Please just send a link to the concerned URL. There is no need to send along
a page that one can just click away to!
Shanker
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From: "Alok Dugar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 12:07 AM
Subject: [ilug-cal] Sendmail FAQ, slightly largish, anyone not interested
just delete,
> Dear Rajarshi & anyone else who might need it,
>
> I m enclosing the sendmail FAQ, didnt know which part might be useful so
am
> sending the whole thing. You can also access on the newsgroup.
>
> sorry but its largish. so bear with me.
>
> ciao
> alok
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> Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 (Perl 5.006)
> Archive-name: mail/sendmail/faq
> Posting-Frequency: posted on the 10th and 25th of each month
> Last-modified: August 2, 1999
> URL: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/
> Maintainer: Sendmail FAQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Sendmail
> Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
>
> Last updated August 2, 1999
>
> Changes since the last post on 25 Jul 1999 19:02:13 GMT
> * updated 2.16 & 3.5
> * added 4.16
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> Top 5 - the *most* frequently asked questions about sendmail:
>
> 1. Local config error: see 4.5
> 2. Y2K: see 4.11
> 3. Relaying denied: see 3.27
> 4. Directory permissions: see 3.33
> 5. Virtual hosting: see 3.7 & 3.28
>
> Table of Contents
>
> * 0. Plain-text version of the entire FAQ available at:
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/faq.txt
>
> * 1. COPYRIGHT NOTICE / REDISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section1.html
>
> * 2. INTRODUCTION / MISCELLANEOUS
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section2.html
>
> + 2.1 What is this newsgroup?
> + 2.2 What is the scope of this FAQ?
> + 2.3 Where can I find the latest version of this FAQ?
> + 2.4 How do I access comp.mail.sendmail by email?
> + 2.5 Where can I ask email-related DNS questions?
> + 2.6 How can I subscribe to these newsgroups?
> + 2.7 Which version of sendmail should I run?
> + 2.8 What is the latest release of sendmail?
> + 2.9 Where can I find it?
> + 2.10 What are the differences between Version 8 and other versions?
> + 2.11 What's the best platform for running sendmail?
> + 2.12 What is BIND and where can I get the latest version?
> + 2.13 What is smrsh and where can I get it?
> + 2.14 What is smap and where can I get it?
> + 2.15 What is TCP-Wrappers and where can I get it?
> + 2.16 Why won't db 1.85 build on my machine?
> + 2.17 What is makemap and where can I get it?
>
> * 3. VERSION 8 SPECIFIC ISSUES
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html
>
> + 3.1 How do I make all my addresses appear to be from a single host?
> + 3.2 How do I rewrite my "From:" lines to read
> ``[EMAIL PROTECTED]'' or ``[EMAIL PROTECTED]''?
> + 3.3 Why are you so hostile to using full names for email addresses?
> + 3.4 So what was the user database feature intended for?
> + 3.5 Where do I find this user database (UserDB) code?
> + 3.6 How do I get the user database to work with Pine or with
> FEATURE(always_add_domain)?
> + 3.7 How do I manage several (virtual) domains?
> + 3.8 There are four UUCP mailers listed in the configuration files.
> Which one should I use?
> + 3.9 How do I fix "undefined symbol inet_aton" and
> "undefined symbol _strerror" messages?
> + 3.10 How do I solve "collect: I/O error on connection" or
> "reply: read error from host.name" errors?
> + 3.11 Why can't my users forward their mail to a program?
> + 3.12 Why do connections to the SMTP port take such a long time?
> + 3.13 Why do I get "unknown mailer error 5 -- mail: options MUST
> PRECEDE recipients" errors?
> + 3.14 Why does version 8 sendmail panic my SunOS box?
> + 3.15 Why does the Unix From line get mysteriously munged when I
send
> to an alias?
> + 3.16 Why doesn't MASQUERADE_AS (or the user database) work
> for envelope addresses as well as header addresses?
> + 3.17 How do I run version 8 sendmail and support the MAIL11V3
> protocol?
> + 3.18 Why do messages disappear from my queue unsent?
> + 3.19 When is sendmail going to support RFC 1522 MIME header
encoding?
