The definitive reference for version 8 sendmail (specifically, version 8.8). If you can have only one book on the subject of sendmail, this one is it.
Bryan provides his consulting to the world in the form of his book, unless you're willing to compensate him for his services as well. Like Eric, you should make sure you've exhausted all other courses of action before you spend any of his valuable time.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-222-0
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-55558-127-7
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: Sep 9, 1996; fixed typo
TITLE:: Sendmail: Theory and Practice
AUTHOR:: Avolio, Frederick M.
AUTHOR:: Vixie, Paul A.
CONTACT:: Fred Avolio <fma@al.org>, Paul Vixie <vix@al.org>
Digital Press
225 Wildwood Avenue
Woburn, MA 01801, USA
Ordering Info: voice 1 800 366 2665
fax 1 800 446 6520
DATE:: 1994
PAGES:: 262
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) by 1995 Butterworth-Heinemann
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.vix.com/vix/smtap/
ABSTRACT::
Centers more on IDA sendmail (at least partly because version 8 didn't exist when they began the book). Written more like a college Sophomore or Junior level textbook.
While you'll probably never let the Costales book out of your grubby little hands (especially if you do much work with version 8 sendmail), this is a book you'll probably read once or maybe twice, learn some very valuable things, but then likely put on a shelf and not read or reference again (unless you have to write up a bibliographic entry for it). Makes a better introduction to sendmail for management types, especially if you don't want them getting their hands on too much "dangerous" technical information. Also a *lot* smaller and less imposing.
If possible, I recommend getting both, but if you can only get one, get Costales unless you're going to be working exclusively with IDA sendmail, in which case Avolio & Vixie will probably be more useful.
Note that Paul Vixie is extremely busy working on further development of BIND, the Internet de facto standard program for serving the DNS, upon which all Internet services depend, mail being only one of them. Like Eric and Bryan, he's also very busy. Unless you're willing to compensate him for his services, please let him get real work done.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-55558-127-7
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-13-151051-7
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: May 23, 1996; Updated abstract.
TITLE:: Unix System Administration Handbook, Second Edition
AUTHOR:: Nemeth, Evi
AUTHOR:: Snyder, Garth
AUTHOR:: Seebass, Scott
AUTHOR:: Hein, Trent R.
CONTACT:: <sa-book@admin.com>
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458
DATE:: January, 1995
PAGES:: 780
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.admin.com/
ABSTRACT::
Still the best hands-on Unix System Administration book around. Covers far more than just sendmail, but the sixty-four pages (pages 455-518 in the third printing) it does devote are very well written and quite useful. Also provides a version of Rob Kolstad's checksendmail script on the accompanying CD-ROM.
Note that Eric Allman and Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote the Foreword for the Second Edition. This should give you at least an inkling as to how essential this book is, even for experienced Unix administrators.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-13-151051-7
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-201-58629=0
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; Changed ID format to include ISBN,
moved URL to NOTES field from OTHER_ACCESS field,
also updated ABSTRACT
REVISION:: March 29, 1996; Updated ID, PAGES, COPYRIGHT, and ABSTRACT
TITLE:: Practical Internetworking With TCP/IP and UNIX
AUTHOR:: Carl-Mitchell, Smoot
AUTHOR:: Quarterman, John S.
CONTACT:: <tic@tic.com>
Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Computer Science & Engineering Division
One Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
USA
Orders: voice://800-822-6339 (USA)
fax://617-942-1117
DATE:: 1993
PAGES:: 476
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1993 by Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company, Inc.
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See URL:http://heg-school.aw.com/cseng/authors/mitchell/
practical/practical.html
ABSTRACT::
Devotes 50 pages (most of chapter 8) to discussion of sendmail. As far as TCP/IP networking books go that also happen to discuss sendmail, it seems well-written and clear (better than I recall Hunt's book being), but rather dated in the face of books devoted to the topic and all the recent development activity in the sendmail community. Forget about the references, though. The newest sendmail-related reference listed is dated 1983, ten years before the date on this book and most certainly wildly out-of-date now.
There are other books written on the subject of Internetworking with TCP/IP (most notably Comer), but this particular book seems to have a unique mix of theory (if perhaps a bit dated) and practical advice. Other books tend to have lots of one or the other, or split their theory and nitty-gritty details into separate books in a series (like Comer).
Assuming that an update will be coming out soon, it probably deserves a place on the shelf of most System or Network Administrators, right next to _Internetworking with TCP/IP_ by Comer, _Managing Internet Information Services_ by Liu, et. al., _DNS and BIND_ by Albitz and Liu, _Unix System Administration_ by Nemeth, et. al., and last, but certainly not least, _sendmail_ by Costales. However, it deserves this place more because of the non-sendmail related material, as opposed to what sendmail-related material there is.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-201-58629-0
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-82-X
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; updated URL in NOTES section
TITLE:: TCP/IP Network Administration
AUTHOR:: Hunt, Craig
CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Sebastapol, CA 95472
Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries)
800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders)
707-829-0515 (local/overseas)
DATE:: August, 1992
PAGES:: 502
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/catalog/tcp/
ABSTRACT::
The book I learned sendmail from when there was no other book in print that even mentioned the name.
Here primarily for historical purposes, especially with respect to the sending of Internet mail and the DNS. Some of the other TCP/IP networking stuff is relevant, but this book is getting more and more dated as time goes by.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/0-937175-82-X
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-236-0
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; Updated entire entry for 2nd Ed.
TITLE:: DNS and BIND
AUTHOR:: Albitz, Paul
AUTHOR:: Liu, Cricket
CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries)
800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders)
707-829-0515 (local/overseas)
DATE:: January, 1997
PAGES:: 418
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1997 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights
reserved.
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/catalog/dns2/
ABSTRACT::
As definitive as Costales is on sendmail, this book is on the subject of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the most common server software for the DNS, namely BIND.
The second edition has been updated to reflect the changes in BIND up through version 4.9.4, but even the first edition still stands the test of time as the one book *every* DNS/Domain Administrator should have on their shelf. The second edition is just that much better.
Since the sending of Internet mail is so very heavily dependant on the DNS, it obviously also belongs on the shelf of any Postmaster or System Administrator whose site does Internet email. That means virtually every administrator of every site on the Internet.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-236-0
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-153-4
ENTRY:: April 8, 1997
TYPE:: Reference book, hardcopy
TITLE:: Using & Managing UUCP
AUTHOR:: Ravin, Ed
AUTHOR:: O'Reilly, Tim
AUTHOR:: Dougherty, Dale
AUTHOR:: Todino, Grace
CONTACT:: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Order by phone: 800-998-9938 (US/Canada inquiries)
800-889-8969 (US/Canada credit card orders)
707-829-0515 (local/overseas)
DATE:: September, 1996
PAGES:: 424
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: See: URL:http://www.ora.com/catalog/umuucp/
ABSTRACT::
Replaces _Managing UUCP and Usenet_ by Todino and O'Reilly as the definitive book for using, installing, and managing UUCP.
The general assumption with version 8 sendmail is that virtually no one uses UUCP to send email anymore, but if that assumption isn't true for you, then you probably need this book.
END:: sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-153-4
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/10
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: comp.mail.sendmail FAQ Support Page
AUTHOR:: Knowles, Brad
CONTACT:: Brad Knowles <brad@etext.org>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.his.com/~brad/sendmail/
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Support Page for this FAQ.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/10
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/17
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: comp.mail.sendmail Most Frequently Asked Questions Support Page
AUTHOR:: Assman, Claus
CONTACT:: Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/english.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Most Frequently Asked Questions on comp.mail.sendmail and their answers. Also has some links to a few other resources.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/17
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/resources/22
ENTRY:: November 24, 1996
TITLE:: IICONS Sendmail Resources
AUTHOR:: Caloca, Paul
CONTACT:: Paul Caloca <pcaloca@iicons.com>
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1996 Paul Caloca. All Rights Reserved.
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.iicons.com/sendmail/index.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Provides information on how to compile Sendmail and the NEWDB db.1.85 for Solaris 2. Also has a section on which Sun patches update Solaris 2 to BIND 4.9.3.
Has pointers to some non-Sun/Solaris sendmail resources, especially including CERT Advisories related to sendmail.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/22
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/12
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: Internet Mail Consortium web site
CORP-AUTHOR:: Internet Mail Consortium
CONTACT:: <info@imc.org>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.imc.org/
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
If it has to do with Internet email, you'll probably find it here or a link to it from here.
They have or have information on email-related Usenet FAQs, RFCs, Internet Drafts (documents that are in the process of becoming RFCs), IETF Working Groups, security standards, and are running a few email-related mailing lists.
Tends to be focussed on the standards issues.
If you care about Internet email, you should make it your duty in life to check this site frequently.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/12
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/13
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: August 20, 1996; Updated URL.
TITLE:: Email References
AUTHOR:: Wohler, Bill
CONTACT:: Bill Wohler <wohler@worldtalk.com>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.worldtalk.com/html/msg_resources/email_ref.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
The most exhaustive index site I know of for Internet email related documents outside of the Internet Mail Consortium.
Also has pointers to other organizations that relate to Internet email, such as the Electronic Messaging Association and the European Electronic Messaging Association.
