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1# Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Proofpoint, Inc. and its suppliers.
2#	All rights reserved.
3# Copyright (c) 1983, 1995-1997 Eric P. Allman.  All rights reserved.
4# Copyright (c) 1988
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8# forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
9# the sendmail distribution.
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11#
12#	$Id: README,v 8.393 2013/11/22 20:51:54 ca Exp $
13#
14
15This directory contains the source files for sendmail(TM).
16
17   *******************************************************************
18   !! Read sendmail/SECURITY for important installation information !!
19   *******************************************************************
20
21	**********************************************************
22	**  Read below for more details on building sendmail.	**
23	**********************************************************
24
25**************************************************************************
26**  IMPORTANT:  Read the appropriate paragraphs in the section on	**
27**  ``Operating System and Compile Quirks''.				**
28**************************************************************************
29
30For detailed instructions, please read the document ../doc/op/op.me:
31
32	cd ../doc/op ; make op.ps op.txt
33
34Sendmail is a trademark of Proofpoint, Inc.
35US Patent Numbers 6865671, 6986037.
36
37
38+-------------------+
39| BUILDING SENDMAIL |
40+-------------------+
41
42By far, the easiest way to compile sendmail is to use the "Build"
43script:
44
45	sh ./Build
46
47This uses the "uname" command to figure out what architecture you are
48on and creates a proper Makefile accordingly.  It also creates a
49subdirectory per object format, so that multiarchitecture support is
50easy.  In general this should be all you need.  IRIX 6.x users should
51read the note below in the OPERATING SYSTEM AND COMPILE QUIRKS section.
52
53If you need to look at other include or library directories, use the
54-I or -L flags on the command line, e.g.,
55
56	sh ./Build -I/usr/sww/include -L/usr/sww/lib
57
58It's also possible to create local site configuration in the file
59site.config.m4 (or another file settable with the -f flag).  This
60file contains M4 definitions for various compilation values; the
61most useful are:
62
63confMAPDEF	-D flags to specify database types to be included
64		(see below)
65confENVDEF	-D flags to specify other environment information
66confINCDIRS	-I flags for finding include files during compilation
67confLIBDIRS	-L flags for finding libraries during linking
68confLIBS	-l flags for selecting libraries during linking
69confLDOPTS	other ld(1) linker options
70
71Others can be found by examining Makefile.m4.  Please read
72../devtools/README for more information about the site.config.m4
73file.
74
75You can recompile from scratch using the -c flag with the Build
76command.  This removes the existing compilation directory for the
77current platform and builds a new one.  The -c flag must also
78be used if any site.*.m4 file in devtools/Site/ is changed.
79
80Porting to a new Unix-based system should be a matter of creating
81an appropriate configuration file in the devtools/OS/ directory.
82
83
84+----------------------+
85| DATABASE DEFINITIONS |
86+----------------------+
87
88There are several database formats that can be used for the alias files
89and for general maps.  When used for alias files they interact in an
90attempt to be backward compatible.
91
92The options are:
93
94NEWDB		The new Berkeley DB package.  Some systems (e.g., BSD/OS and
95		Digital UNIX 4.0) have some version of this package
96		pre-installed.  If your system does not have Berkeley DB
97		pre-installed, or the version installed is not version 2.0
98		or greater (e.g., is Berkeley DB 1.85 or 1.86), get the
99		current version from http://www.sleepycat.com/.  DO NOT
100		use a version from any of the University of California,
101		Berkeley "Net" or other distributions.  If you are still
102		running BSD/386 1.x, you will need to upgrade the included
103		Berkeley DB library to a current version.  NEWDB is included
104		automatically if the Build script can find a library named
105		libdb.a or libdb.so.
106		See also OPERATING SYSTEM AND COMPILE QUIRKS about Berkeley
107		DB versions, e.g., DB 4.1.x.
108NDBM		The older NDBM implementation -- the very old V7 DBM
109		implementation is no longer supported.
110NIS		Network Information Services.  To use this you must have
111		NIS support on your system.
112NISPLUS		NIS+ (the revised NIS released with Solaris 2).  You must
113		have NIS+ support on your system to use this flag.
114HESIOD		Support for Hesiod (from the DEC/Athena distribution).  You
115		must already have Hesiod support on your system for this to
116		work.  You may be able to get this to work with the MIT/Athena
117		version of Hesiod, but that's likely to be a lot of work.
118		BIND 8.X also includes Hesiod support.
119LDAPMAP		Lightweight Directory Access Protocol support.  You will
120		have to install the UMich or OpenLDAP
121		(http://www.openldap.org/) ldap and lber libraries to use
122		this flag.
123MAP_REGEX	Regular Expression support.  You will need to use an
124		operating system which comes with the POSIX regex()
125		routines or install a regexp library such as libregex from
126		the Free Software Foundation.
127DNSMAP		DNS map support.  Requires NAMED_BIND.
128PH_MAP		PH map support.  You will need the libphclient library from
129		the nph package (http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/nph/).
130MAP_NSD		nsd map support (IRIX 6.5 and later).
131SOCKETMAP	Support for a trivial query protocol over UNIX domain or TCP
132		sockets.
133
134>>>  NOTE WELL for NEWDB support: If you want to get ndbm support, for
135>>>  Berkeley DB versions under 2.0, it is CRITICAL that you remove
136>>>  ndbm.o from libdb.a before you install it and DO NOT install ndbm.h;
137>>>  for Berkeley DB versions 2.0 through 2.3.14, remove dbm.o from libdb.a
138>>>  before you install it.  If you don't delete these, there is absolutely
139>>>  no point to including -DNDBM, since it will just get you another
140>>>  (inferior) API to the same format database.  These files OVERRIDE
141>>>  calls to ndbm routines -- in particular, if you leave ndbm.h in,
142>>>  you can find yourself using the new db package even if you don't
143>>>  define NEWDB.  Berkeley DB versions later than 2.3.14 do not need
144>>>  to be modified.  Please also consult the README in the top level
145>>>  directory of the sendmail distribution for other important information.
146>>>
147>>>  Further note: DO NOT remove your existing /usr/include/ndbm.h --
148>>>  you need that one.  But do not install an updated ndbm.h in
149>>>  /usr/include, /usr/local/include, or anywhere else.
150
151If NEWDB and NDBM are defined (but not NIS), then sendmail will read
152NDBM format alias files, but the next time a newaliases is run the
153format will be converted to NEWDB; that format will be used forever
154more.  This is intended as a transition feature.
155
156If NEWDB, NDBM, and NIS are all defined and the name of the file includes
157the string "/yp/", sendmail will rebuild BOTH the NEWDB and NDBM format
158alias files.  However, it will only read the NEWDB file; the NDBM format
159file is used only by the NIS subsystem.  This is needed because the NIS
160maps on an NIS server are built directly from the NDBM files.
161
162If NDBM and NIS are defined (regardless of the definition of NEWDB),
163and the filename includes the string "/yp/", sendmail adds the special
164tokens "YP_LAST_MODIFIED" and "YP_MASTER_NAME", both of which are
165required if the NDBM file is to be used as an NIS map.
166
167All of these flags are normally defined in a confMAPDEF setting in your
168site.config.m4.
169
170If you define NEWDB or HESIOD you get the User Database (USERDB)
171automatically.  Generally you do want to have NEWDB for it to do
172anything interesting.  See above for getting the Berkeley DB
173package (i.e., NEWDB).  There is no separate "user database"
174package -- don't bother searching for it on the net.
175
176Hesiod and LDAP require libraries that may not be installed with your
177system.  These are outside of my ability to provide support.  See the
178"Quirks" section for more information.
179
180The regex map can be used to see if an address matches a certain regular
181expression.  For example, all-numerics local parts are common spam
182addresses, so "^[0-9]+$" would match this.  By using such a map in a
183check_* rule-set, you can block a certain range of addresses that would
184otherwise be considered valid.
185
186The socket map uses a simple request/reply protocol over TCP or
187UNIX domain sockets to query an external server. Both requests and
188replies are text based and encoded as netstrings.  The socket map
189uses the same syntax as milters the specify the remote endpoint,
190e.g.:
191
192Ksocket mySocketMap inet:12345@127.0.0.1
193
194See doc/op/op.me for details.
195
196+---------------+
197| COMPILE FLAGS |
198+---------------+
199
200Wherever possible, I try to make sendmail pull in the correct
201compilation options needed to compile on various environments based on
202automatically defined symbols.  Some machines don't seem to have useful
203symbols available, requiring that a compilation flag be defined in
204the Makefile; see the devtools/OS subdirectory for the supported
205architectures.
206
207If you are a system to which sendmail has already been ported you
208should not have to touch the following symbols.  But if you are porting,
209you may have to tweak the following compilation flags in conf.h in order
210to get it to compile and link properly:
211
212SYSTEM5		Adjust for System V (not necessarily Release 4).
213SYS5SIGNALS	Use System V signal semantics -- the signal handler
214		is automatically dropped when the signal is caught.
215		If this is not set, use POSIX/BSD semantics, where the
216		signal handler stays in force until an exec or an
217		explicit delete.  Implied by SYSTEM5.
218SYS5SETPGRP	Use System V setpgrp() semantics.  Implied by SYSTEM5.
219HASNICE		Define this to zero if you lack the nice(2) system call.
220HASRRESVPORT	Define this to zero if you lack the rresvport(3) system call.
221HASFCHMOD	Define this to one if you have the fchmod(2) system call.
222		This improves security.
223HASFCHOWN	Define this to one if you have the fchown(2) system call.
224		This is required for the TrustedUser option if sendmail
225		must rebuild an (alias) map.
226HASFLOCK	Set this if you prefer to use the flock(2) system call
227		rather than using fcntl-based locking.  Fcntl locking
228		has some semantic gotchas, but many vendor systems
229		also interface it to lockd(8) to do NFS-style locking.
230		Unfortunately, may vendors implementations of fcntl locking
231		is just plain broken (e.g., locks are never released,
232		causing your sendmail to deadlock; when the kernel runs
233		out of locks your system crashes).  For this reason, I
234		recommend always defining this unless you are absolutely
235		certain that your fcntl locking implementation really works.
236HASUNAME	Set if you have the "uname" system call.  Implied by
237		SYSTEM5.
238HASUNSETENV	Define this if your system library has the "unsetenv"
239		subroutine.
240HASSETSID	Define this if you have the setsid(2) system call.  This
241		is implied if your system appears to be POSIX compliant.
242HASINITGROUPS	Define this if you have the initgroups(3) routine.
243HASSETVBUF	Define this if you have the setvbuf(3) library call.
244		If you don't, setlinebuf will be used instead.  This
245		defaults on if your compiler defines __STDC__.
246HASSETREUID	Define this if you have setreuid(2) ***AND*** root can
247		use setreuid to change to an arbitrary user.  This second
248		condition is not satisfied on AIX 3.x.  You may find that
249		your system has setresuid(2), (for example, on HP-UX) in
250		which case you will also have to #define setreuid(r, e)
251		to be the appropriate call.  Some systems (such as Solaris)
252		have a compatibility routine that doesn't work properly,
253		but may have "saved user ids" properly implemented so you
254		can ``#define setreuid(r, e) seteuid(e)'' and have it work.
