svn commit: r44803 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail
Dru Lavigne
dru at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 9 20:05:34 UTC 2014
Author: dru
Date: Fri May 9 20:05:33 2014
New Revision: 44803
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44803
Log:
Finish initial editorial review of Sendmail Configuration Files.
Comment out local-host-names for now until instructions for building its
needed .mc feature are added.
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml Fri May 9 18:42:36 2014 (r44802)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml Fri May 9 20:05:33 2014 (r44803)
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ FreeBSD.org mail is handled by 10 mx1.Fr
right side of the table.</para>
<para>Whenever this file is updated, update its database and
- restart <application>Sendmail</application>:</para>
+ restart <application>Sendmail</application>:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>service sendmail restart</userinput></screen>
@@ -393,47 +393,49 @@ FreeBSD.org mail is handled by 10 mx1.Fr
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename></term>
<listitem>
- <para>This database contains a list of virtual mailboxes that
- are expanded to other user(s), files, programs, or other
- aliases. Here are a few examples to illustrate the
+ <para>This database file contains a list of virtual mailboxes that
+ are expanded to users, files, programs, or other
+ aliases. Here are a few entries to illustrate the
file format:</para>
- <example>
- <title>Mail Aliases</title>
-
<programlisting>root: localuser
ftp-bugs: joe,eric,paul
bit.bucket: /dev/null
procmail: "|/usr/local/bin/procmail"</programlisting>
- </example>
<para>The mailbox name on the left side of the colon is expanded
to the target(s) on the right. The first entry expands the
- mailbox <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> to the
- mailbox <systemitem class="username">localuser</systemitem>,
- which is then looked up again in the
- <filename>aliases</filename> database. If no match is found,
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> mailbox to the
+ <systemitem class="username">localuser</systemitem> mailbox,
+ which is then looked up in the
+ <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename> database. If no match is found,
the message is delivered to <systemitem
class="username">localuser</systemitem>. The second entry
- shows a mail list. Mail to the mailbox <systemitem
+ shows a mail list. Mail to <systemitem
class="username">ftp-bugs</systemitem> is expanded to the
three local mailboxes <systemitem
class="username">joe</systemitem>, <systemitem
class="username">eric</systemitem>, and <systemitem
class="username">paul</systemitem>. A remote mailbox could
- be specified as <email>user at example.com</email>. The third
+ be specified as <replaceable>user at example.com</replaceable>. The third
entry shows how to write mail to a file, in this case
<filename>/dev/null</filename>. The last entry demonstrates
how to send mail to a program,
<filename>/usr/local/bin/procmail</filename>, through a &unix;
- pipe.</para>
+ pipe. Refer to &man.aliases.5; for more information about the
+ format of this file.</para>
- <para>Whenever this file is updated, run <command>make</command>
- in <filename>/etc/mail/</filename> to update the
+ <para>Whenever this file is updated, run <command>newaliases</command>
+ to update and initialize the aliases
database.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+<!--
+This section needs to explain that this feature is for hosts with
+alternate names, such as a host that MXs for a dynamic set of other
+hosts.
+It won't work unless freebsd.mc is built with FEATURE(`use_cw_file'),
+meaning it needs a section to refer to on how to make mc files.
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc/mail/local-host-names</filename></term>
<listitem>
@@ -455,7 +457,7 @@ mail.example.com</programlisting>
restarted so that it will read the changes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+ -->
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</filename></term>
<listitem>
@@ -483,34 +485,37 @@ mail.example.com</programlisting>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc/mail/virtusertable</filename></term>
<listitem>
- <para>The <filename>virtusertable</filename> maps mail addresses
+ <para>This database file maps mail addresses
for virtual domains and users to real mailboxes. These
mailboxes can be local, remote, aliases defined in
- <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename>, or files.</para>
+ <filename>/etc/mail/aliases</filename>, or files. This allows
+ multiple virtual domains to be hosted on one machine.</para>
- <example>
- <title>Example Virtual Domain Mail Map</title>
+ <para>&os; provides a sample configuration file in
+ <filename>/etc/mail/virtusertable.sample</filename> to
+ further demonstrate its format. The following example demonstrates how
+ to create custom entries using that format:</para>
<programlisting>root at example.com root
postmaster at example.com postmaster at noc.example.net
@example.com joe</programlisting>
- </example>
- <para>The above example contains a mapping for the domain
- <systemitem class="fqdomainname">example.com</systemitem>.
- This file is processed in a first match order. The first item
- maps <email>root at example.com</email> to the local mailbox
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. The second
- entry maps <email>postmaster at example.com</email> to the
- mailbox <systemitem class="username">postmaster</systemitem>
- on the host <systemitem
- class="fqdomainname">noc.example.net</systemitem>. Finally,
- if nothing from <systemitem
- class="fqdomainname">example.com</systemitem> has matched so
- far, it will match the last mapping, which matches every other
- mail message addressed to someone at <systemitem
- class="fqdomainname">example.com</systemitem> to the local
- mailbox <systemitem class="username">joe</systemitem>.</para>
+ <para>This file is processed in a first match order. When an
+ email address matches the address on the left, it is mapped to
+ the local mailbox listed on the right. The format of the first entry in
+ this example maps a specific email address to a local mailbox,
+ whereas the format of the second entry maps a specific email
+ address to a remote mailbox. Finally, any email address
+ from <literal>example.com</literal> which has not matched any of the previous entries
+ will match the last mapping and be sent to the local mailbox
+ <literal>joe</literal>. When creating custom entries, use
+ this format and add them to
+ <filename>/etc/mail/virtusertable</filename>. Whenever this
+ file is edited, update its database and restart
+ <application>Sendmail</application>:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>service sendmail restart</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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