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* @(#)READ_ME 8.10 (Berkeley) 4/13/94
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*/
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SENDMAIL RELEASE 8
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This directory has the latest sendmail software from Berkeley. See
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doc/op/op.me for a summary of changes since 5.67.
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Report any bugs to sendmail@CS.Berkeley.EDU.
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The latest version of sendmail is kept on FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU, directory
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/ucb/sendmail; check there for the latest revision.
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+--------------+
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| MANUAL PAGES |
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+--------------+
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The sendmail manual pages use contemporary Berkeley troff macros. If
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your system does not process these manual pages, you can pick up the
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new macros in a BSD Net/2 FTP site (e.g. on FTP.UU.NET, the files
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/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/me/strip.sed and
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/systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/tmac/*).
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The strip.sed file is only used in installation.
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After installation, edit tmac.doc and tmac.andoc to reflect the
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installation path of the tmac files. Those files contain pointers to
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/usr/share/tmac/, and those pointers are not changed by the `make
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install` process.
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Rename the existing tmac.an to be tmac.an.old, and rename tmac.andoc
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to be tmac.an.
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tmac.an will choose between tmac.an.old, your old macros, or tmac.doc,
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which are the new macros, so that both the new man pages and the
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existing man pages will be translated properly.
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I'm also told that the groff distribution from MIT has a tmac.doc
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macro set that is compatible with these macros.
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+-----------------------+
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| RELATED DOCUMENTATION |
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+-----------------------+
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There are other files you should read. Rooted in this directory are:
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CHANGES-R5-R8
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Describes changes between Release 5 and Release 8 of sendmail.
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There are some things that may behave somewhat differently.
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For example, the rules governing when :include: files will
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be read have been tightened up for security reasons.
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FAQ
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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
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KNOWNBUGS
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Known bugs in the current release. I try to keep this up
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to date -- get the latest version from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU
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in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS.
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RELEASE_NOTES
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A detailed description of the changes in each version. This
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is quite long, but informative.
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src/READ_ME
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Details on compiling and installing sendmail.
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cf/README
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Details on configuring sendmail.
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doc/op/op.me
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The sendmail Installation & Operations Guide. Be warned: if
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you are running this off on SunOS or some other system with an
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old version of -me, you need to add the following macro to the
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macros:
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.de sm
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\s-1\\$1\\s0\\$2
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..
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This sets a word in a smaller pointsize.
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+--------------+
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| RELATED RFCS |
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+--------------+
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There are several related RFCs that you may wish to read -- they are
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available via anonymous FTP to several sites, including nic.ddn.mil
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(directory rfc), ftp.nisc.sri.com (rfc), nis.nsf.net (RFC),
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nisc.jvnc.net (rfc), venera.isi.edu (in-notes), and wuarchive.wustl.edu
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(info/rfc). They can also be retrieved via electronic mail by sending
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email to one of:
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mail-server@nisc.sri.com
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Put "send rfcNNN" in message body
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nis-info@nis.nsf.net
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Put "send RFCnnn.TXT-1" in message body
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sendrfc@jvnc.net
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Put "RFCnnn" as Subject: line
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Important RFCs for electronic mail are:
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RFC821 SMTP protocol
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RFC822 Mail header format
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RFC974 MX routing
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RFC976 UUCP mail format
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RFC1123 Host requirements (modifies 821, 822, and 974)
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RFC1413 Identification server
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RFC1341 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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RFC1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
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Other standards that may be of interest (but which are less directly
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relevant to sendmail) are:
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RFC987 Mapping between RFC822 and X.400
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RFC1049 Content-Type header field (extension to RFC822)
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Warning to AIX users: this version of sendmail does not implement
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MB, MR, or MG DNS resource records, as defined as experiments in
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RFC883.
