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- I have included two posssible setups for sendmail:
-
- - "cf/linux.smtp.mc" for people who are directly connected to the internet
- (most possible via ethernet or slip). This configuration is installed by
- default.
-
- [NOTE: I've added another version of this: "cf/linux.nodns-smtp.mc" for
- machines that do not have a nameserver. I've got two machines that are
- connected only by PPP, so I use this. Standalone LANs without maneservers
- should find this useful, too. -- Pat <volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com> ]
-
- - "cf/linux.uucp.mc", if you have one uucp host to send all mail (via uucp).
- The other uucp host must understand domain names and "normal" internet
- mail addresses like luser@host.domain.edu.
- You first have to configure uucp to work properly (/usr/conf/uucp).
- Then you have to change the name of the uucp host you are connected to in
- the sendmail config file. If you are connected to "hugo", your config file
- has a line "define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:hugo)".
-
- If you want to install a new configuration file, do as root
- "m4 linux.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf", where linux.mc is one of the above
- config files or a new one by yourself.
-
- The file README contains a good description about sendmail config files.
-
- Florian La Roche flla@stud.uni-sb.de
-
- ----------------
-
- More notes about sendmail in the Slackware distribution:
-
- Three ready-made config files are provided here: linux.nodns-smtp.cf,
- linux.smtp.cf, and linux.uucp.cf. To use one, just copy it to
- /etc/sendmail.cf. If you use the one for UUCP, you'll have to change the
- part that says:
-
- # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
- DSuucp-dom:otheruucphost
-
- ...replacing 'otheruucphost' with the name of the UUCP host you'll
- be connecting to.
-
- If you need to generate your own .cf file from a .mc file, you'll need to
- install the m4.tgz package (GNU m4), and the smailcfg.tgz package. (The
- full configuration package for BSD sendmail, plus the extra linux.*.mc
- files)
-
- This sendmail package has been configured to use 'deliver' for local mail
- delivery. 'deliver' is included in the Slackware sendmail package, so you
- don't need to install the deliver.tgz package.
-
- I'd like to thank Florian La Roche for making it so easy to compile sendmail
- for Linux, and Eric Allman for creating the sendmail system in the first
- place. Have fun! If you find any bugs that you think are my fault, please
- let me know. This is my first attempt at a binary release of sendmail so
- try to go easy on me. :^)
-
- Patrick Volkerding <volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com>
-
- (See more docs in /usr/doc/sendmail...)
-