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<TITLE>Introduction to Sendmail+IDA</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node220.html">Configuration Files - Overview</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node218.html">Sendmail+IDA</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node218.html">Sendmail+IDA</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0017100000">Introduction to Sendmail+IDA</A></H1>
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It's been said that you aren't a <em>real</em> Unix system administrator until
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you've edited a sendmail.cf file. It's also been said that you're
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crazy if you've attempted to do so twice:-)
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Sendmail is an incredibly powerful program. It's also incredibly difficult
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to learn and understand for most people. Any program whose definitive
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reference (<em>Sendmail</em>, published by O'Reilly and Associates) is 792 pages
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long quite justifiably scares most people off.
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Sendmail+IDA is different. It removes the need to edit the always cryptic
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sendmail.cf file and allows the administrator to define the
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site-specific routing and addressing configuration through relatively easy to
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understand support files called <em>tables</em>. Switching to sendmail+IDA can
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save you many hours of work and stress.
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Compared to the other major mail transport agents, there is probably nothing
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that can't be done faster and simpler with sendmail+IDA. Typical things that
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are needed to run a normal UUCP or Internet site become simple to accomplish.
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Configurations that normally are extremely difficult are simple to create and
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maintain.
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At this writing, the current version of sendmail5.67b+IDA1.5 is
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available via anonymous FTP from vixen.cso.uiuc.edu. It compiles
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without any patching required under .
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All the configuration files required to get sendmail+IDA sources to compile,
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install, and run under are included in newspak-2.2.tar.gz
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which is available via anonymous FTP on sunsite.unc.edu in the
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directory /pub/Linux/system/Mail.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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