255		The important thing is that you have a call that will set
256		the effective uid independently of the real or saved uid
257		and be able to set the effective uid back again when done.
258		There's a test program in ../test/t_setreuid.c that will
259		try things on your system.  Setting this improves the
260		security, since sendmail doesn't have to read .forward
261		and :include: files as root.  There are certain attacks
262		that may be unpreventable without this call.
263USESETEUID	Define this to 1 if you have a seteuid(2) system call that
264		will allow root to set only the effective user id to an
265		arbitrary value ***AND*** you have saved user ids.  This is
266		preferable to HASSETREUID if these conditions are fulfilled.
267		These are the semantics of the to-be-released revision of
268		Posix.1.  The test program ../test/t_seteuid.c will try
269		this out on your system.  If you define both HASSETREUID
270		and USESETEUID, the former is ignored.
271HASSETEGID	Define this if you have setegid(2) and it can be
272		used to set the saved gid.  Please run t_dropgid in
273		test/ if you are not sure whether the call works.
274HASSETREGID	Define this if you have setregid(2) and it can be
275		used to set the saved gid.  Please run t_dropgid in
276		test/ if you are not sure whether the call works.
277HASSETRESGID	Define this if you have setresgid(2) and it can be
278		used to set the saved gid.  Please run t_dropgid in
279		test/ if you are not sure whether the call works.
280HASLSTAT	Define this if you have symbolic links (and thus the
281		lstat(2) system call).  This improves security.  Unlike
282		most other options, this one is on by default, so you
283		need to #undef it in conf.h if you don't have symbolic
284		links (these days everyone does).
285HASSETRLIMIT	Define this to 1 if you have the setrlimit(2) syscall.
286		You can define it to 0 to force it off.  It is assumed
287		if you are running a BSD-like system.
288HASULIMIT	Define this if you have the ulimit(2) syscall (System V
289		style systems).  HASSETRLIMIT overrides, as it is more
290		general.
291HASWAITPID	Define this if you have the waitpid(2) syscall.
292HASGETDTABLESIZE
293		Define this if you have the getdtablesize(2) syscall.
294HAS_ST_GEN	Define this to 1 if your system has the st_gen field in
295		the stat structure (see stat(2)).
296HASSRANDOMDEV	Define this if your system has the srandomdev(3) function
297		call.
298HASURANDOMDEV	Define this if your system has /dev/urandom(4).
299HASSTRERROR	Define this if you have the libc strerror(3) function (which
300		should be declared in <errno.h>), and it should be used
301		instead of sys_errlist.
302HASCLOSEFROM	Define this if your system has closefrom(3).
303HASFDWALK	Define this if your system has fdwalk(3).
304SM_CONF_GETOPT	Define this as 0 if you need a reimplementation of getopt(3).
305		On some systems, getopt does very odd things if called
306		to scan the arguments twice.  This flag will ask sendmail
307		to compile in a local version of getopt that works
308		properly.  You may also need this if you build with
309		another library that introduces a non-standard getopt(3).
310NEEDSTRTOL	Define this if your standard C library does not define
311		strtol(3).  This will compile in a local version.
312NEEDFSYNC	Define this if your standard C library does not define
313		fsync(2).  This will try to simulate the operation using
314		fcntl(2); if that is not available it does nothing, which
315		isn't great, but at least it compiles and runs.
316HASGETUSERSHELL	Define this to 1 if you have getusershell(3) in your
317		standard C library.  If this is not defined, or is defined
318		to be 0, sendmail will scan the /etc/shells file (no
319		NIS-style support, defaults to /bin/sh and /bin/csh if
320		that file does not exist) to get a list of unrestricted
321		user shells.  This is used to determine whether users
322		are allowed to forward their mail to a program or a file.
323NEEDPUTENV	Define this if your system needs am emulation of the
324		putenv(3) call.  Define to 1 to implement it in terms
325		of setenv(3) or to 2 to do it in terms of primitives.
326NOFTRUNCATE	Define this if you don't have the ftruncate(2) syscall.
327		If you don't have this system call, there is an unavoidable
328		race condition that occurs when creating alias databases.
329GIDSET_T	The type of entries in a gidset passed as the second
330		argument to getgroups(2).  Historically this has been an
331		int, so this is the default, but some systems (such as
332		IRIX) pass it as a gid_t, which is an unsigned short.
333		This will make a difference, so it is important to get
334		this right!  However, it is only an issue if you have
335		group sets.
336SLEEP_T		The type returned by the system sleep() function.
337		Defaults to "unsigned int".  Don't worry about this
338		if you don't have compilation problems.
339ARBPTR_T	The type of an arbitrary pointer -- defaults to "void *".
340		If you are an very old compiler you may need to define
341		this to be "char *".
342SOCKADDR_LEN_T	The type used for the third parameter to accept(2),
343		getsockname(2), and getpeername(2), representing the
344		length of a struct sockaddr.  Defaults to int.
345SOCKOPT_LEN_T	The type used for the fifth parameter to getsockopt(2)
346		and setsockopt(2), representing the length of the option
347		buffer.  Defaults to int.
348LA_TYPE		The type of load average your kernel supports.  These
349		can be one of:
350		 LA_ZERO (1) -- it always returns the load average as
351			"zero" (and does so on all architectures).
352		 LA_INT (2) to read /dev/kmem for the symbol avenrun and
353			interpret as a long integer.
354		 LA_FLOAT (3) same, but interpret the result as a floating
355			point number.
356		 LA_SHORT (6) to interpret as a short integer.
357		 LA_SUBR (4) if you have the getloadavg(3) routine in your
358			system library.
359		 LA_MACH (5) to use MACH-style load averages (calls
360			processor_set_info()),
361		 LA_PROCSTR (7) to read /proc/loadavg and interpret it
362			as a string representing a floating-point
363			number (Linux-style).
364		 LA_READKSYM (8) is an implementation suitable for some
365			versions of SVr4 that uses the MIOC_READKSYM ioctl
366			call to read /dev/kmem.
367		 LA_DGUX (9) is a special implementation for DG/UX that uses
368			the dg_sys_info system call.
369		 LA_HPUX (10) is an HP-UX specific version that uses the
370			pstat_getdynamic system call.
371		 LA_IRIX6 (11) is an IRIX 6.x specific version that adapts
372			to 32 or 64 bit kernels; it is otherwise very similar
373			to LA_INT.
374		 LA_KSTAT (12) uses the (Solaris-specific) kstat(3k)
375			implementation.
376		 LA_DEVSHORT (13) reads a short from a system file (default:
377			/dev/table/avenrun) and scales it in the same manner
378			as LA_SHORT.
379		 LA_LONGLONG (17) to read /dev/kmem for the symbol avenrun and
380			interpret as a long long integer (e.g., for 64 bit
381			systems).
382		LA_INT, LA_SHORT, LA_FLOAT, and LA_READKSYM have several
383		other parameters that they try to divine: the name of your
384		kernel, the name of the variable in the kernel to examine,
385		the number of bits of precision in a fixed point load average,
386		and so forth.  LA_DEVSHORT uses _PATH_AVENRUN to find the
387		device to be read to find the load average.
388		In desperation, use LA_ZERO.  The actual code is in
389		conf.c -- it can be tweaked if you are brave.
390FSHIFT		For LA_INT, LA_SHORT, and LA_READKSYM, this is the number
391		of bits of load average after the binary point -- i.e.,
392		the number of bits to shift right in order to scale the
393		integer to get the true integer load average.  Defaults to 8.
394_PATH_UNIX	The path to your kernel.  Needed only for LA_INT, LA_SHORT,
395		and LA_FLOAT.  Defaults to "/unix" on System V, "/vmunix"
396		everywhere else.
397LA_AVENRUN	For LA_INT, LA_SHORT, and LA_FLOAT, the name of the kernel
398		variable that holds the load average.  Defaults to "avenrun"
399		on System V, "_avenrun" everywhere else.
400SFS_TYPE	Encodes how your kernel can locate the amount of free
401		space on a disk partition.  This can be set to SFS_NONE
402		(0) if you have no way of getting this information,
403		SFS_USTAT (1) if you have the ustat(2) system call,
404		SFS_4ARGS (2) if you have a four-argument statfs(2)
405		system call (and the include file is <sys/statfs.h>),
406		SFS_VFS (3), SFS_MOUNT (4), SFS_STATFS (5) if you have
407		the two-argument statfs(2) system call with includes in
408		<sys/vfs.h>, <sys/mount.h>, or <sys/statfs.h> respectively,
409		or SFS_STATVFS (6) if you have the two-argument statvfs(2)
410		call.  The default if nothing is defined is SFS_NONE.
411SFS_BAVAIL	with SFS_4ARGS you can also set SFS_BAVAIL to the field name
412		in the statfs structure that holds the useful information;
413		this defaults to f_bavail.
414SPT_TYPE	Encodes how your system can display what a process is doing
415		on a ps(1) command (SPT stands for Set Process Title).  Can
416		be set to:
417		SPT_NONE (0) -- Don't try to set the process title at all.
418		SPT_REUSEARGV (1) -- Pad out your argv with the information;
419			this is the default if none specified.
420		SPT_BUILTIN (2) -- The system library has setproctitle.
421		SPT_PSTAT (3) -- Use the PSTAT_SETCMD option to pstat(2)
422			to set the process title; this is used by HP-UX.
423		SPT_PSSTRINGS (4) -- Use the magic PS_STRINGS pointer (4.4BSD).
424		SPT_SYSMIPS (5) -- Use sysmips() supported by NEWS-OS 6.
425		SPT_SCO (6) -- Write kernel u. area.
426		SPT_CHANGEARGV (7) -- Write pointers to our own strings into
427			the existing argv vector.
428SPT_PADCHAR	Character used to pad the process title; if undefined,
429		the space character (0x20) is used.  This is ignored if
430		SPT_TYPE != SPT_REUSEARGV
431ERRLIST_PREDEFINED
432		If set, assumes that some header file defines sys_errlist.
433		This may be needed if you get type conflicts on this
434		variable -- otherwise don't worry about it.
435WAITUNION	The wait(2) routine takes a "union wait" argument instead
436		of an integer argument.  This is for compatibility with
437		old versions of BSD.
438SCANF		You can set this to extend the F command to accept a
439		scanf string -- this gives you a primitive parser for
440		class definitions -- BUT it can make you vulnerable to
441		core dumps if the target file is poorly formed.
442SYSLOG_BUFSIZE	You can define this to be the size of the buffer that
443		syslog accepts.  If it is not defined, it assumes a
444		1024-byte buffer.  If the buffer is very small (under
445		256 bytes) the log message format changes -- each
446		e-mail message will log many more messages, since it
447		will log each piece of information as a separate line
448		in syslog.
