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                      2:                        S E N D M A I L
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                      4: Presumably by the time you get to this READ_ME file, you will have
                      5: already read the tape in, or will have received this distribution as
                      6: part of 4.2bsd.  If you do not yet have the distribution online, read
                      7: the tape in now -- you will need about one megabyte to hold the tape.
                      8: 
                      9: The first thing you should look at is the documentation.  The two
                     10: critical documents are "doc/intro.me" and "doc/op.me".  Read both
                     11: of these before proceeding with your installation.  If you have read
                     12: these before, you should still read through the second one again
                     13: anyhow, since the installation procedures change occasionally.
                     14: 
                     15: A brief tour:
                     16:        FILES     A list of the files on the tape.
                     17:        Makefile  A Makefile that will do a vanilla install for you.
                     18:        adb       A set of adb(1) scripts for printing out certain
                     19:                  sendmail data structures.
                     20:        adm       Administrativia.
                     21:        aux       Files that represent programs that are not really
                     22:                  "part" of sendmail, or old versions of some files
                     23:                  in src for use by people on other system types.
                     24:        cf        The configuration files for Berkeley, plus a few
                     25:                  prototype configurations for basic installation
                     26:                  types.
                     27:        doc       The documentation.
                     28:        include   The include files used by more than just the sendmail
                     29:                  program itself.
                     30:        lib       Library routines used by sendmail, but not really
                     31:                  "part" of sendmail itself; these might be candidates
                     32:                  for libc.a.
                     33:        md        Some m4 files used to isolate machine dependencies.
                     34:        src       The source for the sendmail program itself.
                     35:        test      Some files used for testing -- mostly these are
                     36:                  shell files intended as the targets for aliasing.
                     37: 
                     38: The following are the known major problems and their Problem Report
                     39: number:
                     40: 
                     41: 012, 043       Names of files and programs cannot have upper case letters
                     42:                in them -- these get mapped to lower case due to the
                     43:                case mapping feature.
                     44: 178            Because of the different syntaxes used in envelopes versus
                     45:                headers, we will occasionally allow syntactically incorrect
                     46:                headers go out.
                     47: 226            Quote interpretation may be incorrect -- this is not well
                     48:                defined in the protocols.
                     49: 
                     50: Due to my present circumstances, I am unable to provide a formal
                     51: level of support for this system.  However, I will make whatever
                     52: attempt I can to answer a reasonable number of questions.  Since
                     53: the company I am working for is not working in this area, and has
                     54: indulged me tremendously in letting me work on this at all, I regret
                     55: that I am unable to accept phone calls.  I can be contacted as:
                     56: 
                     57:                OLD                     NEW
                     58:     Arpanet:   eric@Berkeley           [email protected]
                     59:     UUCP:      ucbvax!eric             [email protected]
                     60: 
                     61: Eric Allman
                     62: Britton-Lee, Inc.
                     63: 
                     64: @(#)READ_ME    4.1             7/25/83

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