Excuse for for asking - but how does this differ from the
	sendmail 8.8.8 binary shipped with NetBSD 1.3?
	(Other than the extra useful antispam rules)

	(The cf files are also shipped in /usr/share/sendmail)

	Thanks

		David/absolute

- I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am
- a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have
- never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 jon@colossus.cs.wits.ac.za wrote:

> sendmail 8.8.8 is available on my ftp server under
> 
> /pub/unix/src/
> 
> it is compiled for both netbsd mac68k and mklinux.
> 
> sendmail-8.8.8.tar.gz.mklinux
> sendmail-8.8.8.tar.gz.netbsd
> 
> you should get the one compiled for your architecture.
> It has been tidied up a bit by me. when you list the folder, you will see
> 
> 
> STUFF  cf  sendmail  sendmail.cf  doc
> 
> 
> STUFF is the source
> 
> cf is where you make sendmail.cf files (note the new m4 architecture). you
> basically use a pre-existing .mc file, modify it slightly, and type m4
> (thefile) > thefile.cf. see the readme. makes generating a new 888
> compliant file much easier. it can however just be plugged in in place of
> your old sendmail binary. note that when you put the new sendmail 888
> binary in /usr/sbin, you MUST run newaliases immediately after, since the
> .db files differ.
> 
> sendmail is the precompiled binary (getting it will save netbsd'ers about
> an hour of boredom waiting for it to compile). oboy is the 68030 sloooow!
> 
> sendmail.cf can replace your /etc/sendmail.cf. the only thing you must do
> is search for 0A in it to make sure your aliases files are listed
> correctly. for example, i have about 10 alias files on my mklinux box, of
> which you will probably only have one in common with me, so you need to
> strip the extra filename specifications. 
> 
> finally, this cf file i have provided has a small section with anti-spam
> rules. it will refuse attempts to use invalid domains as well as refuse
> 3rd party relay. ie., when someone connects to your server, and says
> they're from some funny place, and then give your server the tedious job
> of delivering their thousands of spam mails. basically, if it sees that
> the source and destination have nothing to do with your site, it will
> refuse to relay. the exception occurs in the line
> 
> R$=.cs.wits.ac.za $| $*         $@ OK           permit hosts in Cw
> 
> which you'll need to correct for your domain. if you replace
> .cs.wits.ac.za with your domain name, it should allow machines in your
> domain to use your server for 3rd party. if you replace .cs.wits.ac.za
> with a "w" it will also allow the hosts in /etc/sendmail.cw.
> 
> have fun!
> 
> ps. the sendmail.cf file for netbsd is slightly broken (don't forget to
> change the domain name inside it!). mailq doesn't work. please will
> someone take my original macaroni.mc file, and modify it so that it
> compiles under m4 to be a valid .cf file, without complaints when you try
> use mailq. generally everything seems to be working, but mailq doesn't.
> the problem comes from there not being an ostype for netbsd.
> 
> feel free to mail me the corrected mc file.
> 
> thanks!
> 
>  ____________________________________________________________
> John Ostrowick
> jon@cs.wits.ac.za, +27 11 716-3783
> Computer Science Department, University of the Witwatersrand   
> Web site, ftp site and listserv all available at: 
> http://macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za/
> 
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