449BROKEN_RES_SEARCH
450		On Ultrix (and maybe other systems?) if you use the
451		res_search routine with an unknown host name, it returns
452		-1 but sets h_errno to 0 instead of HOST_NOT_FOUND.  If
453		you set this, sendmail considers 0 to be the same as
454		HOST_NOT_FOUND.
455NAMELISTMASK	If defined, values returned by nlist(3) are masked
456		against this value before use -- a common value is
457		0x7fffffff to strip off the top bit.
458BSD4_4_SOCKADDR	If defined, socket addresses have an sa_len field that
459		defines the length of this address.
460SAFENFSPATHCONF	Set this to 1 if and only if you have verified that a
461		pathconf(2) call with _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED argument on an
462		NFS filesystem where the underlying system allows users to
463		give away files to other users returns <= 0.  Be sure you
464		try both on NFS V2 and V3.  Some systems assume that their
465		local policy apply to NFS servers -- this is a bad
466		assumption!  The test/t_pathconf.c program will try this
467		for you -- you have to run it in a directory that is
468		mounted from a server that allows file giveaway.
469SIOCGIFCONF_IS_BROKEN
470		Set this if your system has an SIOCGIFCONF ioctl defined,
471		but it doesn't behave the same way as "most" systems (BSD,
472		Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, etc.)
473SIOCGIFNUM_IS_BROKEN
474		Set this if your system has an SIOCGIFNUM ioctl defined,
475		but it doesn't behave the same way as "most" systems
476		(Solaris, HP-UX).
477FAST_PID_RECYCLE
478		Set this if your system can reuse the same PID in the same
479		second.
480SO_REUSEADDR_IS_BROKEN
481		Set this if your system has a setsockopt() SO_REUSEADDR
482		flag but doesn't pay attention to it when trying to bind a
483		socket to a recently closed port.
484NEEDSGETIPNODE	Set this if your system supports IPv6 but doesn't include
485		the getipnodeby{name,addr}() functions.  Set automatically
486		for Linux's glibc.
487PIPELINING	Support SMTP PIPELINING	(set by default).
488USING_NETSCAPE_LDAP
489		Deprecated in favor of SM_CONF_LDAP_MEMFREE.  See
490		libsm/README.
491NEEDLINK	Set this if your system doesn't have a link() call.  It
492		will create a copy of the file instead of a hardlink.
493USE_ENVIRON	Set this to 1 to access process environment variables from
494		the external variable environ instead of the third
495		parameter of main().
496USE_DOUBLE_FORK By default this is on (1).  Set it to 0 to suppress the
497		extra fork() used to avoid intermediate zombies.
498ALLOW_255	Do not convert (char)0xff to (char)0x7f in headers etc.
499		This can also be done at runtime with the command line
500		option -d82.101.
501NEEDINTERRNO	Set this if <errno.h> does not declare errno, i.e., if an
502		application needs to use
503		extern int errno;
504USE_TTYPATH	Set this to 1 to enable ErrorMode=write.
505USESYSCTL	Use sysctl(3) to determine the number of CPUs in a system.
506HASSNPRINTF	Set this to 1 if your OS has a working snprintf(3), i.e.,
507		it properly obeys the size of the buffer and returns the
508		number of characters that would have been printed if the
509		size were unlimited.
510LDAP_REFERRALS	Set this if you want to use the -R flag (do not auto chase
511		referrals) for LDAP maps (requires -DLDAPMAP).
512MILTER_NO_NAGLE	Turn off Nagle algorithm for communication with libmilter
513		("cork" on Linux).  On some operating systems this may
514		improve the interprocess communication performance.
515
516
517+-----------------------+
518| COMPILE-TIME FEATURES |
519+-----------------------+
520
521There are a bunch of features that you can decide to compile in, such
522as selecting various database packages and special protocol support.
523Several are assumed based on other compilation flags -- if you want to
524"un-assume" something, you probably need to edit conf.h.  Compilation
525flags that add support for special features include:
526
527NDBM		Include support for "new" DBM library for aliases and maps.
528		Normally defined in the Makefile.
529NEWDB		Include support for Berkeley DB package (hash & btree)
530		for aliases and maps.  Normally defined in the Makefile.
531		If the version of NEWDB you have is the old one that does
532		not include the "fd" call (this call was added in version
533		1.5 of the Berkeley DB code), you must upgrade to the
534		current version of Berkeley DB.
535NIS		Define this to get NIS (YP) support for aliases and maps.
536		Normally defined in the Makefile.
537NISPLUS		Define this to get NIS+ support for aliases and maps.
538		Normally defined in the Makefile.
539HESIOD		Define this to get Hesiod support for aliases and maps.
540		Normally defined in the Makefile.
541NETINFO		Define this to get NeXT NetInfo support for aliases and maps.
542		Normally defined in the Makefile.
543LDAPMAP		Define this to get LDAP support for maps.
544PH_MAP		Define this to get PH support for maps.
545MAP_NSD		Define this to get nsd support for maps.
546USERDB		Define this to 1 to include support for the User Information
547		Database.  Implied by NEWDB or HESIOD.  You can use
548		-DUSERDB=0 to explicitly turn it off.
549IDENTPROTO	Define this as 1 to get IDENT (RFC 1413) protocol support.
550		This is assumed unless you are running on Ultrix or
551		HP-UX, both of which have a problem in the UDP
552		implementation.  You can define it to be 0 to explicitly
553		turn off IDENT protocol support.  If defined off, the code
554		is actually still compiled in, but it defaults off; you
555		can turn it on by setting the IDENT timeout in the
556		configuration file.
557IP_SRCROUTE	Define this to 1 to get IP source routing information
558		displayed in the Received: header.  This is assumed on
559		most systems, but some (e.g., Ultrix) apparently have a
560		broken version of getsockopt that doesn't properly
561		support the IP_OPTIONS call.  You probably want this if
562		your OS can cope with it.  Symptoms of failure will be that
563		it won't compile properly (that is, no support for fetching
564		IP_OPTIONs), or it compiles but source-routed TCP connections
565		either refuse to open or open and hang for no apparent reason.
566		Ultrix and AIX3 are known to fail this way.
567LOG		Set this to get syslog(3) support.  Defined by default
568		in conf.h.  You want this if at all possible.
569NETINET		Set this to get TCP/IP support.  Defined by default
570		in conf.h.  You probably want this.
571NETINET6	Set this to get IPv6 support.  Other configuration may
572		be needed in conf.h for your particular operating system.
573		Also, DaemonPortOptions must be set appropriately for
574		sendmail to accept IPv6 connections.
575NETISO		Define this to get ISO networking support.
576NETUNIX		Define this to get Unix domain networking support.  Defined
577		by default.  A few bizarre systems (SCO, ISC, Altos) don't
578		support this networking domain.
579NETNS		Define this to get NS networking support.
580NETX25		Define this to get X.25 networking support.
581NAMED_BIND	If non-zero, include DNS (name daemon) support, including
582		MX support.  The specs say you must use this if you run
583		SMTP.  You don't have to be running a name server daemon
584		on your machine to need this -- any use of the DNS resolver,
585		including remote access to another machine, requires this
586		option.  Defined by default in conf.h.  Define it to zero
587		ONLY on machines that do not use DNS in any way.
588MATCHGECOS	Permit fuzzy matching of user names against the full
589		name (GECOS) field in the /etc/passwd file.  This should
590		probably be on, since you can disable it from the config
591		file if you want to.  Defined by default in conf.h.
592MIME8TO7	If non-zero, include 8 to 7 bit MIME conversions.  This
593		also controls advertisement of 8BITMIME in the ESMTP
594		startup dialogue.
595MIME7TO8_OLD	If 0 then use an algorithm for MIME 7-bit quoted-printable
596		or base64 encoding to 8-bit text that has been introduced
597		in 8.12.3.  There are some examples where that code fails,
598		but the old code works.  If you have an example of improper
599		7 to 8 bit conversion please send it to sendmail-bugs.
600MIME7TO8	If non-zero, include 7 to 8 bit MIME conversions.
601HES_GETMAILHOST	Define this to 1 if you are using Hesiod with the
602		hes_getmailhost() routine.  This is included with the MIT
603		Hesiod distribution, but not with the DEC Hesiod distribution.
604XDEBUG		Do additional internal checking.  These don't cost too
605		much; you might as well leave this on.
606TCPWRAPPERS	Turns on support for the TCP wrappers library (-lwrap).
607		See below for further information.
608SECUREWARE	Enable calls to the SecureWare luid enabling/changing routines.
609		SecureWare is a C2 security package added to several UNIX's
610		(notably ConvexOS) to get a C2 Secure system.  This
611		option causes mail delivery to be done with the luid of the
612		recipient.
613SHARE_V1	Support for the fair share scheduler, version 1.  Setting to
614		1 causes final delivery to be done using the recipients
615		resource limitations.  So far as I know, this is only
616		supported on ConvexOS.
617SASL		Enables SMTP AUTH (RFC 2554).  This requires the Cyrus SASL
618		library (ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/).  Please
619		install at least version 1.5.13.  See below for further
620		information: SASL COMPILATION AND CONFIGURATION.  If your
621		SASL library is older than 1.5.10, you have to set this
622		to its version number using a simple conversion:  a.b.c
623		-> c + b*100 + a*10000, e.g. for 1.5.9 define SASL=10509.
624		Note: Using an older version than 1.5.5 of Cyrus SASL is
625		not supported.  Starting with version 1.5.10, setting SASL=1
626		is sufficient.  Any value other than 1 (or 0) will be
627		compared with the actual version found and if there is a
628		mismatch, compilation will fail.
629EGD		Define this if your system has EGD installed, see
630		http://egd.sourceforge.net/ .  It should be used to
631		seed the PRNG for STARTTLS if HASURANDOMDEV is not defined.
632STARTTLS	Enables SMTP STARTTLS (RFC 2487).  This requires OpenSSL
633		(http://www.OpenSSL.org/); use OpenSSL 0.9.5a or later
634		(if compatible with this version), do not use 0.9.3.
635		See STARTTLS COMPILATION AND CONFIGURATION for further
636		information.
637TLS_NO_RSA	Turn off support for RSA algorithms in STARTTLS.
638MILTER		Turn on support for external filters using the Milter API;
639		this option is set by default, to turn it off use
640			APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-DMILTER=0')
641		in devtools/Site/site.config.m4 (see devtools/README).
642		See libmilter/README for more information about milter.
643REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC	Turn on support for file systems that require to
644		call fsync() for a directory if the meta-data in it has
645		been changed.  This should be turned on at least for older
646		versions of ReiserFS; it is enabled by default for Linux.
647		According to some information this flag is not needed
648		anymore for kernel 2.4.16 and newer.  We would appreciate
649		feedback about the semantics of the various file systems
650		available for Linux.
651		An alternative to this compile time flag is to mount the
652		queue directory without the -async option, or using
653		chattr +S on Linux.
654DBMMODE		The default file permissions to use when creating new
655		database files for maps and aliases.  Defaults to 0640.
656
657Generic notice: If you enable a compile time option that needs
658libraries or include files that don't come with sendmail or are
659installed in a location that your C compiler doesn't use by default
660you should set confINCDIRS and confLIBDIRS as explained in the
661first section:  BUILDING SENDMAIL.
