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- From: harker@harker.com (Robert Harker)
- Subject: Sendmail Training Seminars, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.202341.20564@harker.com>
- Summary: Sendmail operation, configuration, and mail domains training seminar
- Originator: harker@harker
- Keywords: sendmail electronic mail MX records DNS IDA Ease sendmail.cf
- Sender: harker@harker.com
- Organization: Harker Systems, 840 Melville Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:23:41 GMT
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- Due to popular demand we have added a second advanced sendmail seminar to our
- offerings. (Sendmail Made Simple is a prerequisite to Advanced Sendmail.)
- These courses will also be available on video tape in the spring of this year.
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- The dates for the Sendmail seminars are as follows:
- Santa Clara, CA
- Sendmail Made Simple January 14, 1993
- Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 15, 1993
- Los Angeles, CA
- Sendmail Made Simple January 19, 1993
- Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 20, 1993
- Seattle, WA
- Sendmail Made Simple January 25, 1993
- Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 26, 1993
- Austin, TX
- Sendmail Made Simple February 8, 1993
- Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains February 9, 1993
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- These seminars are aimed at the system administrator who would like to
- understand how sendmail works and how to set up complex electronic mail domains
- using sendmail.
-
- Just to be fair, the two other courses I know of that include information
- about configuring and debugging sendmail are:
- A tutorial given by Fred Avolio, avolio@dco.dec.com, which is part of his
- one day seminar at DECUS on Setting up your mail gateway
- Rob Kolstad teaches a half day seminar on sendmail witch is offered as part
- of the USENIX conference
-
- Of course I think my classes are better because they goes into more depth about
- configuring and debugging sendmail itself, and setting up mail domains using
- DNS and MX records. But then again, I might be a tad biased about this (:-)
-
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- The one-day Sendmail Made Simple seminar covers the topics of sendmail
- operation, how to read the sendmail.cf file, how to modify the sendmail.cf file,
- and how to debug the sendmail.cf file. A pair of simple sendmail.cf files for a
- network of clients with a single UUCP mail gateway are presented. The SunOS
- 4.1.1, ULTIRX 4.2, HP-UX 8.0, and AIX 3.1 sendmail.cf files are discussed.
-
- After this one day training seminar you will be able to:
- Understand the operation of sendmail
- Understand how sendmail works with mail and SMTP and UUCP
- Understand the function and operation of sendmail.cf files
- Create custom sendmail rewriting rules to handle delivery to special addresses
- and mailers
- Debug mail addressing and delivery problems
- Debug sendmail.cf configuration files
- Understand the operation of vendor specific sendmail.cf files
- SunOS 4.1.2, DEC Ultrix 4.2, HP-UX 8.0, IBM AIX 3.1
-
- In the one-day Advanced Sendmail and Electronic Mail Domains seminar how mail
- sub-domains work, configuration of mail sub-domains and mail routing hubs,
- the purpose of Internet Mail eXchanger (MX) records, and setting up the Domain
- Naming System (DNS) to advertise MX records for domains and sub-domains.
- The Ease sendmail compiler, the m4 compiler for sendmail 5.65, IDA
- sendmail, UK-sendmail and JUNET sendmail are explained.
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- After this one day training seminar you will be able to:
- Understand the function and operation of sub-domains in a complex mail network
- Understand how to set-up mail sub-domains and mail routing hubs
- How mail delivery with-in the Internet is assisted with Mail eXchanger records
- How to set-up the Domain Naming System on a firewall gateway to provide MX
- records for domains and internal sub-domains
- How to create sendmail.cf files using the Ease and m4 sendmail compiler
- How to use the m4 sendmail compiler with configurations from:
- sendmail 5.65, IDA sendmail, UK-sendmail and JUNET
-
- An outline for both seminars is included at the end of this announcement
-
- Course Fees: US$349 either day, US$675 both days. Fees include the seminar,
- seminar notes, lunch, and refreshments.
-
- For more information call (415) 323-3862
- or send electronic mail to info@harker.com
-
-
- Registration Form:
- Santa Clara, CA
- [ ] Sendmail Made Simple January 14, 1993
- [ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 15, 1993
- Los Angeles, CA
- [ ] Sendmail Made Simple January 19, 1993
- [ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 20, 1993
- Seattle, WA
- [ ] Sendmail Made Simple January 25, 1993
- [ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 26, 1993
- Austin, TX
- [ ] Sendmail Made Simple February 8, 1993
- [ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains February 9, 1993
-
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- Phone:______________________Email Address:_______________________
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- Course Fees: US$349 either day, US$675 both days.
- Fees include the seminar, seminar notes, lunch, and refreshments.
-
-
- Registration:
- Attendance is limited and expected to fill up in advance so register early.
