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To make the examples on your screen match those in this book, we have elected to use V8 sendmail for the rest of this tutorial. If you are already running the latest release of V8 sendmail, you may skip this chapter. [1] Otherwise, you will need to get and compile V8. In this chapter we show you how to do just that. But don't worry. We don't intend to show you how to do a full installation. All you need is a runnable sendmail binary, and compiling one is generally pretty easy.
[1] You may still have to get the latest release and compare it to your system version to find out whether you really have the latest release.
V8 sendmail is officially available via anonymous FTP from:
Its distribution consists of two forms of tar(1) files, one compacted with compress(1) and the other with gzip(1):
sendmail.*.tar.Zcompressed source tar sendmail.*.tar.gz
The * in each of the above represents the current version
number, such as 8.x.y, where x denotes a major release and y denotes a
minor release. Get only one of these two files; they contain identical
copies of the distribution. The .gz form is smaller and
quicker to transfer with FTP.
After you get the source distribution, you next need to unpack it. Assuming the current version is 8.8.4, you unpack it with one of these commands:
%zcat sendmail.8.8.4.tar.Z | tar xf -%gzcat sendmail.8.8.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
Once successfully unpacked, you'll find a new subdirectory
in the current directory. It has the same name as the source
distribution, but with the .tar.Z or .tar.gz suffix
removed and the first dot in the name turned into a hyphen:
%lssendmail.8.8.4.tar.gz sendmail-8.8.4
Here, sendmail-8.8.4 is the directory that contains the source and documentation for sendmail. Change into that directory and look at its contents:
%cd sendmail-8.8.4%lsFAQ RELEASE_NOTES mail.local rmailKNOWNBUGS cf mailstats smrshMakefile contrib makemap srcREAD_ME doc praliases test
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