Author: igor
Date: Sun Feb 23 03:31:30 2014
New Revision: 12772
Log:
Archive sendmail.
Added:
trunk/BOOK/archive/sendmail.xml
- copied unchanged from r12771, trunk/BOOK/server/mail/sendmail.xml
Deleted:
trunk/BOOK/server/mail/sendmail.xml
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/at.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/networking/mailnews/mutt.xml
trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml
Copied: trunk/BOOK/archive/sendmail.xml (from r12771,
trunk/BOOK/server/mail/sendmail.xml)
==============================================================================
--- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added)
+++ trunk/BOOK/archive/sendmail.xml Sun Feb 23 03:31:30 2014
(r12772, copy of r12771, trunk/BOOK/server/mail/sendmail.xml)
@@ -0,0 +1,421 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+
+ <!-- Downloads a web page
+ <!ENTITY sendmail-download-http
"http://www.sendmail.org/ftp/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz";> -->
+ <!ENTITY sendmail-download-http " ">
+ <!ENTITY sendmail-download-ftp
"ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.&sendmail-version;.tar.gz";>
+ <!ENTITY sendmail-md5sum "73bfc621c75dbdd3d719e54685d92577">
+ <!ENTITY sendmail-size "2.1 MB">
+ <!ENTITY sendmail-buildsize "18 MB">
+ <!ENTITY sendmail-time "0.2 SBU">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="sendmail" xreflabel="sendmail-&sendmail-version;">
+ <?dbhtml filename="sendmail.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info>
+ <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
+ <date>$Date$</date>
+ </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>
+
+ &lfs74_built;
+
+ <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="openldap"/> (client)
+ </para>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
+ <para role="optional">
+ <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
+ <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
+ <xref linkend="procmail"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.feep.net/nph/";>nph</ulink>, and
+ <xref linkend="gs"/> (for creating PDF documentation)
+ </para>
+
+ <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
+ <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/sendmail"/></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
&&
+useradd -c "Sendmail Daemon" -g smmsp -d /dev/null \
+ -s /bin/false -u 26 smmsp &&
+chmod -v 1777 /var/mail &&
+install -v -m700 -d /var/spool/mqueue</userinput></screen>
+
+ <note><para>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 SASL, StartTLS
+ (<application>OpenSSL</application>) and
+ <application>OpenLDAP</application>, as a starting point. Of course,
+ modify it to suit your particular needs.</para></note>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat >> devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"
+<literal>APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF',`-DSTARTTLS -DSASL -DLDAPMAP')
+APPENDDEF(`confLIBS', `-lssl -lcrypto -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 >> devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"
+<literal>define(`confMANGRP',`root')
+define(`confMANOWN',`root')
+define(`confSBINGRP',`root')
+define(`confUBINGRP',`root')
+define(`confUBINOWN',`root')
+define(`confMANROOT', `/usr/share/man/man')</literal>
+EOF
+
+sed -i -r "s/^# if (DB.*)$/# if (\1) || DB_VERSION_MAJOR >= 5/" \
+ include/sm/bdb.h &&
+
+cd sendmail &&
+sh Build &&
+cd ../cf/cf &&
+cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc &&
+sh Build sendmail.cf</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
+ <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /etc/mail &&
+sh Build install-cf &&
+
+cd ../.. &&
+sh Build install &&
+
+install -v -m644 cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail &&
+cp -v -R cf/* /etc/mail &&
+
+install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/{cf,sendmail}
&&
+
+install -v -m644 CACerts FAQ KNOWNBUGS LICENSE PGPKEYS README RELEASE_NOTES \
+ /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &&
+
+install -v -m644 sendmail/{README,SECURITY,TRACEFLAGS,TUNING} \
+ /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/sendmail &&
+
+install -v -m644 cf/README /usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf
&&
+
+for manpage in sendmail editmap mailstats makemap praliases smrsh
+do
+ install -v -m644 $manpage/$manpage.8 /usr/share/man/man8
+done &&
+
+install -v -m644 sendmail/aliases.5 /usr/share/man/man5 &&
+install -v -m644 sendmail/mailq.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
+install -v -m644 sendmail/newaliases.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
+install -v -m644 vacation/vacation.1 /usr/share/man/man1</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Install the <application>sendmail</application> Installation and
+ Operations Guide with the following commands:</para>
+
+ <note><para>Remove <filename>op.pdf</filename> from the
+ <command>make</command> and <command>install</command> commands below if
+ you don't have <application>Ghostscript</application>
+ installed.</para></note>
+
+<screen><userinput>cd doc/op &&
+sed -i 's/groff/GROFF_NO_SGR=1 groff/' Makefile &&
+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; &&
+install -v -m644 op.ps op.txt op.pdf
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-&sendmail-version; &&
+cd ../..</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="commands">
+ <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+ <para><command>cat > devtools/Site/site.config.m4 <<
"EOF"</command>:
+ This creates a configuration file changing some of the default
settings.</para>
+
+ <para><command>sed ... include/sm/bdb.h</command>: This allows sendmail to
+ build properly with <xref linkend='db'/> versions 5 and above.</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 > /etc/mail/aliases << "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, mailstats, makemap, praliases, sendmail, smrsh,
+ and vacation; symlinks to /usr/sbin/sendmail: hoststat, mailq,
+ newaliases, and purgestat</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>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
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--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Sat Feb 22 22:57:48 2014 (r12771)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Sun Feb 23 03:31:30 2014 (r12772)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "22"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "23"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "02"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2014">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "February 22nd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "February 23rd, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!--
version|testing|unstable|development] -->
@@ -504,7 +504,6 @@
<!ENTITY exim-version "4.82">
<!ENTITY postfix-version "2.11.0">
-<!ENTITY sendmail-version "8.14.8">
<!-- Chapter 22 -->
<!ENTITY db-version "6.0.20">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/at.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/at.xml Sat Feb 22 22:57:48 2014 (r12771)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/at.xml Sun Feb 23 03:31:30 2014 (r12772)
@@ -61,9 +61,7 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required">
- An MTA such as <xref linkend="postfix"/>,
- <xref linkend="sendmail"/>, or
- <xref linkend="exim"/>
+ An <xref linkend="server-mail"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Sat Feb 22 22:57:48
2014 (r12771)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Sun Feb 23 03:31:30
2014 (r12772)
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>February 23rd, 2014</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[igor] - Archive sendmail. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;4723">#4723</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>February 22nd, 2014</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/networking/mailnews/mutt.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/networking/mailnews/mutt.xml Sat Feb 22 22:57:48 2014
(r12771)
+++ trunk/BOOK/networking/mailnews/mutt.xml Sun Feb 23 03:31:30 2014
(r12772)
@@ -116,9 +116,9 @@
<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 34 mail</userinput></screen>
- <para>If you did not install an MTA, such as <xref linkend="postfix"/> or
- <xref linkend="sendmail"/>, you need to modify the ownership of
- <filename class="directory">/var/mail</filename> with this command:</para>
+ <para>If you did not install an <xref linkend="server-mail"/>, you need to
+ modify the ownership of <filename class="directory">/var/mail</filename>
+ with this command:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>chgrp -v mail /var/mail</userinput></screen>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml Sat Feb 22 22:57:48 2014 (r12771)
+++ trunk/BOOK/server/mail/mail.xml Sun Feb 23 03:31:30 2014 (r12772)
@@ -25,6 +25,5 @@
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="dovecot.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="exim.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="postfix.xml"/>
- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="sendmail.xml"/>
</chapter>
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