SUMMARY: what version of sendmail to install + instructions

From: Wayne M. Johnson <wj27_at_anvil.gatech.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:07:08 -0400

>Greetings:
>
>I thank the following individuals for their replies:
>
>A. Shinn, Sheila Hollenbaug, Stan Horwitz, Dr. T. Blinn and a special
>thanks to J. Bacher for the detailed installation instructions. Hope
>I did not omit anyone else who replied.
>
>Anyway, I had a typo in my original message. I am running DUNIX 4.0E.
>I wanted to know what was the best version of sendmail to install
>
>The consensus was to install Sendmail v. 8.11.4.
>
>Additionally, I needed some serious help configuring sendmail. The
>following is an adaptation of J Bacher's instructions that worked for
>our machine.
>
>We have only 5 users on our system. Relaying and virtual mail
>hosting were not
>needed by our users. So our config. of sendmail was fairly bare bones.
>
>1. Download sendmail from sendmail.org
>2. #gzip -d sendmail-filename.gz
>move sendmail-filename.tar to the directory you wish to use to
>extract all of the source
>cd to the directory that you moved the tar file to
>3.tar xvfs sendmail-filename.tar
>change to the top sendmail directory created (it may read sendmail-8.11.4)
>
>4. Back up all send mail related files.
>our sendmail file were in:
>
>/usr/var/adm/sendmail --.cf and other config. files
>/usr/sbin/sendmail-- sendmail binary
>/usr/share/lib/sendmail.hf-- some header file for sendmail
>
>
>
>NOTE***
>On Tru64 4.0D using DEC's cc, I had to do step 5.A. Step 5.A was
>not necessary in Tru64 5.1 using DEC's c++. I'm not sure whether
>you'll need to do this for 4.0E. You might try to compile it first
>without step 1 to see if you can compile clean.
>
>5.A) modify /usr/include/stdio.h extern in vsnprintf to match
>sendmail's definition of vsnsprintf.
>
>
>** I did not have the above problem with our machine (DUNIX 4.0E). I
>included it for completeness only.
>
>5.B. Go into ./sendmail-8.11.4/ dir
>#sh Build
>
>NOTE that the first time I tried this I received the message:
>>
>> # sh Build
>> Configuration: pfx=, os=OSF1, rel=V4.0, rbase=V4, rroot=V4.0,
>> arch=alpha, sfx=, variant=optimized
>> ERROR: Using M4=/usr/bin/m4: This version of m4 is broken: trailing
>> zero problem
>> /usr/bin/m4::6 can't open file
>Turns out m4 is broken on DUNIX as documented in the
>./sendmail-8.11.4 /cf/README
>
>So I installed GNU m4 from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.tar.gz
>(check for the latest version).
>
>6. I copied the following into a file named config.mc
>-------start here----------
>divert(-1)
>#
># Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
># All rights reserved.
># Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved.
># Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
># The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>#
># By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set
># forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
># the sendmail distribution.
>#
>#
>
>#
># This is a generic configuration file for OSF/1.
># It has support for local and SMTP mail only. If you want to
># customize it, copy it to a name appropriate for your environment
># and do the modifications there.
>#
>
>divert(0)dnl
>VERSIONID(`$Id: generic-osf1.mc,v 8.11 1999/02/07 07:26:02 gshapiro Exp $')
>OSTYPE(osf1)dnl
>DOMAIN(generic)dnl
>FEATURE(access_db)dnl
>FEATURE(blacklist_recipients)dnl
>FEATURE(rbl)dnl
>FEATURE(dnsbl)dnl
>MAILER(local)dnl
>MAILER(smtp)dnl
>
>------end here----------
>(note that any MAILER definitions need to go after the FEATURES)
>This is your configuration file for sendmail. I did not know what
>most of these
>entries meant initially. But they are documented on the sendmail.org website.
>Put the file (config.mc) in the ./sendmail-8.11.4/cf/cf dir.
>And from ./sendmail-8.11.4/cf/cf type
>#sh Build config.cf
>
>This will create your configuration file.
>I copied this file to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf manually.(sendmail 8.11.4
>looks for its config files in /etc/mail)
>
>
>
>7. From the ./sendmail-8.11.4/ dir
>#sh Build install --this put the new sendmail binary in /usr/sbin/
>and installed other utilities
>
>8. Go to the utility dir. in ./sendmail-8.11.4/ that you want to install and
>#sh Build install ( I only used mailstats and praliases)-- Actually,
>I think you can build all the utilities by running sh Build from the
>sendmail-8.11.4/ dir.
>But if you only build sendmail in step 5.B. then you will need to do
>this step.
>
>9. I copied our old /usr/var/adm/sendmail/aliases file to
>/etc/mail/aliases --I could not figure out how to create a new one.But
>I don't think a new one was necessary anyway.
>
>10. I created the following files in /etc/mail
>
>access --see sendmail.org about format for file
>local-host-names --put your domain name in this file
>
>11. create access.db (database file)
>#makemap hash access < access
>
>11. intialize alias database
># sendmail -v -bi
>
>12. chmod 640 all files in /etc/mail
>
>13. set /usr/bin/newaliases
>#rm -f /usr/bin/newaliases
>#ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/bin/newaliases
>
>
>14 Set up mail statisics file (sendmail.st)
>#cp /dev/null /usr/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st
>#chmod 666 /usr/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.st
>
>15. restart sendmail daemon
>#/sbin/init.d/sendmail restart
>
>
>Again thanks to all those who replied and hope this will help someone.
>Ciao.
>Wayne
>
>
>--
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