Sendmail/iX for HP 3000 MPE
http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/sendmailix.html
The mail transport agent that comes bundled with HPUX is now available for MPE
Last updated June 19, 1998 @ 1700 UTC
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What's New
* June 19, 1998
o Updated to 8.9.0, a production release containing many new
exciting anti-spam features.
o POSIX environment variables are now passed properly from parent
to child.
o Submitted my MPE porting diffs to the official sendmail
developers for preliminary review.
* April 4, 1998
o Because my public release of 8.9.0Beta5 violated the beta
copyright agreement, I have withdrawn that version. Until I
release the production version of 8.9.0, please download
sendmail-8.8.8-mpe.tar.Z instead.
* April 1, 1998
o Updated to 8.9.0Beta5. Note that Beta5 is a production release
candidate; I'm running the Unix version of Beta5 as the mail
server for @cccd.edu without any problems. Significant new
features:
+ Makefiles are now derived from m4 macros.
+ Sendmail is much more paranoid about filesystem security,
and performs very rigorous security checking before any file
is opened. This checking is SO rigorous that your existing
configuration may break; if so, use the DontBlameSendmail
configuration option to disable some of these security
checks if you cannot modify your existing file/directory
layout. Note that MPE requires certain DontBlameSendmail
parameters so that almost all files can reside in the
SENDMAIL account.
+ Exciting new anti-spam functionality that includes (partial
list):
+ Relaying disabled by default.
+ Unresolvable From: domains rejected by default.
+ Unqualified senders (i.e. a user but no hostname)
rejected by default.
+ Optional use of the Realtime Blackhole List to reject
mail from known spam networks (see http://maps.vix.com/
for details)
o Because of the new rigorous security checking, the sendmail
configuration file /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.cf had to be moved
to /etc/sendmail.cf.
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Welcome
This is the official home page for the HP 3000 MPE port of the Sendmail
mail transport agent from http://www.sendmail.org/ (a commercial version of
sendmail is available from http://www.sendmail.com/). This distribution
also contains a port of the Majordomo mailing list system from
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/. Check here for the latest news,
implemented functionality, known bugs, to-do list, etc. Status reports
about major milestones will also be posted to the HP3000-L mailing list and
its associated gatewayed newsgroup comp.sys.hp.mpe.
I'm doing this port because I need to be able to send reliable e-mail from
batch jobs and Apache web server CGI applications. I chose Sendmail because
it's free, and also because it's what I run under HPUX for the Coast
Community College District.
Please send your comments, questions, and bug reports directly to me, Mark
Bixby, by e-mailing to [log in to unmask] Or just post them to HP3000-L. You
can also telephone me at +1 714 438-4647 Monday-Friday 0815-1745 PDT
(1515-0045 UTC).
The platform I'm using to do this port is an HP 3000 969KS200 running
MPE/iX 5.5 and using the gcc 2.8 C compiler from the Interex Freeware tape.
The combined porting wisdom from all of my ports can be found in my MPE/iX
Porting Guide.
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What is Sendmail?
Sendmail is a mail transport agent (MTA) that does two things:
* It accepts fully formatted e-mail messages from local host system
users, queues the messages, and then delivers the messages to either
local users or remote users.
* It listens on TCP port 25 for incoming SMTP messages from remote
systems, and delivers these messages to local host system users by
appending the message text to the user's mailbox file.
Sendmail IS NOT a mail user agent (MUA) and does not have the ability to
compose or read e-mail. The only MUA that comes bundled with MPE at the
current time is /bin/mailx (aka MAILX.HPBIN.SYS). Mailx is not fancy, but
offers enough functionality to be useful in many situations such as sending
e-mail from batch jobs.
Sendmail IS NOT a POP3 server that will enable network clients such as
Netscape Communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer to access your
Sendmail/iX mailboxes. However, a port of Qualcomm's QPopper is available
from ftp://ftp.nha.co.za/hp3000/pop3/ if you want to provide this type of
access.
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System Requirements
* Requires MPE/iX 5.5 or later.
* Requires Syslog/iX from http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/syslogix.html.
* If you only want to run the pre-compiled Sendmail/iX binaries, you
must have one or more Domain Name Servers configured in
/etc/resolv.conf. If you want to compile the Sendmail/iX sources, you
must obtain and install BIND/iX from
http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/bindix.html (but note that running NAMED is
not required -- Sendmail/iX just needs libbind.a and the related
include files).
* If you want to run Majordomo/iX, you must obtain and install Perl/iX
from http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/perlix.html.
.....gory details omitted; please see the web page for full info.....
--
Mark Bixby E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Coast Community College Dist. Web: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/
District Information Services 1370 Adams Ave, Costa Mesa, CA, USA 92626-5429
Technical Support Voice: +1 714 438-4647
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
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