstats">
<primary sortas="b-mailstats">mailstats</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="mailq-sendmail">
<term><command>mailq</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>prints a summary of outbound mail messages waiting for
delivery.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail mailq-sendmail">
<primary sortas="b-mailq">mailq</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="makemap">
<term><command>makemap</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>creates <application>Sendmail</application> map files.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail makemap">
<primary sortas="b-makemap">makemap</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="newaliases-sendmail">
<term><command>newaliases</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>rebuilds <filename>/etc/mail/aliases.db</filename> from the
contents of <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename>.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail newaliases-sendmail">
<primary sortas="b-newaliases">newaliases</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="praliases">
<term><command>praliases</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>displays current <application>Sendmail</application>
aliases.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail praliases">
<primary sortas="b-praliases">praliases</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="purgestat">
<term><command>purgestat</command></term>
<listitem>
<para> causes <application>Sendmail</application> to clear (purge)
all its host-status information.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail purgestat">
<primary sortas="b-purgestat">purgestat</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="sendmail-prog-sendmail">
<term><command>sendmail</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is the <application>Sendmail</application> mail transport
agent.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail sendmail-prog-sendmail">
<primary sortas="b-sendmail">sendmail</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="smrsh">
<term><command>smrsh</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a restricted shell for
<application>Sendmail</application>.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail smrsh">
<primary sortas="b-smrsh">smrsh</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="vacation-sendmail">
<term><command>vacation</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is an email auto responder.</para>
<indexterm zone="sendmail vacation-sendmail">
<primary sortas="b-vacation">vacation</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>