> + 3.20 Why can't I get mail to some places, but instead always get
> the error "reply: read error from name.of.remote.host"?
> + 3.21 Why doesn't "FEATURE(xxx)" work?
> + 3.22 How do I configure sendmail not to use DNS?
> + 3.23 How do I get all my queued mail delivered to my Unix box from
> my ISP?
> + 3.24 Why do I get the error message unable to write
> /etc/mail/sendmail.pid?
> + 3.25 Why can't I compile sendmail with Berkeley DB 2.X?
> + 3.26 What operating systems has Berkeley sendmail been ported to?
> + 3.27 How do I prevent "Relaying Denied" errors for my clients?
> + 3.28 Why isn't virtual hosting working, even after I added a
> "Kvirtuser" line to sendmail.cf ?
> + 3.29 How can I add a header specifying the actual recipient when
> having
> multiple users in a virtual domain go to a single mailbox?
> + 3.30 What do I do when Build fails because groff was not found?
> + 3.31 What does "class hash not available" mean?
> + 3.32 How do I configure majordomo with sendmail 8.9 without
relaxing
> the DontBlameSendmail option?
> + 3.33 How do I configure my system in general with sendmail 8.9?
>
> * 4. GENERAL SENDMAIL ISSUES
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html
>
> + 4.1 Should I use a wildcard MX for my domain?
> + 4.2 How can I set up an auto-responder?
> + 4.3 How can I get sendmail to deliver local mail to $HOME/.mail
> instead of into /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail)?
> + 4.4 Why does it deliver the mail interactively when I'm trying to
get
> it to go into queue only mode?
> + 4.5 How can I solve "MX list for hostname points back to hostname"
> and "config error: mail loops back to myself" messages?
> + 4.6 Why does my sendmail process sometimes hang when connecting
over
> a SLIP/PPP link?
> + 4.7 How can I summarize the statistics generated by sendmail in the
> syslog?
> + 4.8 How can I check my sendmail.cf to ensure that it's re-writing
> addresses correctly?
> + 4.9 What is procmail, and where can I get it?
> + 4.10 How can I solve "cannot alias non-local names" errors?
> + 4.11 Is sendmail Year 2000 (Y2K) compliant?
> + 4.12 How can I batch remote mail to be sent using my ISP while
> delivering local mail immediately?
> + 4.13 What does "unknown mailer error 1" mean?
> + 4.14 How do I queue mail for another domain?
> + 4.15 How do I create attachments with sendmail?
> + 4.16 How do I find sendmail's version number?
>
> * 5. VENDOR/OS SPECIFIC SENDMAIL ISSUES
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section5.html
>
> + 5.1 Sun Microsystems SunOS/Solaris 1.x/2.x
>
> o 5.1.1 How can I solve "line 273: replacement $3 out of bounds"
> errors?
> o 5.1.2 How can I solve "line 445: bad ruleset 96 (50 max)"
> errors?
> o 5.1.3 Why does version 8 sendmail (< 8.7.5) sometimes hang
> under Solaris 2.5?
> o 5.1.4 Why can't I use SunOS/Solaris to get email to certain
> large sites?
> o 5.1.5 Why do I have trouble compiling on Solaris?
> o 5.1.6 How does 8.X compare to 8.X+Sun?
>
> + 5.2 IBM AIX
>
> o 5.2.1 The system resource controller always reports sendmail
> as "inoperative". What's wrong?
> o 5.2.2 Why can't I use AIX to get email to some sites?
> o 5.2.3 Why can't I get sendmail 8.7.1 to use MX records with
> AIX 3.2.5?
>
> * 6. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SOURCES (RFC 1807 bibliography format)
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section6.html
>
> + 6.1 Reference material devoted exclusively to sendmail
> + 6.2 Reference material with chapters or sections on sendmail
> + 6.3 Reference material on subjects related to sendmail
> + 6.4 World-wide web index pages on sendmail
> + 6.5 World-wide web index pages Internet email in general
> + 6.6 Online tutorials for sendmail
> + 6.7 Online archives of mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups,
> relating to Internet email
>
> * 7. THANKS!
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section7.html
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