From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 07:03:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA16806 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 07:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA16801 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 07:03:36 -0700 (PDT) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id QAA15801 ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:03:08 +0200 (METDST) Received: from garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (garfield) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:02:11 +0100 Received: from (af@localhost) by garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) id QAA04356 ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:01:56 +0100 (GMT-1) Message-Id: <199607201501.QAA04356@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf file ..Any Info To: chrisl@bbs.justcompute.com (Chris Lavin) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:01:56 +0100 (GMT-1) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607201328.JAA03344@only.justcompute.com> from "Chris Lavin" at Jul 20, 96 09:25:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Lavin wrote / a ecrit: > > Ok I know it must seem like a dumb question but where can I get some > documentation about the saendmail config file so that I can try to > configure sendmail the way I want it to work..What does all the stuff in > the file mean? > > Three very good sources I know of for manual configuration of sendmail.cf: . SunOS 4.1.x "System and network administration" . NeXT version of the same manual (it's called "Network and system administration" ! ;-) [Those two are a bit outdated since they deal with sendmail 5.*, but they're VERY good introductions to sendmail rules IMO] . O'Reilly book "Sendmail" ISBN 1-56592-056-2, 255 FF here and well worth that ! You may also want to grab the sources from the latest sendmail (8.7.*), it's always a very good idea to stay up to date... sendmail has been so widely used as a front door for crackers... The source come with a ./cf directory for automatic generation of sendmail.cf files from a simple configuration file using m4 macros. Bonne chance, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]