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sendmail 8.13 Companion
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If you had a list of the words used to describe sendmail, they'd probably include
reliable, flexible, configurable, complex, monolithic, and daunting. But you're
not likely to find the word easy. Even seasoned sendmail pros are sometimes frustrated
by the intricacies of sendmail's configuration files. With a little determination
and the help of a good reference book, like sendmail, Third Edition, you can master
this demanding program. But when there's a significant point release, like sendmail
V8.13, where do you turn?
An excellent companion to our popular sendmail, Third Edition, the sendmail
8.13 Companion provides a timely way to document the improvements in V8.13 in
parallel with its release. The book highlights the important changes in the
latest update to sendmail, pointing out not just what is handy or nice to have,
but what's critical in getting the best behavior from sendmail. This is especially
important now that spam is on the rise, and because mobile technology requires
roving laptops to use encrypted connections.
Not surprisingly, many of the changes and additions to V8.13 have been driven
by the ongoing fight against spam. Anyone concerned about spam--and who isn't?--will
benefit greatly by upgrading to V8.13 sendmail. Among its many enhancements,
V8.13 includes new routines that support the SPF sending site authentication
standard (in the Milter library), simultaneous connection control, high connection
rate control, and finer tuning of SASL parameters. The additions to the Milter
library, alone, make upgrading worthwhile, but sendmail's connection control
makes it a no-brainer. The key to understanding them is the sendmail 8.13 Companion.
The book is divided into twenty-five chapters that parallel the chapters in
the third edition of the sendmail book. For instance, if you're interested in
Options configuration (Chapter 24 in sendmail), you'll turn to Chapter 24 in
your companion volume to find out what's new in V8.13.
For a simple dot release (8.12 to 8.13), V8.13 sendmail has added more features,
options, and fundamental changes than any other single dot release has included.
If you need to set up or manage sendmail, you'll want this companion volume
close at hand. Even if you aren't ready to upgrade to V8.13, you'll find the
key to understanding them is the sendmail 8.13 Companion a useful guide to understanding
and staying current with the latest changes in sendmail.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Release Notes
2. Build and Install sendmail
3. Tune sendmail with Compile-Time Macros
4. Configure sendmail.cf with m4
5. Companion Programs
6. Tune Performance
7. Handle Spam and Filter with Milter
8. Test Rule Sets with -bt
9. DNS and sendmail
10. Maintain Security with sendmail
11. Manage the Queue
12. Maintain Aliases
13. Mailing Lists and ~/.forward
14. Signals, Transactions, and Syslog
15. The sendmail Command Line
16. Debug sendmail with -d
17. Configuration File Overview
18. The R (Rules) Configuration Command
19. The S (Rule Sets) Configuration Command
20. The M (Mail Delivery Agent) Configuration Command
21. The D (Define a Macro) Configuration Command
22. The C and F (Class Macro) Configuration Commands
23. The K (Database-Map) Configuration Command
24. The O (Options) Configuration Command
25. The H (Headers) Configuration Command
Index
About the Authors
Bryan Costales is CTO with SL3D, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. He
has been active in system administration for over fifteen years and has been
writing articles and books about computer software for over twenty years. His
most notable books are C from A to Z (Prentice Hall), Unix Communications (Howard
Sams), and, of course, sendmail (O'Reilly & Associates).
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