Sendmail / Bryan Costales [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costales, Bryane.

Contributor:

Costales, Bryan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sendmail.

Electronic mail systems--Computer programs.

Electronic mail systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1310 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A classic O'Reilly title since 1993, sendmail now covers Versions 8.10 through 8.14 of this email routing program, including dozens of new features, options, and macros. This edition also takes a more nuts-and-bolts approach than its predecessors. It includes both an administration handbook and a reference guide that provide you with clear options for installing, configuring and managing sendmail's latest versions and companion programs. The sendmail program has withstood the test of time because of its ability to solve the mail-routing needs of all sites large or sma

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Changes Since the Previous Edition; Why This Book Is Necessary; History; Thoughts from Eric Allman; Organization; Audience and Assumptions; Unix and sendmail Versions; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Additional Sources of Information; Other Books, Other Problems; How to Contact Us; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Some Basics; 1.1 Email Basics; 1.2 Requests for Comments (RFCs); 1.3 Email and sendmail; 1.3.1 Other MTAs; 1.3.2 Why sendmail Is So Complex; 1.4 Basic Parts of sendmail; 1.4.1 The Configuration File; 1.4.2 The Queue

1.4.3 Aliases and Mailing Lists1.5 Basic Parts of a Mail Message; 1.5.1 Run sendmail by Hand; 1.5.2 The Header; 1.5.3 The Body; 1.5.4 The Envelope; 1.6 Basic Roles of sendmail; 1.6.1 Role in the Filesystem; 1.6.2 Role in the aliases File; 1.6.3 Role in Queue Management; 1.6.4 Role in Local Delivery; 1.6.5 Delivery to a Mailbox; 1.6.6 Delivery Through a Program; 1.6.7 Role in Network Transport; 1.6.8 Role in TCP/IP; 1.6.9 Role in UUCP; 1.6.10 Role in Other Protocols; 1.6.11 Role As a Daemon; 1.7 Basic Modes of sendmail; 1.7.1 How to Run sendmail; 1.7.1.1 Become a mode (-b)

1.7.1.2 Daemon mode (-bd)1.7.2 Kill and Restart, Beginning with V8.7; 1.7.2.1 Kill and restart with V8.6; 1.7.2.2 Kill and restart, very old versions; 1.7.2.3 If you forget to kill the daemon; 1.7.3 Show Queue Mode (-bp); 1.7.4 Rebuild Aliases Mode (-bi); 1.7.5 Verify Mode (-bv); 1.7.6 Verbose Mode (-v); 1.7.7 Debugging Mode (-d); 1.8 The sendmail.cf File; 1.8.1 Configuration Commands; 1.8.2 The version Command; 1.8.3 Comments; 1.8.4 A Quick Tour; 1.8.4.1 Mail delivery agents; 1.8.4.2 Macros; 1.8.4.3 Rules; 1.8.4.4 Rule sets; 1.8.4.5 Class macros; 1.8.4.6 File class macros; 1.8.4.7 Options

1.8.4.8 Headers1.8.4.9 Priority; 1.8.4.10 Trusted users; 1.8.4.11 Keyed databases; 1.8.4.12 Environment variables; 1.8.4.13 Queues defined; 1.8.4.14 External filter programs; Part I; Download, Build, and Install; 2.1 Vendor Versus Compiling; 2.2 Download the Source; 2.3 What's Where in the Source; 2.3.1 The Top-Level Build Script; 2.3.2 The contrib Directory; 2.3.3 The devtools Directory; 2.3.4 The doc Directory; 2.3.5 The include Directory; 2.3.6 The INSTALL File; 2.3.7 The KNOWNBUGS File; 2.3.8 The libmilter Directory; 2.3.9 The libsm Directory; 2.3.10 The libsmdb Directory

2.3.11 The libsmutil Directory2.3.12 The LICENSE File; 2.3.13 The Makefile File; 2.3.14 The PGPKEYS File; 2.3.15 The README File; 2.3.16 The RELEASE_NOTES File; 2.3.17 The test Directory; 2.4 Build sendmail; 2.4.1 The Build Script; 2.4.2 Build with m4; 2.4.3 Run Build; 2.4.4 If You Change Your m4 Build File; 2.4.5 Use libresolv.a; 2.4.6 Badly Defined sys_errlist; 2.4.7 Error at or Near Variable; 2.4.8 Undefined Symbol strtoul; 2.4.9 warning: & before array; 2.4.10 Other Considerations; 2.5 Install sendmail; 2.5.1 Add smmsp to /etc/passwd; 2.5.2 Add smmsp to /etc/group; 2.5.3 Modify init Files

2.5.4 The submit.cf File

Notes:

Revised edition. of: Sendmail / Bryan Costales with Eric Allman. Third edition. revised & updated. c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1253-1254) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Related Work:

Costales, Bryan. Sendmail.

ISBN:

9780596555344

0596555342

9780596519346

0596519346

OCLC:

213482815