-
- To register MAIL the check and registration form to:
- Harker Systems,
- 840 Melville Avenue,
- Palo Alto CA 94301
- (415) 323-3862
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- Please make checks payable to Harker Systems
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- Payment must be received before the course start date.
-
- Sorry credit cards are not accepted.
-
- Hotel Information is available upon request.
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- Sendmail Made Simple Seminar Outline
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- * Introduction to using electronic mail
- How mail, UUCP, and sendmail work together
- Electronic mail address formats
- Understanding mail delivery in the Internet
- The Function of MX records
- MX forwarders and UUCP hosts
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- * Theory of sendmail operation
- What sendmail does
- How sendmail works
- Options for invoking sendmail
- Sendmail support files
- Programs used by sendmail
- Files used to create, store, and control messages
- SMTP operation
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- * Understanding the sendmail.cf file
- Function of sendmail.cf
- How sendmail processes mail addresses
- How sendmail delivers mail
- Parts of sendmail.cf
- Macro definitions
- Header rewriting
- Option definitions
- Address rewriting rules
- Understanding the rule sets
- What the function of each rule set is
- Mailer resolution rules:
- mailer, next host, address triples
- Understanding the syntax of rule rewriting
-
- * Address rewriting rules
- How do rewriting tokens work
- Function of the focus address
- Using matching tokens
- Using matching classes
- How rules are applied
- How an address matches a mailer
- Local, UUCP, Ethernet, Internet
- Configuring sendmail.cf
- Standard macro definition changes
- Creating Custom Sendmail Rewriting Rules
- Define what addresses you want to match
- Define how to rewrite the addresses
- Write a rule for the address
- Test the address with the rule
- Test other non matching addresses for bad rewrites
- Adding a custom mailer
-
- * Debugging sendmail
- sendmail.cf configuration files
- Address re-writing problems
- Queuing problems
- Forwarding problems
- Delivery problems
- Using checksendmail to check overall address rewriting
- Running sendmail in address test mode
-
- * Discussion of vendor supplied sendmail.cf Files
- SunOS 4.1.2, Ultrix 4.2, HP-UX 8.0, AIX 3.1
- Unique features of each vendor
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- Advanced Sendmail Electronic Mail Domains Seminar Outline
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- * Understanding the function of sub-domains in a complex mail network
- Overview of mail sub-domains
- Administrative control
- Grouping of hosts and users
- Mail delivery to sub-domains within a hierarchial network
- Mail delivery outside of the a hierarchial network
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- * Setting-up mail sub-domains and mail routing hubs
- Choosing sub-domains
- Setting up a sub-domain mail hub
- Hub of a group of hosts
- Communications with other sub-domains
- Communications with external mail sites
- Setting up mail hub for a mail domain
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- * Mail eXchanger (MX) records and mail delivery in the Internet
- Understanding the function of MX records
- Advertising mail forwarders with MX records
- Wild-card MX records for the mail domain as a whole
- MX records for sub-domains
- Host specific MX records
- Using MX records for delivery to a backup mail hub
- Limitations of MX records
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- * Setting-up the Domain Naming System
- Overview of DNS
- Setting up DNS for a firewall gateway
- Setting up primary server
- Setting up internal secondary server
- Setting up external secondary server
- Verifying DNS configuration
- Debugging DNS problems
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- * Installing standard Berkeley sendmail
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- * Installing IDA sendmail
- Unique features of IDA sendmail
- Operation of IDA sendmail
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- * Automatic creation of sendmail.cf files Ease 3.1 sendmail compiler
- Ease syntax
- Definition of macros, classes, options, headers, precedence,
- and trusted users
- Definition of mailers
- Definition of rule sets
- Definition of matching patterns (rewriting rules)
- Use of conditional operators in Ease
- Conversion of existing sendmail.cf files to Ease format
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- Advanced Sendmail Electronic Mail Domains Seminar Outline (cont.)
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- * Automatic creation of sendmail.cf files m4 sendmail compiler
- Overview of the m4 macro language processor
- How the m4 macro language processor is used to create
- sendmail.cf files
- Overview of the m4 template files
- Boiler plate for macros, classes, options, headers
- Standard sendmail ruleset templates, rules 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Mailer template files for local, SMTP, and UUCP
- Overview of the "mc" master configuration files
- How to create a site dependent m4 and mc files for your site
- How to use the m4 compiler to maintain sendmail.cf files for
- many sites
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- * How to use the m4 sendmail compiler with configurations from:
- sendmail 5.65, IDA sendmail, UK-sendmail and JUNET
-
- * Verifying and debugging sendmail.cf files generated by a sendmail
- compiler
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-