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- From: harker@harker.com (Robert Harker)
- Subject: Sendmail Made Simple Seminar, CA, MA, DC (was sendmail classes/books
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.032831.26317@harker.com>
- Summary: Sendmail operation and configuration training seminar
- Keywords: sendmail electronic mail training class
- Sender: harker@harker.com
- Organization: Harker Systems, 1180 Hester Ave, San Jose, CA 95126
- References: <1992Jul29.210951.18597@wvus.org>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:28:31 GMT
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- I am teaching my class on sendmail again and I thought other people reading
- this list might be interested. I am teaching this class on September 3rd in
- Santa Clara, CA, September 11th, in Boston, MA, and on September 16th, in
- Washington DC. Details follow below.
-
- 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
- The "Advanced Topics In System Administration" seminar given by Rob Kolstad
- and Evi Nemeth which includes a two hour overview of sendmail and
- the sendmail.cf file
-
- Of course I think my class is better because it goes into more depth about
- configuring and debugging sendmail itself. I go though a series of examples
- showing how to add custom rules, rule sets, and mailers. I then explain how
- to debug these additions to your sendmail.cf file.
-
- But then again, I might be a tad biased about this (:-)
-
- Thanks in advance
- RLH
-
- Robert Harker
- Harker Systems Sun Sysadmin Consulting
- harker@harker.com 1180 Hester Ave
- apple!motcsd!harker!harker San Jose, CA 95126
- uunet!harker!harker 408-295-9432
-
- ###CUT HERE###
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- Sendmail Made Simple Seminar
- September 3, Santa Clara, CA
- September 11, Boston, MA
- September 16, Washington DC
-
- This seminar is aimed at the system administrator who would like to understand
- how sendmail works and how to configure it for their environment. 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 are covered. 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
- Set up a corporate electronic mail domain with departmental sub-domains
- Set up gateways to the Internet mail network and other commercial electronic
- mail networks
- 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
-
- A seminar outline is included at the end of this announcement
-
- Registration Information
- For more information call (408) 295-9432
- or send electronic mail to info@harker.com
-
- Course Fees: $349, fee includes the seminar, seminar notes and refreshments
-
- Registration: Attendance is limited and expected to fill up in advance so
- register early. To register contact us for more information and a registration
- form. (Snail) Mail this form to:
- Harker Systems,
- 1180 Hester Avenue,
- San Jose CA 95126
- Payment must be received before the course start date.
- Sorry credit cards are not accepted.
-
- We will be offering this class again in January/February 1993
-
- Robert Harker
- Harker Systems Sun Sysadmin Consulting
- harker@harker.com 1180 Hester Ave
- uunet!harker!harker San Jose, CA 95126
- netcom!harker!harker 408-295-9432
-
-
- Sendmail Made Simple Seminar Outline
-
- * 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
-
- * 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
-
- * 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
-
- * Setting up a corporate internet mail domain
- Using a mail router hub as a gateway to a corporate mail domain
- Intelligent forwarder
- UUCP neighbors
- Internet neighbors
- Sub-domain departments or divisions
- Departmental mail hubs
- NFS clients
- Standalone mail hosts
-
- * 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
- Overall operation of the sendmail.cf file
- Which variables are used for what
- Which rules sets are used by what
- Which variables and rules sets are free
- Which mailers are supported
- How mailers rewrite S & R addressees
-
-
- Registration Form:
-
- Name & Title:____________________________________________________
-
- Organization:____________________________________________________
-
- Address:_________________________________________________________
-
- City:_______________________State:____Zip Code:__________________
-
- Phone:______________________Email Address:_______________________
-
- Please make checks payable to Harker Systems
- Please mail check and registration to:
- Harker Systems, 1180 Hester Ave, San Jose, CA 95126
-
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