On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:12:33 EST, "Margaret J. Brandt" <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> I am running Sendmail 8.8.5.  Does anyone have a really good sendmail =
> book to recommend?  It such a complicated process.

Hmm.. you asked for a book.. but I'm going to give you a bit more. ;)

Recommendations:

1a) Upgrade to Sendmail 8.10.0 if at all feasible - there's been a lot
of fixes since 8.8.5 (which is over 3 years old now).  A number of
them are security fixes, and there's a lot of anti-spam features now.
8.10.1 is in very late beta-test, but is mostly minor bugfixes apart
from a potentially nasty AIX-specific security problem I tripped over.

1b) If you aren't using a .mc file to generate your .cf files, start
doing so - it makes life a *lot* simpler.  The .mc file I use for
our Listserv hub is only 41 lines long, and it's *very* heavily
tweaked.

2) Get a copy of the O'Reilly book on Sendmail.  Bryan Costales wrote
it with a LOT of cooperation from the Sendmail crew (and incidentally,
Bryan flushed out a *lot* of bugs when he tested *everything* he put
in the book).

3) I've put a lot of how-to tuning info for Listserv and Sendmail
on http://black-ice.cc.vt.edu/~valdis/sendmail.html  - I do admit
I've not updated it since Sendmail 8.9.1, and it *could* stand some
editing for the 8.10-specific features.

4) Useful websites:
   a) www.sendmail.com - the commercial side of the fence
   b) www.sendmail.org - the Open Source side of the fence
   c) www.sendmail.net - recently started, a "friends of sendmail" site.

5) If none of these help, post to the comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup.
I know for a fact that at least 3 or 4 of the developers make sure that
all reasonable queries get answered, and I think I've seen almost
everybody mentioned in the Sendmail 'RELEASE_NOTES' post there at
least once in a while.

6) If you're *still* stuck, give me a yell and I'll see if I can figure
out where steps 1-5 failed you. ;)

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech