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Article #2618Sendmail Training Seminars, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin
From: Robert Harker
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:23
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:23
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Due to popular demand we have added a second advanced sendmail seminar to our
offerings. (Sendmail Made Simple is a prerequisite to Advanced Sendmail.)
These courses will also be available on video tape in the spring of this year.
The dates for the Sendmail seminars are as follows:
Santa Clara, CA
Sendmail Made Simple January 14, 1993
Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 15, 1993
Los Angeles, CA
Sendmail Made Simple January 19, 1993
Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 20, 1993
Seattle, WA
Sendmail Made Simple January 25, 1993
Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 26, 1993
Austin, TX
Sendmail Made Simple February 8, 1993
Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains February 9, 1993
These seminars are aimed at the system administrator who would like to
understand how sendmail works and how to set up complex electronic mail domains
using sendmail.
Just to be fair, the two other courses I know of that include information
about configuring and debugging sendmail are:
A tutorial given by Fred Avolio, avolio@dco.dec.com, which is part of his
one day seminar at DECUS on Setting up your mail gateway
Rob Kolstad teaches a half day seminar on sendmail witch is offered as part
of the USENIX conference
Of course I think my classes are better because they goes into more depth about
configuring and debugging sendmail itself, and setting up mail domains using
DNS and MX records. But then again, I might be a tad biased about this (:-)
The one-day Sendmail Made Simple seminar covers the topics of sendmail
operation, how to read the sendmail.cf file, how to modify the sendmail.cf file,
and how to debug the sendmail.cf file. 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, ULTIRX 4.2, HP-UX 8.0, and AIX 3.1 sendmail.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
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
In the one-day Advanced Sendmail and Electronic Mail Domains seminar how mail
sub-domains work, configuration of mail sub-domains and mail routing hubs,
the purpose of Internet Mail eXchanger (MX) records, and setting up the Domain
Naming System (DNS) to advertise MX records for domains and sub-domains.
The Ease sendmail compiler, the m4 compiler for sendmail 5.65, IDA
sendmail, UK-sendmail and JUNET sendmail are explained.
After this one day training seminar you will be able to:
Understand the function and operation of sub-domains in a complex mail network
Understand how to set-up mail sub-domains and mail routing hubs
How mail delivery with-in the Internet is assisted with Mail eXchanger records
How to set-up the Domain Naming System on a firewall gateway to provide MX
records for domains and internal sub-domains
How to create sendmail.cf files using the Ease and m4 sendmail compiler
How to use the m4 sendmail compiler with configurations from:
sendmail 5.65, IDA sendmail, UK-sendmail and JUNET
An outline for both seminars is included at the end of this announcement
Course Fees: US$349 either day, US$675 both days. Fees include the seminar,
seminar notes, lunch, and refreshments.
For more information call (415) 323-3862
or send electronic mail to info@harker.com
Registration Form:
Santa Clara, CA
[ ] Sendmail Made Simple January 14, 1993
[ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 15, 1993
Los Angeles, CA
[ ] Sendmail Made Simple January 19, 1993
[ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 20, 1993
Seattle, WA
[ ] Sendmail Made Simple January 25, 1993
[ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains January 26, 1993
Austin, TX
[ ] Sendmail Made Simple February 8, 1993
[ ] Advanced Sendmail & Electronic Mail Domains February 9, 1993
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Course Fees: US$349 either day, US$675 both days.
Fees include the seminar, seminar notes, lunch, and refreshments.
Registration:
Attendance is limited and expected to fill up in advance so register early.
To register MAIL the check and registration form to:
Harker Systems,
840 Melville Avenue,
Palo Alto CA 94301
(415) 323-3862
Please make checks payable to Harker Systems
Payment must be received before the course start date.
Sorry credit cards are not accepted.
Hotel Information is available upon request.
