[...]... the third edition to make this fourth edition much more accurate This edition of the sendmail book assumes you are using V8.14, the current version of the sendmail program It follows the same general format as earlier editions, but we realize this might not be the most convenient arrangement for readers who are primarily interested in what has changed since the last edition To help minimize this problem,... options, and tightening security In 1998, V8.9 was released, continuing the direction started by V8.8 In 1999, Sendmail, Inc., was founded in Emeryville, California Sendmail, Inc., took over maintenance and development of the open source version of sendmail, and began work on a commercial version Sendmail, Inc., has the web site: http://www.sendmail.com and is also one of the sponsors of the open source... turn out to be problems with one of these other areas rather than with sendmail The DNS is well documented in the book DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu (O’Reilly) The protocols used to communicate over the Internet are well documented in the book TCP/IP Network Administration, Third Edition by Craig Hunt (O’Reilly) Finally, many mail problems can be solved only by the system... edition of sendmail, is the release of version 8.14 of the sendmail program Since the release of the third edition, V8.13 and V8.14 sendmail have been released Each sendmail release has shown marked improvements over earlier releases and, together, they call for a full update of this book In addition to folding the new V8.14 information into this book, we have fixed all the errata in the third edition. .. this book into your product’s documentation does require permission We appreciate, but do not require, attribution An attribution usually includes the title, author, publisher, and ISBN For example: sendmail, by Bryan Costales et al Copyright 2008 Bryan Costales et al., 978-0-596-51029-9.” Additional Sources of Information The source for the sendmail program comes with a document written by the sendmail... Guide (located in doc/ op in the source distribution) provides installation instructions and a succinct description of the configuration file Many vendors also provide online manuals which might reveal vendor-specific customizations not documented in this book Also, if you have the source, see the RELEASE_NOTES file and all the */README files Preface This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition Copyright... Since Edition 3 1239 C The checkcompat( ) Function 1248 Bibliography 1253 Index 1255 xiv | Table of Contents Preface Changes Since the Previous Edition The primary reason for this book, the fourth edition. .. Greg Shapiro for his careful review of the new chapter about Milters Bruce Mah and Sean Brennan were guinea pigs for the first and second editions, respectively Chris Fedde was guinea pig for the third edition Scott Palmer bravely functioned as guinea pig for the fourth edition They set up and ran sendmail based on early drafts and thereby uncovered omissions and mistakes that required correction Gavin... comp.mail.sendmail news group —Bryan Costales xxiv | Preface This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition Copyright © 2007 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc All rights reserved Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Some Basics We began previous editions of this book with a very long tutorial aimed at those new to sendmail In this edition, however, much of that tutorial has been folded into the chapters that follow, and we present,... officially adopted most of the good features from IDA, KJS, Sun, and HP’s sendmail, and kept abreast of the latest standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) In 1996, Eric began work on V8.8 sendmail This release continued the * With one long gap between 1982 and 1990 Preface | This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition Copyright © 2007 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc All rights reserved . History: November 1993: First Edition. January 1997: Second Edition. December 2002: Third Edition. October 2007: Fourth Edition. Nutshell Handbook, the. this book, the fourth edition of sendmail, is the release of ver- sion 8.14 of the sendmail program. Since the release of the third edition, V8.13 and V8.14