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mented. All the tasks listed above should be simple to comprehend and per-
form. Another hidden cost of Unix. Funny thing, the cost is even larger if
your sysadmin can’t hack sendmail, because then your mail doesn’t work!
Sounds like blackmail.

Sendmail Made Simple Seminar

This seminar is aimed at the system administrator who would

like to understand how sendmail works and how to configure

it for their environment. The topics of sendmail operation,

how to read the sendmail.cf file, how to modify the send-

mail.cf file, and how to debug the sendmail.cf file are cov-

ered. A pair of simple sendmail.cf files for a network of

clients with a single UUCP mail gateway are presented. The

SunOS 4.1.1, ULTRIX 4.2, HP-UX 8.0, and AIX 3.1 send-

mail.cf files are discussed.

After this one day training seminar you will be able to:

• Understand the operation of sendmail.


• Understand how sendmail works with mail and SMTP and
  UUCP.


• Understand the function and operation of sendmail.cf files.


• Create custom sendmail rewriting rules to handle delivery to
  special addresses and mailers.


• Set up a corporate electronic mail domain with departmental
  sub-domains. Set up gateways to the Internet mail network
  and other commercial electronic mail networks.


• Debug mail addressing and delivery problems.


• Debug sendmail.cf configuration files.


• Understand the operation of vendor specific sendmail.cf files
  SunOS 4.1.2, DEC Ultrix 4.2, HP-UX 8.0, IBM AIX 3.1.

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