662
663
664+---------------------+
665| DNS/RESOLVER ISSUES |
666+---------------------+
667
668Many systems have old versions of the resolver library.  At a minimum,
669you should be running BIND 4.8.3; older versions may compile, but they
670have known bugs that should give you pause.
671
672Common problems in old versions include "undefined" errors for
673dn_skipname.
674
675Some people have had a problem with BIND 4.9; it uses some routines
676that it expects to be externally defined such as strerror().  It may
677help to link with "-l44bsd" to solve this problem.  This has apparently
678been fixed in later versions of BIND, starting around 4.9.3.  In other
679words, if you use 4.9.0 through 4.9.2, you need -l44bsd; for earlier or
680later versions, you do not.
681
682!PLEASE! be sure to link with the same version of the resolver as
683the header files you used -- some people have used the 4.9 headers
684and linked with BIND 4.8 or vice versa, and it doesn't work.
685Unfortunately, it doesn't fail in an obvious way -- things just
686subtly don't work.
687
688WILDCARD MX RECORDS ARE A BAD IDEA!  The only situation in which they
689work reliably is if you have two versions of DNS, one in the real world
690which has a wildcard pointing to your firewall, and a completely
691different version of the database internally that does not include
692wildcard MX records that match your domain.  ANYTHING ELSE WILL GIVE
693YOU HEADACHES!
694
695When attempting to canonify a hostname, some broken name servers will
696return SERVFAIL (a temporary failure) on T_AAAA (IPv6) lookups.  If you
697want to excuse this behavior, include WorkAroundBrokenAAAA in
698ResolverOptions.  However, instead, we recommend catching the problem and
699reporting it to the name server administrator so we can rid the world of
700broken name servers.
701
702
703+----------------------------------------+
704| STARTTLS COMPILATION AND CONFIGURATION |
705+----------------------------------------+
706
707Please read the documentation accompanying the OpenSSL library.  You
708have to compile and install the OpenSSL libraries before you can compile
709sendmail.  See devtools/README how to set the correct compile time
710parameters; you should at least set the following variables:
711
712APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-DSTARTTLS')
713APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-lssl -lcrypto')
714
715If you have installed the OpenSSL libraries and include files in
716a location that your C compiler doesn't use by default you should
717set confINCDIRS and confLIBDIRS as explained in the first section:
718BUILDING SENDMAIL.
719
720Configuration information can be found in doc/op/op.me (required
721certificates) and cf/README (how to tell sendmail about certificates).
722
723To perform an initial test, connect to your sendmail daemon
724(telnet localhost 25) and issue a EHLO localhost and see whether
725250-STARTTLS
726is in the response.  If it isn't, run the daemon with
727-O LogLevel=14
728and try again.  Then take a look at the logfile and see whether
729there are any problems listed about permissions (unsafe files)
730or the validity of X.509 certificates.
731
732From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
733
734    If your certificate authority is hierarchical, and you only include
735    the top-level CA certificate in the CACertFile file, some mail clients
736    may be unable to infer the proper certificate chain when selecting a
737    client certificate.  Including the bottom-level CA certificate(s) in
738    the CACertFile file will allow these clients to work properly.  This
739    is not necessary if you are not using client certificates for
740    authentication, or if all your clients are running Sendmail or other
741    programs using the OpenSSL library (which get it right automatically).
742    In addition, some mail clients are totally incapable of using
743    certificate authentication -- even some of those which already support
744    SSL/TLS for confidentiality.
745
746Further information can be found via:
747http://www.sendmail.org/tips/
748
749
750+------------------------------------+
751| SASL COMPILATION AND CONFIGURATION |
752+------------------------------------+
753
754Please read the documentation accompanying the Cyrus SASL library
755(INSTALL and README).  If you use Berkeley DB for Cyrus SASL then
756you must compile sendmail with the same version of Berkeley DB.
757See devtools/README for how to set the correct compile time parameters;
758you should at least set the following variables:
759
760APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-DSASL')
761APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-lsasl')
762
763If you have installed the Cyrus SASL library and include files in
764a location that your C compiler doesn't use by default you should
765set confINCDIRS and confLIBDIRS as explained in the first section:
766BUILDING SENDMAIL.
767
768You have to select and install authentication mechanisms and tell
769sendmail where to find the sasl library and the include files (see
770devtools/README for the parameters to set).  Set up the required
771users and passwords as explained in the SASL documentation.  See
772also cf/README for authentication related options (especially
773DefaultAuthInfo if you want authentication between MTAs).
774
775To perform an initial test, connect to your sendmail daemon
776(telnet localhost 25) and issue a EHLO localhost and see whether
777250-AUTH ....
778is in the response.  If it isn't, run the daemon with
779-O LogLevel=14
780and try again.  Then take a look at the logfile and see whether
781there are any security related problems listed (unsafe files).
782
783Further information can be found via:
784http://www.sendmail.org/tips/
785
786
787+-------------------------------------+
788| OPERATING SYSTEM AND COMPILE QUIRKS |
789+-------------------------------------+
790
791GCC problems
792	When compiling with "gcc -O -Wall" specify "-DSM_OMIT_BOGUS_WARNINGS"
793		too (see include/sm/cdefs.h for more info).
794
795	*****************************************************************
796	**  IMPORTANT:  DO NOT USE OPTIMIZATION (``-O'') IF YOU ARE    **
797	**  RUNNING GCC 2.4.x or 2.5.x.  THERE IS A BUG IN THE GCC     **
798	**  OPTIMIZER THAT CAUSES SENDMAIL COMPILES TO FAIL MISERABLY. **
799	*****************************************************************
800
801	Jim Wilson of Cygnus believes he has found the problem -- it will
802	probably be fixed in GCC 2.5.6 -- but until this is verified, be
803	very suspicious of gcc -O.  This problem is reported to have been
804	fixed in gcc 2.6.
805
806	A bug in gcc 2.5.5 caused problems compiling sendmail 8.6.5 with
807	optimization on a Sparc.  If you are using gcc 2.5.5, youi should
808	upgrade to the latest version of gcc.
809
810	Apparently GCC 2.7.0 on the Pentium processor has optimization
811	problems.  I recommend against using -O on that architecture.  This
812	has been seen on FreeBSD 2.0.5 RELEASE.
813
814	Solaris 2.X users should use version 2.7.2.3 over 2.7.2.
815
816	We have been told there are problems with gcc 2.8.0.  If you are
817	using this version, you should upgrade to 2.8.1 or later.
818
819Berkeley DB
820	Berkeley DB 4.1.x with x <= 24 does not work with sendmail.
821	You need at least 4.1.25.
822
823GDBM	GDBM does not work with sendmail because the additional
824	security checks and file locking cause problems.  Unfortunately,
825	gdbm does not provide a compile flag in its version of ndbm.h so
826	the code can adapt.  Until the GDBM authors can fix these problems,
827	GDBM will not be supported.  Please use Berkeley DB instead.
828
829Configuration file location
830	Up to 8.6, sendmail tried to find the sendmail.cf file in the same
831	place as the vendors had put it, even when this was obviously
832	stupid.  As of 8.7, sendmail ALWAYS looks for /etc/sendmail.cf.
833	Beginning with 8.10, sendmail uses /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
834	You can get sendmail to use the stupid vendor .cf location by
835	adding -DUSE_VENDOR_CF_PATH during compilation, but this may break
836	support programs and scripts that need to find sendmail.cf.  You
837	are STRONGLY urged to use symbolic links if you want to use the
838	vendor location rather than changing the location in the sendmail
839	binary.
840
841	NETINFO systems use NETINFO to determine the location of
842	sendmail.cf.  The full path to sendmail.cf is stored as the value of
843	the "sendmail.cf" property in the "/locations/sendmail"
844	subdirectory of NETINFO.  Set the value of this property to
845	"/etc/mail/sendmail.cf" (without the quotes) to use this new
846	default location for Sendmail 8.10.0 and higher.
847
848ControlSocket permissions
849	Paraphrased from BIND 8.2.1's README:
850
851	Solaris and other pre-4.4BSD kernels do not respect ownership or
852	protections on UNIX-domain sockets.  The short term fix for this is to
853	override the default path and put such control sockets into root-
854	owned directories which do not permit non-root to r/w/x through them.
855	The long term fix is for all kernels to upgrade to 4.4BSD semantics.
856
857HP MPE/iX
858	The MPE-specific code within sendmail emulates a set-user-id root
859	environment for the sendmail binary.  But there is no root uid 0 on
860	MPE, nor is there any support for set-user-id programs.  Even when
861	sendmail thinks it is running as uid 0, it will still have the file
862	access rights of the underlying non-zero uid, but because sendmail is
863	an MPE priv-mode program it will still be able to call setuid() to
864	successfully switch to a new uid.
865
866	MPE setgid() semantics don't quite work the way sendmail expects, so
867	special emulation is done here also.
868
869	This uid/gid emulation is enabled via the setuid/setgid file mode bits
870	which are not currently used by MPE.  Code in libsm/mpeix.c examines
871	these bits and enables emulation if they have been set, i.e.,
872	chmod u+s,g+s /SENDMAIL/CURRENT/SENDMAIL.
873
874SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x)
875	You may have to use -lresolv on SunOS.  However, beware that
876	this links in a new version of gethostbyname that does not
877	understand NIS, so you must have all of your hosts in DNS.
878
879	Some people have reported problems with the SunOS version of
880	-lresolv and/or in.named, and suggest that you get a newer
881	version.  The symptoms are delays when you connect to the
882	SMTP server on a SunOS machine or having your domain added to
883	addresses inappropriately.  There is a version of BIND
884	version 4.9 on gatekeeper.DEC.COM in pub/BSD/bind/4.9.
885
886	There is substantial disagreement about whether you can make
887	this work with resolv+, which allows you to specify a search-path
888	of services.  Some people report that it works fine, others
889	claim it doesn't work at all (including causing sendmail to
890	drop core when it tries to do multiple resolv+ lookups for a
891	single job).  I haven't tried resolv+, as we use DNS exclusively.
892
893	Should you want to try resolv+, it is on ftp.uu.net in
894	/networking/ip/dns.
895
896	Apparently getservbyname() can fail under moderate to high
897	load under some circumstances.  This will exhibit itself as
898	the message ``554 makeconnection: service "smtp" unknown''.
899	The problem has been traced to one or more blank lines in
900	/etc/services on the NIS server machine.  Delete these
901	and it should work.  This info is thanks to Brian Bartholomew
902	<bb@math.ufl.edu> of I-Kinetics, Inc.
903
904	NOTE: The SunOS 4.X linker uses library paths specified during
905	compilation using -L for run-time shared library searches.
906	Therefore, it is vital that relative and unsafe directory paths not
907	be used when compiling sendmail.
908
909SunOS 4.0.2 (Sun 386i)
910	Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 11:13:58 +0200 (MET DST)
911	From: teus@oce.nl
912
913	Sendmail 8.7.Beta.12 compiles and runs nearly out of the box with the
914	following changes:
915	* Don't use /usr/5bin in your PATH, but make /usr/5bin/uname
916	  available as "uname" command.
