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+I have included two posssible setups for sendmail:
+
+- "cf/sendmail-slackware.mc" for people who are connected to the internet
+ (most probably via ethernet or dialup). This configuration is installed
+ by default.
+
+- "cf/linux.uucp.mc", if you have one uucp host to send all mail (via uucp).
+ The other uucp host must understand domain names and "normal" internet
+ mail addresses like luser@host.domain.edu.
+ You first have to configure uucp to work properly (/usr/conf/uucp).
+ Then you have to change the name of the uucp host you are connected to in
+ the sendmail config file. If you are connected to "hugo", your config file
+ has a line "define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:hugo)".
+
+If you want to install a new configuration file, do as root
+"m4 linux.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf", where linux.mc is one of the above
+config files or a new one by yourself.
+
+The file README contains a good description about sendmail config files.
+
+Florian La Roche flla@stud.uni-sb.de
+
+----------------
+
+More notes about sendmail in the Slackware distribution:
+
+Two ready-made config files are provided here:
+
+ sendmail-slackware.cf and linux.uucp.cf.
+
+To use one, just copy it to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. If you use the one
+for UUCP, you'll have to change the part that says:
+
+# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
+DSuucp-dom:otheruucphost
+
+...replacing 'otheruucphost' with the name of the UUCP host you'll
+be connecting to.
+
+The standard Slackware config file for using sendmail with TCP/IP on Linux
+is sendmail-slackware.cf. This supports numerous extra features that can
+be set up with the config files in /etc/mail, such as the /etc/mail/access
+control file. See the README section titled ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION CONTROL
+for more information on how to set up the /etc/mail/access and other config
+files (domaintable, mailertable, virtusertable).
+
+If you need to generate your own .cf file from a .mc file, you'll need to
+install the m4.tgz package (GNU m4), and the sendmail-cf.tgz package. (The
+full configuration package for sendmail, plus the extra Slackware *.mc
+files)
+
+This sendmail package has been configured to use procmail for local mail
+delivery. Be sure to install the procmail.tgz package.
+
+I'd like to thank Florian La Roche for making it so easy to compile sendmail
+for Linux, and Eric Allman for creating the sendmail system in the first
+place. I'd also like to thank Stephen R. van den Berg for letting us use the
+procmail system with Slackware -- it greatly enhances the usefulness of the
+Linux mail system.
+
+Have fun! If you find any bugs that you think are my fault, please
+let me know.
+
+Patrick Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>
+
+(See more docs in /usr/doc/sendmail...)