General UNIX Installation
Background
This is the much awaited Version 2 of the unix TPC
distribution. It's the latest and greatest of the
"glue" which ties together sendmail and HylaFAX into a
single functional unit and turns your server into a fully enabled
TPC remote printing delivery node. In order to fully understand
what you are going to be doing,
- Read the Remote Printing RFC's (if you already have
played with sendmail and DNS, you'll be able to
understand how the whole infrastructure works.
- Read the appropriate manuals for Sendmail and BIND (We also
recommend the O'Reilly
sendmail (Bat) and DNS&Bind books if you don't
know anything about sendmail and DNS). An O'Reilly book
on Unix admin. is also a good acquisition if you don't
have much Unix experience. Finally we'd suggest reading
"The Internet Message" by Marshall Rose for
understanding the Internet Email infrastructure.
Prerequisites
Installation and setup
- Fetch the TPC-RP distribution, either from Europe
or from the
USA
- Install
- Use your exchange file
to generate a file for sendmail called tpcmailer.cT
(it's actually a sendmail class in the form of a
file) which makes certain you will only be FAXing those
numbers you have agreed to cover. Sendmail, once
configured in our next step, will reject all other
incoming requests as not being local.
- Configure sendmail to invoke the TPC mailer script when
properly formatted mail arrives. This involves using the tpc-m4.msg mailer fragment to
build a working sendmail.cf, assuming you're using 8.7.x
sendmail. Expect more on sendmail
debugging here soon
- Alternatively, you may wish to use smail as your
MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). Build off our sample smail setup or
roll your own. . .
- Alternatively, you can use qmail as your MTA
(Mail Transfer Agent): Read our HowTO on qmail
- Test locally
- Contact tpcadmin
to include you in the TPC project
- Help him test your site
YOU'RE UP AND RUNNING!!!! :-) :-)
If you have problems and have looked for solutions in TFM (the
friendly manuals) you can:
- 1. try the USENET news groups on Linux for specific Unix
problems
- 2. likewise in the comp.mail.sendmail for sendmail probs.
- 3. likewise in the comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains for DNS
probs.
- 4. try the Hylafax mailing list for Fax problems
- 5. try the Remote Printing mailing list for RP related
problems; (but only if you believe that another half an
hour going through the manuals does not help)
But remember that it is basically something that you have to
do by yourself... That's how it works in the Internet.