917	* Use the defines "-DBSD4_3 -DNAMED_BIND=0" in
918	  devtools/OS/SunOS.4.0, which is selected via the "uname" command.
919	I recommend to make available the db-library on the system first
920	(and change the Makefile to use this library).
921	Note that the sendmail.cf and aliases files are found in /etc.
922
923SunOS 4.1.3, 4.1.3_U1
924	Sendmail causes crashes on SunOS 4.1.3 and 4.1.3_U1.  According
925	to Sun bug number 1077939:
926
927	If an application does a getsockopt() on a SOCK_STREAM (TCP) socket
928	after the other side of the connection has sent a TCP RESET for
929	the stream, the kernel gets a Bus Trap in the tcp_ctloutput() or
930	ip_ctloutput() routine.
931
932	For 4.1.3, this is fixed in patch 100584-08, available on the
933	Sunsolve 2.7.1 or later CDs.  For 4.1.3_U1, this was fixed in patch
934	101790-01 (SunOS 4.1.3_U1: TCP socket and reset problems), later
935	obsoleted by patch 102010-05.
936
937	Sun patch 100584-08 is not currently publicly available on their
938	ftp site but a user has reported it can be found at other sites
939	using a web search engine.
940
941Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x)
942	To compile for Solaris, the Makefile built by Build must
943	include a SOLARIS definition which reflects the Solaris version
944	(i.e. -DSOLARIS=20400 for 2.4 or -DSOLARIS=20501 for 2.5.1).
945	If you are using gcc, make sure -I/usr/include is not used (or
946	it might complain about TopFrame).  If you are using Sun's cc,
947	make sure /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc is used instead of /usr/ucb/cc
948	(or it might complain about tm_zone).
949
950	The Solaris 2.x (x <= 3) "syslog" function is apparently limited
951	to something about 90 characters because of a kernel limitation.
952	If you have source code, you can probably up this number.  You
953	can get patches that fix this problem:  the patch ids are:
954
955		Solaris 2.1	100834
956		Solaris 2.2	100999
957		Solaris 2.3	101318
958
959	Be sure you have the appropriate patch installed or you won't
960	see system logging.
961
962Solaris 2.4 (SunOS 5.4)
963	If you include /usr/lib at the end of your LD_LIBRARY_PATH you run
964	the risk of getting the wrong libraries under some circumstances.
965	This is because of a new feature in Solaris 2.4, described by
966	Rod.Evans@Eng.Sun.COM:
967
968	>> Prior to SunOS 5.4, any LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting was ignored by the
969	>> runtime linker if the application was setxid (secure), thus your
970	>> applications search path would be:
971	>>
972	>>	/usr/local/lib	LD_LIBRARY_PATH component - IGNORED
973	>>	/usr/lib	LD_LIBRARY_PATH component - IGNORED
974	>>	/usr/local/lib	RPATH - honored
975	>>	/usr/lib	RPATH - honored
976	>>
977	>> the effect is that path 3 would be the first used, and this would
978	>> satisfy your resolv.so lookup.
979	>>
980	>> In SunOS 5.4 we made the LD_LIBRARY_PATH a little more flexible.
981	>> People who developed setxid applications wanted to be able to alter
982	>> the library search path to some degree to allow for their own
983	>> testing and debugging mechanisms.  It was decided that the only
984	>> secure way to do this was to allow a `trusted' path to be used in
985	>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  The only trusted directory we presently define
986	>> is /usr/lib.  Thus a set-user-ID root developer could play with some
987	>> alternative shared object implementations and place them in
988	>> /usr/lib (being root we assume they'ed have access to write in this
989	>> directory).  This change was made as part of 1155380 - after a
990	>> *huge* amount of discussion regarding the security aspect of things.
991	>>
992	>> So, in SunOS 5.4 your applications search path would be:
993	>>
994	>>	/usr/local/lib	from LD_LIBRARY_PATH - IGNORED (untrustworthy)
995	>>	/usr/lib	from LD_LIBRARY_PATH - honored (trustworthy)
996	>>	/usr/local/lib	from RPATH - honored
997	>>	/usr/lib	from RPATH - honored
998	>>
999	>> here, path 2 would be the first used.
1000
1001Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1) and 2.6 (SunOS 5.6)
1002	Apparently Solaris 2.5.1 patch 103663-01 installs a new
1003	/usr/include/resolv.h file that defines the __P macro without
1004	checking to see if it is already defined.  This new resolv.h is also
1005	included in the Solaris 2.6 distribution.  This causes compile
1006	warnings such as:
1007
1008	   In file included from daemon.c:51:
1009	   /usr/include/resolv.h:208: warning: `__P' redefined
1010	   cdefs.h:58: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
1011
1012	These warnings can be safely ignored or you can create a resolv.h
1013	file in the obj.SunOS.5.5.1.* or obj.SunOS.5.6.* directory that reads:
1014
1015	   #undef __P
1016	   #include "/usr/include/resolv.h"
1017
1018	This problem was fixed in Solaris 7 (Sun bug ID 4081053).
1019
1020Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7)
1021	Solaris 7 includes LDAP libraries but the implementation was
1022	lacking a few things.  The following settings can be placed in
1023	devtools/Site/site.SunOS.5.7.m4 if you plan on using those
1024	libraries.
1025
1026	APPENDDEF(`confMAPDEF', `-DLDAPMAP')
1027	APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DLDAP_VERSION_MAX=3')
1028	APPENDDEF(`confLIBS', `-lldap')
1029
1030	Also, Sun's patch 107555 is needed to prevent a crash in the call
1031	to ldap_set_option for LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS in ldapmap_setopts if
1032	LDAP support is compiled in sendmail.
1033
1034Solaris 8 and later (SunOS 5.8 and later)
1035	Solaris 8 and later can optionally install LDAP support.  If you
1036	have installed the Entire Distribution meta-cluster, you can use
1037	the following in devtools/Site/site.SunOS.5.8.m4 (or other
1038	appropriately versioned file) to enable LDAP:
1039
1040	APPENDDEF(`confMAPDEF', `-DLDAPMAP')
1041	APPENDDEF(`confLIBS', `-lldap')
1042
1043Solaris 9 and later (SunOS 5.9 and later)
1044	Solaris 9 and later have a revised LDAP library, libldap.so.5,
1045	which is derived from a Netscape implementation, thus requiring
1046	that SM_CONF_LDAP_MEMFREE be defined in conjunction with LDAPMAP:
1047
1048	APPENDDEF(`confMAPDEF', `-DLDAPMAP')
1049	APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DSM_CONF_LDAP_MEMFREE')
1050	APPENDDEF(`confLIBS', `-lldap')
1051
1052Solaris
1053	If you are using dns for hostname resolution on Solaris, make sure
1054	that the 'dns' entry is last on the hosts line in
1055	'/etc/nsswitch.conf'.  For example, use:
1056
1057		hosts:	nisplus files dns
1058
1059	Do not use:
1060
1061		hosts:  nisplus dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
1062
1063	Note that 'nisplus' above is an illustration.  The same comment
1064	applies no matter what naming services you are using.  If you have
1065	anything other than dns last, even after "[NOTFOUND=return]",
1066	sendmail may not be able to determine whether an error was
1067	temporary or permanent.  The error returned by the solaris
1068	gethostbyname() is the error for the last lookup used, and other
1069	naming services do not have the same concept of temporary failure.
1070
1071Ultrix
1072	By default, the IDENT protocol is turned off on Ultrix.  If you
1073	are running Ultrix 4.4 or later, or if you have included patch
1074	CXO-8919 for Ultrix 4.2 or 4.3 to fix the TCP problem, you can turn
1075	IDENT on in the configuration file by setting the "ident" timeout.
1076
1077	The Ultrix 4.5 Y2K patch (ULTV45-022-1) has changed the resolver
1078	included in libc.a.  Unfortunately, the __RES symbol hasn't changed
1079	and therefore, sendmail can no longer automatically detect the
1080	newer version.  If you get a compiler error:
1081
1082	/lib/libc.a(gethostent.o): local_hostname_length: multiply defined
1083
1084	Then rebuild with this in devtools/Site/site.ULTRIX.m4:
1085
1086	APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-DNEEDLOCAL_HOSTNAME_LENGTH=0')
1087
1088Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OSF/1)
1089	If you are compiling on OSF/1 (DEC Alpha), you must use
1090	-L/usr/shlib (otherwise it core dumps on startup).  You may also
1091	need -mld to get the nlist() function, although some versions
1092	apparently don't need this.
1093
1094	Also, the enclosed makefile removed /usr/sbin/smtpd; if you need
1095	it, just create the link to the sendmail binary.
1096
1097	On DEC OSF/1 3.2 or earlier, the MatchGECOS option doesn't work
1098	properly due to a bug in the getpw* routines.  If you want to use
1099	this, use -DDEC_OSF_BROKEN_GETPWENT=1.  The problem is fixed in 3.2C.
1100
1101	Digital's mail delivery agent, /bin/mail (aka /bin/binmail), will
1102	only preserve the envelope sender in the "From " header if
1103	DefaultUserID is set to daemon.  Setting this to mailnull will
1104	cause all mail to have the header "From mailnull ...".  To use
1105	a different DefaultUserID, you will need to use a different mail
1106	delivery agent (such as mail.local found in the sendmail
1107	distribution).
1108
1109	On Digital UNIX 4.0 and later, Berkeley DB 1.85 is included with the
1110	operating system and already has the ndbm.o module removed.  However,
1111	Digital has modified the original Berkeley DB db.h include file.
1112	This results in the following warning while compiling map.c and udb.c:
1113
1114	cc: Warning: /usr/include/db.h, line 74: The redefinition of the macro
1115	 "__signed" conflicts with a current definition because the replacement
1116	 lists differ.  The redefinition is now in effect.
1117	#define __signed        signed
1118	------------------------^
1119
1120	This warning can be ignored.
1121
1122	Digital UNIX's linker checks /usr/ccs/lib/ before /usr/lib/.
1123	If you have installed a new version of BIND in /usr/include
1124	and /usr/lib, you will experience difficulties as Digital ships
1125	libresolv.a in /usr/ccs/lib/ as well.  Be sure to replace both
1126	copies of libresolv.a.
1127
1128IRIX
1129	The header files on SGI IRIX are completely prototyped, and as
1130	a result you can sometimes get some warning messages during
1131	compilation.  These can be ignored.  There are two errors in
1132	deliver only if you are using gcc, both of the form ``warning:
1133	passing arg N of `execve' from incompatible pointer type''.
1134	Also, if you compile with -DNIS, you will get a complaint
1135	about a declaration of struct dom_binding in a prototype
1136	when compiling map.c; this is not important because the
1137	function being prototyped is not used in that file.
1138
1139	In order to compile sendmail you will have had to install
1140	the developers' option in order to get the necessary include
1141	files.
1142
1143	If you compile with -lmalloc (the fast memory allocator), you may
1144	get warning messages such as the following:
1145
1146	   ld32: WARNING 85: definition of _calloc in /usr/lib32/libmalloc.so
1147		preempts that definition in /usr/lib32/mips3/libc.so.