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+-------------------+
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| DATABASE ROUTINES |
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+-------------------+
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IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE NEW BERKELEY DB SOFTWARE: **** DO NOT ****
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use the version that was on the Net2 tape -- it has a number of
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nefarious bugs that were bad enough when I got them; you shouldn't have
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to go through the same thing. Instead, get a new version via public
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FTP from ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU, file ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z. This software
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is highly recommended; it gets rid of several stupid limits, it's much
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faster, and the interface is nicer to animals and plants. You will
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also probably find that you have to add -I/where/you/put/db/include
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to the sendmail makefile to get db.h to work properly.
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Be sure you remove ndbm.h and ndbm.o from the db distribution. These
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will cause problems with sendmail because sendmail already understands
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about NEWDB and NDBM coexisting.
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| Host Name Services |
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If you compile with NAMED_BIND (the default) sendmail will use
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DNS (the Domain Name System) for most host name lookups. If
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you do not have DNS running at your site you may have to turn
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this off to cause sendmail to use NIS and/or the /etc/hosts file.
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In particular, on SunOS you have to choose to use DNS (which
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you should do if you are attached to the Internet, otherwise
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you lose MX records, which are required) or NIS -- there is no
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way to try both.
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If you are using NIS and /etc/hosts, it is critical that you
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list the long (fully qualified) name first in the /etc/hosts file
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used to build the NIS database. For example, the line should read
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128.32.149.68 mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU mastodon
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**** NOT ****
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128.32.149.68 mastodon mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU
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If you use the wrong order, sendmail will conclude that your
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canonical name is the short version and use that in messages.
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The name "mastodon" doesn't mean much outside of Berkeley,
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and so this creates incorrect and unreplyable messages.
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+-------------+
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| USE WITH MH |
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This version of sendmail notices and reports certain kinds of SMTP
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protocol violations that were ignored by older versions. If you
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are running MH you may wish to install the patch in contrib/mh.patch
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that will prevent these warning reports. This patch also works
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with the old version of sendmail, so it's safe to go ahead and
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install it.
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+-----------+
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| MAKEFILES |
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+-----------+
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The Makefiles in this release use the new Berkeley "make" that is
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available in BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD. If you are using this version
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of make, you may notice one or two places where the Makefile includes
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"../../Makefile.inc". This file is not included with the sendmail
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distribution because it's not part of sendmail. However, it is,
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in toto:
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# @(#)Makefile.inc 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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BINDIR?= /usr/sbin
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The other directories should all have Makefile.dist files that work
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on the old make, albeit without all the niceties included.
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You can also get a new Berkeley make from the Net2 release (available
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on many public FTP archives). This version should also interpret old
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Makefiles, so you could drop it in as your default make.
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For more details, see src/READ_ME.
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+---------------------+
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| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE |
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+---------------------+
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The structure of this directory tree is:
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cf Source for Berkeley configuration files. These are
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different than what you've seen before. They are a
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fairly dramatic rewrite, requiring the new sendmail
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(since they use new features).
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contrib Some contributed tools to help with sendmail. THESE
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ARE NOT SUPPORTED by Berkeley -- contact the original
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authors if you have problems. (This directory is not
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on the 4.4BSD tape.)
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doc Documentation. If you are getting source, read
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op.me -- it's long, but worth it.
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mailstats Statistics printing program. It has the pathname of
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sendmail.st compiled in, so if you've changed that,
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beware. This isn't all that useful.
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makemap A program that creates the keyed maps used by the $( ... $)
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construct in sendmail. It is primitive but effective.
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It takes a very simple input format, so you will probably
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expect to preprocess must human-convenient formats
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using sed scripts before this program will like them.
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But it should be functionally complete.
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praliases A program to print the DBM version of the aliases file.
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It hasn't been converted to understand the new Berkeley
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DB format (which we are using).
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rmail Source for rmail(8). This is used as a delivery
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agent for for UUCP, and could presumably be used by
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other non-socket oriented mailers. Older versions of
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rmail are probably deficient.
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src Source for the sendmail program itself.
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test Some test scripts (currently only for compilation aids).
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