Tends to be focussed on the server and standards issues.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/13
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/14
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: June 28, 1996; Added acronym for SMTPRD
TITLE:: SMTP Resources Directory (SMTPRD)
AUTHOR:: Salamon, Andras
AUTHOR:: Knowles, Brad
CONTACT:: Andras Salamon <smtprd@dns.net>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.dns.net/smtprd/
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Another good index site, but still very much in the early phases of gestation. Based very heavily on the DNS Resources Directory, also by Andras Salamon.
A well-rounded site, for the amount of material it covers so far.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/14
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/index/15
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online general Internet email index
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: E-Mail Web Resources
AUTHOR:: Wall, Matt
CONTACT:: Matt Wall <wall+@cmu.edu>
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/email/email.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Another good index site, tends to be more focussed on client side and LAN email packages. Also lists some email services, which no one else that I've seen appears to have taken the time to catalog.
Excellent side-by-side feature comparison of various MUAs and their compliance with various Internet protocols.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/index/15
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/9
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
REVISION:: August 29, 1998; updated URL.
TITLE:: Sendmail V8: A (Smoother) Engine Powers Network Email
AUTHOR:: Reich, Richard
CONTACT:: Richard Reich <richard@reich.com>
DATE:: February 8, 1996
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/
008/008.txt.html
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: UnixWorld Online: Tutorial: Article No. 008
ABSTRACT::
Good technical introduction. Some useful references. Notably does not reference this FAQ as a place to get more information.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/article/9
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/16
ENTRY:: March 23, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: Sendmail -- Care and Feeding
AUTHOR:: Quinton, Reg
CONTACT:: Reg Quinton <reggers@julian.uwo.ca>
Computing and Communications Services
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6A 5B7
Canada
DATE:: March 24, 1992
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mail/sendmail/uwo-course/
sendmail.txt.Z
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: Postscript version also available. See ftp://ftp.sterling.com/
mail/sendmail/uwo-course/sendmail.ps.Z
ABSTRACT::
Dated. Only here until I find better.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/16
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/tutorial/21
ENTRY:: March 27, 1996
TYPE:: Online sendmail tutorial
REVISION:: August 29, 1998; updated URL.
TITLE:: Explosion in a Punctuation Factory
AUTHOR:: Bryan Costales
CONTACT:: Becca Thomas <editor@unixworld.com>
DATE:: January 1994
COPYRIGHT:: Copyright (c) 1995 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/
01/01.txt.html
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Good introduction on how sendmail re-write rules work.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/article/21
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/18
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: DejaNews
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.dejanews.com
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: Archives/indexes only Usenet news.
ABSTRACT::
The first, and still most focussed, Usenet news archive/index site. Others archive/index news as well as other things, but none that I've seen do it better.
Go to "Power Search" then "Query Filter" if you wish to restrict the newsgroups you search on to something like just comp.mail.sendmail and not all newsgroups.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/18
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/19
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive
REVISION:: March 27, 1996; moved URL from RETRIEVAL field to
OTHER_ACCESS field.
TITLE:: AltaVista
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.altavista.digital.com
LANGUAGE:: English
NOTES:: Archives/indexes Usenet news and World-wide web pages.
ABSTRACT::
One of the leading indexes of world-wide web pages, and their archive/index of Usenet news is obviously secondary.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/19
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/20
ENTRY:: March 25, 1996
TYPE:: Online Usenet newgroup archive
REVISION:: April 8, 1997; Additional information based on experience
TITLE:: InReference
OTHER_ACCESS:: URL:http://www.reference.com
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::
Had promise to be the best Usenet news/publicly accessible mailing list index/archive site in the world. The best minds that were working on the project have since left, and the difference is visible. You'll probably be happier with DejaNews instead.
END:: sendmail-faq//online/archive/20
Special thanks to:
| Eric Allman | The core of the material here comes from his FAQ for version 8.6.9 sendmail. I couldn't even have gotten started were it not for him. And if he hadn't written sendmail, there obviously wouldn't even be a FAQ. Heck, there might not even be an Internet. |
| Paul Southworth | Provides FAQ posting services, useful comments on various sections, and the mailclient-faq. I couldn't have kept doing this were it not for his help. |
| Ed Ravin | Virtually all the material regarding the use of sendmail on AIX is his, and most of it has been carried over verbatim. |
Thanks also to:
Neil Hoggarth, Andras Salamon, Johan Svensson, Christopher X. Candreva, Bill Wohler, Matthew Wall, Henry W. Farkas, Claus Assmann, Curt Sampson, Rebecca Lasher, Jim Davis, David Keegel, Betty Lee, Alain Durand, Walter Schweizer, Christophe Wolfhugel, Al Gilman, Valdis Kletnieks, John Gardiner Myers, Paul DuBois, Adam Bentley, Dave Sill, Dave Wreski, Paul Caloca, Eamonn Coleman, Michael Fuhr, Betty Lee, Derrell Lipman, Era Eriksson, Richard Troxel, and the readers and posters of comp.mail.sendmail.