1148	   ld32: WARNING 85: definition of _malloc in /usr/lib32/libmalloc.so
1149		preempts that definition in /usr/lib32/mips3/libc.so.
1150	   ld32: WARNING 85: definition of _realloc in /usr/lib32/libmalloc.so
1151		preempts that definition in /usr/lib32/mips3/libc.so.
1152	   ld32: WARNING 85: definition of _free in /usr/lib32/libmalloc.so
1153		preempts that definition in /usr/lib32/mips3/libc.so.
1154	   ld32: WARNING 85: definition of _cfree in /usr/lib32/libmalloc.so
1155		preempts that definition in /usr/lib32/mips3/libc.so.
1156
1157	These are unavoidable and innocuous -- just ignore them.
1158
1159	According to Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov>, there is a version of the
1160	Berkeley DB library patched to run on Irix 6.2 available from
1161	http://reality.sgi.com/ariel/freeware/#db .
1162
1163IRIX 6.x
1164	If you are using XFS filesystem, avoid using the -32 ABI switch to
1165	the cc compiler if possible.
1166
1167	Broken inet_aton and inet_ntoa on IRIX using gcc: There's
1168	a problem with gcc on IRIX, i.e., gcc can't pass structs
1169	less than 16 bits long unless they are 8 bits; IRIX 6.2 has
1170	some other sized structs.  See
1171	http://www.bitmechanic.com/mail-archives/mysql/current/0418.html
1172	This problem seems to be fixed by gcc v2.95.2, gcc v2.8.1
1173	is reported as broken.  Check your gcc version for this bug
1174	before installing sendmail.
1175
1176IRIX 6.4
1177	The IRIX 6.5.4 version of /bin/m4 does not work properly with
1178	sendmail.  Either install fw_m4.sw.m4 off the Freeware_May99 CD and
1179	use /usr/freeware/bin/m4 or install and use GNU m4.
1180
1181NeXT or NEXTSTEP
1182	NEXTSTEP 3.3 and earlier ship with the old DBM library.  Also,
1183	Berkeley DB does not currently run on NEXTSTEP.
1184
1185	If you are compiling on NEXTSTEP, you will have to create an
1186	empty file "unistd.h" and create a file "dirent.h" containing:
1187
1188		#include <sys/dir.h>
1189		#define dirent	direct
1190
1191	(devtools/OS/NeXT should try to do both of these for you.)
1192
1193	Apparently, there is a bug in getservbyname on Nextstep 3.0
1194	that causes it to fail under some circumstances with the
1195	message "SYSERR: service "smtp" unknown" logged.  You should
1196	be able to work around this by including the line:
1197
1198		OOPort=25
1199
1200	in your .cf file.
1201
1202BSDI (BSD/386) 1.0, NetBSD 0.9, FreeBSD 1.0
1203	The "m4" from BSDI won't handle the config files properly.
1204	I haven't had a chance to test this myself.
1205
1206	The M4 shipped in FreeBSD and NetBSD 0.9 don't handle the config
1207	files properly.  One must use either GNU m4 1.1 or the PD-M4
1208	recently posted in comp.os.386bsd.bugs (and maybe others).
1209	NetBSD-current includes the PD-M4 (as stated in the NetBSD file
1210	CHANGES).
1211
1212	FreeBSD 1.0 RELEASE has uname(2) now.  Use -DUSEUNAME in order to
1213	use it (look into devtools/OS/FreeBSD).  NetBSD-current may have
1214	it too but it has not been verified.
1215
1216	The latest version of Berkeley DB uses a different naming
1217	scheme than the version that is supplied with your release.  This
1218	means you will be able to use the current version of Berkeley DB
1219	with sendmail as long you use the new db.h when compiling
1220	sendmail and link it against the new libdb.a or libdb.so.  You
1221	should probably keep the original db.h in /usr/include and the
1222	new db.h in /usr/local/include.
1223
12244.3BSD
1225	If you are running a "virgin" version of 4.3BSD, you'll have
1226	a very old resolver and be missing some header files.  The
1227	header files are simple -- create empty versions and everything
1228	will work fine.  For the resolver you should really port a new
1229	version (4.8.3 or later) of the resolver; 4.9 is available on
1230	gatekeeper.DEC.COM in pub/BSD/bind/4.9.  If you are really
1231	determined to continue to use your old, buggy version (or as
1232	a shortcut to get sendmail working -- I'm sure you have the
1233	best intentions to port a modern version of BIND), you can
1234	copy ../contrib/oldbind.compat.c into sendmail and add the
1235	following to devtools/Site/site.config.m4:
1236
1237	APPENDDEF(`confOBJADD', `oldbind.compat.o')
1238
1239OpenBSD (up to 2.9 Release), NetBSD, FreeBSD (up to 4.3-RELEASE)
1240	m4 from *BSD won't handle libsm/Makefile.m4 properly, since the
1241	maximum length for strings is too short.  You need to use GNU m4
1242	or patch m4, see for example:
1243  http://FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/m4/eval.c.diff?r1=1.11&r2=1.12
1244
1245A/UX
1246	Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 18:28:28 -0400 (EDT)
1247	From: "Eric C. Hagberg" <hagberg@med.cornell.edu>
1248	Subject: Fix for A/UX ndbm
1249
1250	I guess this isn't really a sendmail bug, however, it is something
1251	that A/UX users should be aware of when compiling sendmail 8.6.
1252
1253	Apparently, the calls that sendmail is using to the ndbm routines
1254	in A/UX 3.0.x contain calls to "broken" routines, in that the
1255	aliases database will break when it gets "just a little big"
1256	(sorry I don't have exact numbers here, but it broke somewhere
1257	around 20-25 aliases for me.), making all aliases non-functional
1258	after exceeding this point.
1259
1260	What I did was to get the gnu-dbm-1.6 package, compile it, and
1261	then re-compile sendmail with "-lgdbm", "-DNDBM", and using the
1262	ndbm.h header file that comes with the gnu-package.  This makes
1263	things behave properly.
1264	  [NOTE: see comment above about GDBM]
1265
1266	I suppose porting the New Berkeley DB package is another route,
1267	however, I made a quick attempt at it, and found it difficult
1268	(not easy at least); the gnu-dbm package "configured" and
1269	compiled easily.
1270
1271	  [NOTE: Berkeley DB version 2.X runs on A/UX and can be used for
1272	  database maps.]
1273
1274SCO Unix
1275	From: Thomas Essebier <tom@stallion.oz.au>
1276	Organisation:  Stallion Technologies Pty Ltd.
1277
1278	It will probably help those who are trying to configure sendmail 8.6.9
1279	to know that if they are on SCO, they had better set
1280		OI-dnsrch
1281	or they will core dump as soon as they try to use the resolver.
1282	i.e., although SCO has _res.dnsrch defined, and is kinda BIND 4.8.3,
1283	it does not inititialise it, nor does it understand 'search' in
1284	/etc/named.boot.
1285		- sigh -
1286
1287	According to SCO, the m4 which ships with UnixWare 2.1.2 is broken.
1288	We recommend installing GNU m4 before attempting to build sendmail.
1289
1290	On some versions a bogus error value is listed if connections
1291	time out (large negative number).  To avoid this explicitly set
1292	Timeout.connect to a reasonable value (several minutes).
1293
1294DG/UX
1295	Doug Anderson <dlander@afterlife.ncsc.mil> has successfully run
1296	V8 on the DG/UX 5.4.2 and 5.4R3.x platforms under heavy usage.
1297	Originally, the DG /bin/mail program wasn't compatible with
1298	the V8 sendmail, since the DG /bin/mail requires the environment
1299	variable "_FORCE_MAIL_LOCAL_=yes" be set.  Version 8.7 now includes
1300	this in the environment before invoking the local mailer.  Some
1301	have used procmail to avoid this problem in the past.  It works
1302	but some have experienced file locking problems with their DG/UX
1303	ports of procmail.
1304
1305Apollo DomainOS
1306	If you are compiling on Apollo, you will have to create an empty
1307	file "unistd.h" (for DomainOS 10.3 and earlier) and create a file
1308	"dirent.h" containing:
1309
1310		#include <sys/dir.h>
1311		#define dirent	direct
1312
1313	(devtools/OS/DomainOS will attempt to do both of these for you.)
1314
1315HP-UX 8.00
1316	Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 13:25:45 +0200
1317	From: Kimmo Suominen <Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi>
1318	Subject: 8.6.5 w/ HP-UX 8.00 on s300
1319
1320	Just compiled and fought with sendmail 8.6.5 on a HP9000/360 (i.e.,
1321	a series 300 machine) running HP-UX 8.00.
1322
1323	I was getting segmentation fault when delivering to a local user.
1324	With debugging I saw it was faulting when doing _free@libc... *sigh*
1325	It seems the new implementation of malloc on s300 is buggy as of 8.0,
1326	so I tried out the one in -lmalloc (malloc(3X)).  With that it seems
1327	to work just dandy.
1328
1329	When linking, you will get the following error:
1330
1331	ld: multiply defined symbol _freespace in file /usr/lib/libmalloc.a
1332
1333	but you can just ignore it.  You might want to add this info to the
1334	README file for the future...
1335
1336Linux
1337	Something broke between versions 0.99.13 and 0.99.14 of Linux: the
1338	flock() system call gives errors.  If you are running .14, you must
1339	not use flock.  You can do this with -DHASFLOCK=0.  We have also
1340	been getting complaints since version 2.4.X was released.
1341	sendmail 8.13 has changed the default locking method to fcntl()
1342	for Linux kernel version 2.4 and later.  Be sure to update other
1343	sendmail related programs to match locking techniques (some
1344	examples, besides makemap and mail.local, include procmail, mailx,
1345	mutt, elm, etc).
1346
1347	Around the inclusion of bind-4.9.3 & Linux libc-4.6.20, the
1348	initialization of the _res structure changed.  If /etc/hosts.conf
1349	was configured as "hosts, bind" the resolver code could return
1350	"Name server failure" errors.  This is supposedly fixed in
1351	later versions of libc (>= 4.6.29?), and later versions of
1352	sendmail (> 8.6.10) try to work around the problem.
1353
1354	Some older versions (< 4.6.20?) of the libc/include files conflict
1355	with sendmail's version of cdefs.h.  Deleting sendmail's version
1356	on those systems should be non-harmful, and new versions don't care.
1357
1358	NOTE ON LINUX & BIND:  By default, the Makefile generated for Linux
1359	includes header files in /usr/local/include and libraries in
1360	/usr/local/lib.  If you've installed BIND on your system, the header
1361	files typically end up in the search path and you need to add
1362	"-lresolv" to the LIBS line in your Makefile.  Really old versions
1363	may need to include "-l44bsd" as well (particularly if the link phase
1364	complains about missing strcasecmp, strncasecmp or strpbrk).
1365	Complaints about an undefined reference to `__dn_skipname' in
1366	domain.o are a sure sign that you need to add -lresolv to LIBS.
