106f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 206f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro Installing sendmail 306f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 406f25ae9SGregory Neil ShapiroNote: as of sendmail 8.9, a new build architecture is in place that allows 506f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiroyou to use the "Build" shell script in any of the program directories. 606f25ae9SGregory Neil ShapiroOn many environments this will do everything for you, no fuss, no muss. 706f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 806f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro1. Read all the README files noted in the INTRODUCTION section of the README 906f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro file in this top-level directory. 1006f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 1106f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro2. Create any necessary site configuration build files, as noted in 1206f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro devtools/Site/README. 1306f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 1406f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro3. In the sendmail/ directory, run "sh Build" (see sendmail/README for 1506f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro details). 1606f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 1706f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro4. Change to the cf/cf/ directory (that's not a typo): Copy whichever .mc 1806f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro file best matches your environment to config.mc, where config can be any 1906f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro name. Next, tailor it as explained in cf/README. Then run 2006f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro "sh Build config.cf". 2106f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 2206f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro5. Back up your current /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and the sendmail binary (whose 2306f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro location varies from operating system to operating system, but is usually 2406f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro in /usr/sbin or /usr/lib). 2506f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 2606f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro6. Install config.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and install the sendmail binary 2706f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro built in step 3 by cd-ing back to sendmail/ and running "sh Build install". 2806f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 2906f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro7. For each of the associated sendmail utilities (makemap, mailstats, etc.), 3006f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro read the README in the utility's directory. When you are ready to install 3106f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro it, back up your installed version and type "sh Build install". 3206f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro 3306f25ae9SGregory Neil Shapiro$Revision: 8.3.16.1 $, Last updated $Date: 2000/05/09 20:20:44 $ 34