Sendmail Made Simple Seminar Outline
* Introduction to using electronic mail
How mail, UUCP, and sendmail work together
Electronic mail address formats
Understanding mail delivery in the Internet
The Function of MX records
MX forwarders and UUCP hosts
* Theory of sendmail operation
What sendmail does
How sendmail works
Options for invoking sendmail
Sendmail support files
Programs used by sendmail
Files used to create, store, and control messages
SMTP operation
* Understanding the sendmail.cf file
Function of sendmail.cf
How sendmail processes mail addresses
How sendmail delivers mail
Parts of sendmail.cf
Macro definitions
Header rewriting
Option definitions
Address rewriting rules
Understanding the rule sets
What the function of each rule set is
Mailer resolution rules:
mailer, next host, address triples
Understanding the syntax of rule rewriting
* Address rewriting rules
How do rewriting tokens work
Function of the focus address
Using matching tokens
Using matching classes
How rules are applied
How an address matches a mailer
Local, UUCP, Ethernet, Internet
Configuring sendmail.cf
Standard macro definition changes
Creating Custom Sendmail Rewriting Rules
Define what addresses you want to match
Define how to rewrite the addresses
Write a rule for the address
Test the address with the rule
Test other non matching addresses for bad rewrites
Adding a custom mailer
* Debugging sendmail
sendmail.cf configuration files
Address re-writing problems
Queuing problems
Forwarding problems
Delivery problems
Using checksendmail to check overall address rewriting
Running sendmail in address test mode
* Discussion of vendor supplied sendmail.cf Files
SunOS 4.1.2, Ultrix 4.2, HP-UX 8.0, AIX 3.1
Unique features of each vendor
Advanced Sendmail Electronic Mail Domains Seminar Outline
* Understanding the function of sub-domains in a complex mail network
Overview of mail sub-domains
Administrative control
Grouping of hosts and users
Mail delivery to sub-domains within a hierarchial network
Mail delivery outside of the a hierarchial network
* Setting-up mail sub-domains and mail routing hubs
Choosing sub-domains
Setting up a sub-domain mail hub
Hub of a group of hosts
Communications with other sub-domains
Communications with external mail sites
Setting up mail hub for a mail domain
* Mail eXchanger (MX) records and mail delivery in the Internet
Understanding the function of MX records
Advertising mail forwarders with MX records
Wild-card MX records for the mail domain as a whole
MX records for sub-domains
Host specific MX records
Using MX records for delivery to a backup mail hub
Limitations of MX records
* Setting-up the Domain Naming System
Overview of DNS
Setting up DNS for a firewall gateway
Setting up primary server
Setting up internal secondary server
Setting up external secondary server
Verifying DNS configuration
Debugging DNS problems
* Installing standard Berkeley sendmail
* Installing IDA sendmail
Unique features of IDA sendmail
Operation of IDA sendmail
* Automatic creation of sendmail.cf files Ease 3.1 sendmail compiler
Ease syntax
Definition of macros, classes, options, headers, precedence,
and trusted users
Definition of mailers
Definition of rule sets
Definition of matching patterns (rewriting rules)
Use of conditional operators in Ease
Conversion of existing sendmail.cf files to Ease format
Advanced Sendmail Electronic Mail Domains Seminar Outline (cont.)
* Automatic creation of sendmail.cf files m4 sendmail compiler
Overview of the m4 macro language processor
How the m4 macro language processor is used to create
sendmail.cf files
Overview of the m4 template files
Boiler plate for macros, classes, options, headers
Standard sendmail ruleset templates, rules 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mailer template files for local, SMTP, and UUCP
Overview of the "mc" master configuration files
How to create a site dependent m4 and mc files for your site
How to use the m4 compiler to maintain sendmail.cf files for
many sites
* How to use the m4 sendmail compiler with configurations from:
sendmail 5.65, IDA sendmail, UK-sendmail and JUNET
* Verifying and debugging sendmail.cf files generated by a sendmail
compiler
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!harker.com!harker From: harker@harker.com (Robert Harker) Subject: Sendmail Training Seminars, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin Message-ID: <1993Jan4.202341.20564@harker.com> Summary: Sendmail operation, configuration, and mail domains training seminar Originator: harker@harker Keywords: sendmail electronic mail MX records DNS IDA Ease sendmail.cf Sender: harker@harker.com Organization: Harker Systems, 840 Melville Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Distribution: ba Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:23:41 GMT Lines: 264