1367	Newer versions of Linux are basically threaded BIND, so you may or
1368	may not see complaints if you accidentally mix BIND
1369	headers/libraries with virginal libc.  If you have BIND headers in
1370	/usr/local/include (resolv.h, etc) you *should* be adding -lresolv
1371	to LIBS.  Data structures may change and you'd be asking for a
1372	core dump.
1373
1374	A number of problems have been reported regarding the Linux 2.2.0
1375	kernel.  So far, these problems have been tracked down to syslog()
1376	and DNS resolution.  We believe the problem is with the poll()
1377	implementation in the Linux 2.2.0 kernel and poll()-aware versions
1378	of glib (at least up to 2.0.111).
1379
1380glibc
1381	glibc 2.2.1 (and possibly other versions) changed the value of
1382	__RES in resolv.h but failed to actually provide the IPv6 API
1383	changes that the change implied.  Therefore, compiling with
1384	-DNETINET6 fails.
1385
1386	Workarounds:
1387	1) Compile without -DNETINET6
1388	2) Build against a real BIND 8.2.2 include/lib tree
1389	3) Wait for glibc to fix it
1390
1391AIX 4.X
1392	The AIX 4.X linker uses library paths specified during compilation
1393	using -L for run-time shared library searches.  Therefore, it is
1394	vital that relative and unsafe directory paths not be using when
1395	compiling sendmail.  Because of this danger, by default, compiles
1396	on AIX use the -blibpath option to limit shared libraries to
1397	/usr/lib and /lib.  If you need to allow more directories, such as
1398	/usr/local/lib, modify your devtools/Site/site.AIX.4.2.m4,
1399	site.AIX.4.3.m4, and/or site.AIX.4.x.m4 file(s) and set confLDOPTS
1400	appropriately.  For example:
1401
1402	define(`confLDOPTS', `-blibpath:/usr/lib:/lib:/usr/local/lib')
1403
1404	Be sure to only add (safe) system directories.
1405
1406	The AIX version of GNU ld also exhibits this problem.  If you are
1407	using that version, instead of -blibpath, use its -rpath option.
1408	For example:
1409
1410	gcc -Wl,-rpath /usr/lib -Wl,-rpath /lib -Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib
1411
1412AIX 4.X	If the test program t-event (and most others) in libsm fails,
1413	check your compiler settings.  It seems that the flags -qnoro or
1414	-qnoroconst on some AIX versions trigger a compiler bug.  Check
1415	your compiler settings or use cc instead of xlc.
1416
1417AIX 4.0-4.2, maybe some AIX 4.3 versions
1418	The AIX m4 implements a different mechanism for ifdef which is
1419	inconsistent with other versions of m4.  Therefore, it will not
1420	work properly with the sendmail Build architecture or m4
1421	configuration method.  To work around this problem, please use
1422	GNU m4 from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/.
1423	The problem seems to be solved in AIX 4.3.3 at least.
1424
1425AIX 4.3.3
1426	From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
1427	Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 03:58:02 -0400
1428
1429	Under AIX 4.3.3, after applying bos.adt.include 4.3.3.12 to close the
1430	BIND 8.2.2 security holes, you can no longer build with  -DNETINET6
1431	because they changed the value of __RES in resolv.h but failed to
1432	actually provide the API changes that the change implied.
1433
1434	Workarounds:
1435	1) Compile without -DNETINET6
1436	2) Build against a real BIND 8.2.2 include/lib tree
1437	3) Wait for IBM to fix it
1438
1439AIX 3.x
1440	This version of sendmail does not support MB, MG, and MR resource
1441	records, which are supported by AIX sendmail.
1442
1443	Several people have reported that the IBM-supplied named returns
1444	fairly random results -- the named should be replaced.  It is not
1445	necessary to replace the resolver, which will simplify installation.
1446	A new BIND resolver can be found at http://www.isc.org/isc/.
1447
1448AIX 3.1.x
1449	The supplied load average code only works correctly for AIX 3.2.x.
1450	For 3.1, use -DLA_TYPE=LA_SUBR and get the latest ``monitor''
1451	package by Jussi Maki <jmaki@hut.fi> from ftp.funet.fi in the
1452	directory pub/unix/AIX/rs6000/monitor-1.12.tar.Z; use the loadavgd
1453	daemon, and the getloadavg subroutine supplied with that package.
1454	If you don't care about load average throttling, just turn off
1455	load average checking using -DLA_TYPE=LA_ZERO.
1456
1457RISC/os
1458	RISC/os from MIPS is a merged AT&T/Berkeley system.  When you
1459	compile on that platform you will get duplicate definitions
1460	on many files.  You can ignore these.
1461
1462System V Release 4 Based Systems
1463	There is a single devtools OS that is intended for all SVR4-based
1464	systems (built from devtools/OS/SVR4).  It defines __svr4__,
1465	which is predefined by some compilers.  If your compiler already
1466	defines this compile variable, you can delete the definition from
1467	the generated Makefile or create a devtools/Site/site.config.m4
1468	file.
1469
1470	It's been tested on Dell Issue 2.2.
1471
1472DELL SVR4
1473	Date:      Mon, 06 Dec 1993 10:42:29 EST
1474	From: "Kimmo Suominen" <kim@grendel.lut.fi>
1475	Message-ID: <2d0352f9.lento29@lento29.UUCP>
1476	To: eric@cs.berkeley.edu
1477	Cc: sendmail@cs.berkeley.edu
1478	Subject:   Notes for DELL SVR4
1479
1480	Eric,
1481
1482	Here are some notes for compiling Sendmail 8.6.4 on DELL SVR4.  I ran
1483	across these things when helping out some people who contacted me by
1484	e-mail.
1485
1486	1) Use gcc 2.4.5 (or later?).  Dell distributes gcc 2.1 with their
1487	   Issue 2.2 Unix.  It is too old, and gives you problems with
1488	   clock.c, because sigset_t won't get defined in <sys/signal.h>.
1489	   This is due to a problematic protection rule in there, and is
1490	   fixed with gcc 2.4.5.
1491
1492	2) If you don't use the new Berkeley DB (-DNEWDB), then you need
1493	   to add "-lc -lucb" to the libraries to link with.  This is because
1494	   the -ldbm distributed by Dell needs the bcopy, bcmp and bzero
1495	   functions.  It is important that you specify both libraries in
1496	   the given order to be sure you only get the BSTRING functions
1497	   from the UCB library (and not the signal routines etc.).
1498
1499	3) Don't leave out "-lelf" even if compiling with "-lc -lucb".
1500	   The UCB library also has another copy of the nlist routines,
1501	   but we do want the ones from "-lelf".
1502
1503	If anyone needs a compiled gcc 2.4.5 and/or a ported DB library, they
1504	can use anonymous ftp to fetch them from lut.fi in the /kim directory.
1505	They are copies of what I use on grendel.lut.fi, and offering them
1506	does not imply that I would also support them.  I have sent the DB
1507	port for SVR4 back to Keith Bostic for inclusion in the official
1508	distribution, but I haven't heard anything from him as of today.
1509
1510	- gcc-2.4.5-svr4.tar.gz	(gcc 2.4.5 and the corresponding libg++)
1511	- db-1.72.tar.gz	(with source, objects and a installed copy)
1512
1513	Cheers
1514	+ Kim
1515	--
1516	 *  Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi  *  SysVr4 enthusiast at GRENDEL.LUT.FI  *
1517	*    KIM@FINFILES.BITNET   *  Postmaster and Hostmaster at LUT.FI   *
1518	 *    + 358 200 865 718    *  Unix area moderator at NIC.FUNET.FI  *
1519
1520ConvexOS 10.1 and below
1521	In order to use the name server, you must create the file
1522	/etc/use_nameserver.  If this file does not exist, the call
1523	to res_init() will fail and you will have absolutely no
1524	access to DNS, including MX records.
1525
1526Amdahl UTS 2.1.5
1527	In order to get UTS to work, you will have to port BIND 4.9.
1528	The vendor's BIND is reported to be ``totally inadequate.''
1529	See sendmail/contrib/AmdahlUTS.patch for the patches necessary
1530	to get BIND 4.9 compiled for UTS.
1531
1532UnixWare
1533	According to Alexander Kolbasov <sasha@unitech.gamma.ru>,
1534	the m4 on UnixWare 2.0 (still in Beta) will core dump on the
1535	config files.  GNU m4 and the m4 from UnixWare 1.x both work.
1536
1537	According to Larry Rosenman <ler@lerami.lerctr.org>:
1538
1539		UnixWare 2.1.[23]'s m4 chokes (not obviously) when
1540		processing the 8.9.0 cf files.
1541
1542		I had a LOCAL_RULE_0 that wound up AFTER the
1543		SBasic_check_rcpt rules using the SCO supplied M4.
1544		GNU M4 works fine.
1545
1546UNICOS 8.0.3.4
1547	Some people have reported that the -O flag on UNICOS can cause
1548	problems.  You may want to turn this off if you have problems
1549	running sendmail.  Reported by Jerry G. DeLapp <jgd@acl.lanl.gov>.
1550
1551Darwin/Mac OS X (10.X.X)
1552	The linker errors produced regarding getopt() and its associated
1553	variables can safely be ignored.
1554
1555	From Mike Zimmerman <zimmy@torrentnet.com>:
1556
1557	From scratch here is what Darwin users need to do to the standard
1558	10.0.0, 10.0.1 install to get sendmail working.
1559	From http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=6dac0e9e1f3fd118a4870a8a9b559491&threadid=2242:
1560	1. chmod g-w / /private /private/etc
1561	2. Properly set HOSTNAME in /etc/hostconfig to your FQDN:
1562	   HOSTNAME=-my.domain.com-
1563	3. Edit /etc/rc.boot:
1564	   hostname my.domain.com
1565	   domainname domain.com
1566	4. Edit /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail:
1567	   Remove the "&" after the sendmail command:
1568	   /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
1569
1570	From Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.com>:
1571
1572	The easiest workaround is to remove the group-writable permission
1573	for the root directory and the symbolic /etc inherits this
1574	change. While this does fix sendmail, the unfortunate side-effect
1575	is the OS X admin will no longer be able to manipulate icons in the
1576	top level of the Startup disk unless logged into the GUI as the
1577	superuser.
1578
1579	In applying the alternate workaround, care must be taken while
1580	swapping the symlink /etc with the directory /private/etc. In all
1581	likelihood any admin who is concerned with this sendmail error has
1582	enough experience to not accidentally harm anything in the process.
1583
1584	a. Swap the /etc symlink with /private/etc (as superuser):
1585	   rm /etc
1586	   mv /private/etc /etc
1587	   ln -s /etc /private/etc
1588
1589	b. Set / to group unwritable (as superuser):
1590	   chmod g-w /
1591
1592Darwin/Mac OS X (10.1.5)
1593	Apple's upgrade to sendmail 8.12 is incorrectly configured.  You
1594	will need to manually fix it up by doing the following:
1595
1596	1. chown smmsp:smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue
1597	2. chmod 2770 /var/spool/clientmqueue
1598	3. chgrp smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail
1599	4. chmod g+s /usr/sbin/sendmail
1600
1601	From Daniel J. Luke <dluke@geeklair.net>:
1602
1603	It appears that setting the sendmail.cf property in
1604	/locations/sendmail in NetInfo on Mac OS X 10.1.5 with sendmail
1605	8.12.4 causes 'bad things' to happen.
1606
1607	Specifically sendmail instances that should be getting their config
1608	from /etc/mail/submit.cf don't (so mail/mutt/perl scripts which
1609	open pipes to sendmail stop working as sendmail tries to write to
1610	/var/spool/mqueue and cannot as sendmail is no longer suid root).
1611
1612	Removing the entry from NetInfo fixes this problem.
1613
1614GNU getopt
1615	I'm told that GNU getopt has a problem in that it gets confused
1616	by the double call.  Use the version in conf.c instead.
1617
1618BIND 4.9.2 and Ultrix
1619	If you are running on Ultrix, be sure you read conf/Info.Ultrix
1620	in the BIND distribution very carefully -- there is information
1621	in there that you need to know in order to avoid errors of the
1622	form:
1623
1624		/lib/libc.a(gethostent.o): sethostent: multiply defined
1625		/lib/libc.a(gethostent.o): endhostent: multiply defined
1626		/lib/libc.a(gethostent.o): gethostbyname: multiply defined
1627		/lib/libc.a(gethostent.o): gethostbyaddr: multiply defined
1628
1629	during the link stage.
1630
1631BIND 8.X
1632	BIND 8.X returns HOST_NOT_FOUND instead of TRY_AGAIN on temporary
1633	DNS failures when trying to find the hostname associated with an IP
1634	address (gethostbyaddr()).  This can cause problems as
1635	$&{client_name} based lookups in class R ($=R) and the access
1636	database won't succeed.
1637
1638	This will be fixed in BIND 8.2.1.  For earlier versions, this can
1639	be fixed by making "dns" the last name service queried for host
1640	resolution in /etc/irs.conf:
1641
1642		hosts local continue
1643		hosts dns
1644
1645strtoul
1646	Some compilers (notably gcc) claim to be ANSI C but do not
1647	include the ANSI-required routine "strtoul".  If your compiler
1648	has this problem, you will get an error in srvrsmtp.c on the
1649	code:
1650
1651	  # ifdef defined(__STDC__) && !defined(BROKEN_ANSI_LIBRARY)
1652			e->e_msgsize = strtoul(vp, (char **) NULL, 10);
1653	  # else
1654			e->e_msgsize = strtol(vp, (char **) NULL, 10);
1655	  # endif
1656
1657	You can use -DBROKEN_ANSI_LIBRARY to get around this problem.
1658
1659Listproc 6.0c
1660	Date: 23 Sep 1995 23:56:07 GMT
1661	Message-ID: <95925101334.~INN-AUMa00187.comp-news@dl.ac.uk>
1662	From: alansz@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Alan Schwartz)
1663	Subject: Listproc 6.0c + Sendmail 8.7 [Helpful hint]
1664
1665	Just upgraded to sendmail 8.7, and discovered that listproc 6.0c
1666	breaks, because it, by default, sends a blank "HELO" rather than
1667	a "HELO hostname" when using the 'system' or 'telnet' mail method.
1668
1669	The fix is to include -DZMAILER in the compilation, which will
1670	cause it to use "HELO hostname" (which Z-mail apparently requires
1671	as well. :)
1672
1673OpenSSL
1674	OpenSSL versions prior to 0.9.6 use a macro named Free which
1675	conflicts with existing macro names on some platforms, such as
1676	AIX.
1677	Do not use 0.9.3, but OpenSSL 0.9.5a or later if compatible with
1678	0.9.5a.
1679
1680PH
1681	PH support is provided by Mark Roth <roth@uiuc.edu>.  The map is
1682	described at http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/sendmail/ .
1683
1684	NOTE: The "spacedname" pseudo-field which was used by earlier
1685	versions of the PH map code is no longer supported!  See the URL
1686	listed above for more information.
1687
1688	Please contact Mark Roth for support and questions regarding the
1689	map.
1690
1691TCP Wrappers
1692	If you are using -DTCPWRAPPERS to get TCP Wrappers support you will
1693	also need to install libwrap.a and modify your site.config.m4 file
1694	or the generated Makefile to include -lwrap in the LIBS line
1695	(make sure that INCDIRS and LIBDIRS point to where the tcpd.h and
1696	libwrap.a can be found).
1697
1698	TCP Wrappers is available at ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/.
1699
1700	If you have alternate MX sites for your site, be sure that all of
1701	your MX sites reject the same set of hosts.  If not, a bad guy whom
1702	you reject will connect to your site, fail, and move on to the next
1703	MX site, which will accept the mail for you and forward it on to you.
1704
1705Regular Expressions (MAP_REGEX)
1706	If sendmail linking fails with:
1707
1708		undefined reference to 'regcomp'
1709
1710	or sendmail gives an error about a regular expression with:
1711
1712		pattern-compile-error: : Operation not applicable
1713
1714	Your libc does not include a running version of POSIX-regex.  Use
1715	librx or regex.o from the GNU Free Software Foundation,
1716	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rx-?.?.tar.gz or
1717	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/regex-?.?.tar.gz.
1718	You can also use the regex-lib by Henry Spencer,
1719	ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/C/spencer/regex.shar.gz
1720	Make sure, your compiler reads regex.h from the distribution,
1721	not from /usr/include, otherwise sendmail will dump a core.
1722
1723Fedora Core 5, 64 bit version
1724	If the ld stage fails with undefined functions like
1725	__res_querydomain, __dn_expand
1726	then add these lines to devtools/Site/site.config.m4
1727
1728	APPENDDEF(`confLIBDIRS', `-L/usr/lib64')
1729	APPENDDEF(`confINCDIRS', `-I/usr/include/bind9')
1730
1731	and rebuild (sh ./Build -c).
1732
1733	Problem noted by Daniel Krones, solution suggested by
1734	Anthony Howe.
1735
1736+--------------+
1737| MANUAL PAGES |
1738+--------------+
1739
1740The manual pages have been written against the -man macros, and
1741should format correctly with any reasonable *roff.
1742
1743
1744+-----------------+
1745| DEBUGGING HOOKS |
1746+-----------------+
1747
1748As of 8.6.5, sendmail daemons will catch a SIGUSR1 signal and log
1749some debugging output (logged at LOG_DEBUG severity).  The
1750information dumped is:
1751
1752 * The value of the $j macro.
1753 * A warning if $j is not in the set $=w.
1754 * A list of the open file descriptors.
1755 * The contents of the connection cache.
1756 * If ruleset 89 is defined, it is evaluated and the results printed.
1757
1758This allows you to get information regarding the runtime state of the
1759daemon on the fly.  This should not be done too frequently, since
1760the process of rewriting may lose memory which will not be recovered.
1761Also, ruleset 89 may call non-reentrant routines, so there is a small
1762non-zero probability that this will cause other problems.  It is
1763really only for debugging serious problems.
1764
1765A typical formulation of ruleset 89 would be:
1766
1767	R$*		$@ $>0 some test address
1768
1769
1770+-----------------------------+
1771| DESCRIPTION OF SOURCE FILES |
1772+-----------------------------+
1773
1774The following list describes the files in this directory:
1775
1776Build		Shell script for building sendmail.
1777Makefile	A convenience for calling ./Build.
1778Makefile.m4	A template for constructing a makefile based on the
1779		information in the devtools directory.
1780README		This file.
1781TRACEFLAGS	My own personal list of the trace flags -- not guaranteed
1782		to be particularly up to date.
1783alias.c		Does name aliasing in all forms.
1784aliases.5	Man page describing the format of the aliases file.
1785arpadate.c	A subroutine which creates ARPANET standard dates.
1786bf.c		Routines to implement memory-buffered file system using
1787		hooks provided by libsm now (formerly Torek stdio library).
1788bf.h		Buffered file I/O function declarations and
1789		data structure and function declarations for bf.c.
1790collect.c	The routine that actually reads the mail into a temp
1791		file.  It also does a certain amount of parsing of
1792		the header, etc.
1793conf.c		The configuration file.  This contains information
1794		that is presumed to be quite static and non-
1795		controversial, or code compiled in for efficiency
1796		reasons.  Most of the configuration is in sendmail.cf.
1797conf.h		Configuration that must be known everywhere.
1798control.c	Routines to implement control socket.
1799convtime.c	A routine to sanely process times.
1800daemon.c	Routines to implement daemon mode.
1801deliver.c	Routines to deliver mail.
1802domain.c	Routines that interface with DNS (the Domain Name
1803		System).
1804envelope.c	Routines to manipulate the envelope structure.
1805err.c		Routines to print error messages.
1806headers.c	Routines to process message headers.
1807helpfile	An example helpfile for the SMTP HELP command and -bt mode.
1808macro.c		The macro expander.  This is used internally to
1809		insert information from the configuration file.
1810mailq.1		Man page for the mailq command.
1811main.c		The main routine to sendmail.  This file also
1812		contains some miscellaneous routines.
1813makesendmail	A convenience for calling ./Build.
1814map.c		Support for database maps.
1815mci.c		Routines that handle mail connection information caching.
1816milter.c	MTA portions of the mail filter API.
1817mime.c		MIME conversion routines.
1818newaliases.1	Man page for the newaliases command.
1819parseaddr.c	The routines which do address parsing.
1820queue.c		Routines to implement message queueing.
1821readcf.c	The routine that reads the configuration file and
1822		translates it to internal form.
1823recipient.c	Routines that manipulate the recipient list.
1824sasl.c		Routines to interact with Cyrys-SASL.
1825savemail.c	Routines which save the letter on processing errors.
1826sendmail.8	Man page for the sendmail command.
1827sendmail.h	Main header file for sendmail.
1828sfsasl.c	I/O interface between SASL/TLS and the MTA.
1829sfsasl.h	Header file for sfsasl.c.
1830shmticklib.c	Routines for shared memory counters.
1831sm_resolve.c	Routines for DNS lookups (for DNS map type).
1832sm_resolve.h	Header file for sm_resolve.c.
1833srvrsmtp.c	Routines to implement server SMTP.
1834stab.c		Routines to manage the symbol table.
1835stats.c		Routines to collect and post the statistics.
1836statusd_shm.h	Data structure and function declarations for shmticklib.c.
1837sysexits.c	List of error messages associated with error codes
1838		in sysexits.h.
1839sysexits.h	List of error codes for systems that lack their own.
1840timers.c	Routines to provide microtimers.
1841timers.h	Data structure and function declarations for timers.h.
1842tls.c		Routines for TLS.
1843trace.c		The trace package.  These routines allow setting and
1844		testing of trace flags with a high granularity.
1845udb.c		The user database interface module.
1846usersmtp.c	Routines to implement user SMTP.
1847util.c		Some general purpose routines used by sendmail.
1848version.c	The version number and information about this
1849		version of sendmail.
1850
1851(Version $Revision: 8.393 $, last update $Date: 2013/11/22 20:51:54 $ )
1852