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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 29
1.8.1

V10/Berkeley <- good
V10/Berkeley <- bad, does not begin a line

Corrected in the 3th edi, the same spot

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 46
top

% cd sendmail-8.14.1
Look at page 45

Also corrected in 3th edi (P42 1/2-way)

Anonymous   
Printed Page 185
last paragraph

Here is the printed version:
If you install openssl in directories [...]

It should be:
If you install sasl in directories [...]

Because the chapter talk abour SASL library and not OpenSSL.

 Anonymous   
PDF Page 196
1st paragraph

in AuthInfo database example entries

Authinfo:IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 ← an IPv6 address

shouldn't it be (adding an imaginary version of a valid suppressed representation)?

Authinfo:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 ← an IPv6 address

 Athanasios Viennas  Aug 26, 2015 
Printed Page 203
definition list after 2nd paragraph

The definition list has 3 entries: SSL, TLS, SMTP AUTH. Where SMTP AUTH is typed as "SMTP AUTH=". The "AUTH=" part is in terminal font. I guess this is some editing error.

Note that index (p1278) also has the "SMTP AUTH=" entry, pointing to the above error (p203).

 Masao Uebayashi  Jul 19, 2012 
Printed, PDF Page 278
5th

FEATURE(`access_db', `db specification' `relaytofulladdress')

must have a comma in between arguments

FEATURE(`access_db', `db specification', `relaytofulladdress')dnl

 Marcus Schopen  Nov 10, 2013 
Printed Page 619
1st paragraph under 17.8.13 FEATURE(conncontrol)

ClientRate:192.168.23.45 10

should read

ClientConn:192.168.23.45 10

 Andre Roman  Feb 25, 2009 
Printed Page 620
2nd paragraph

In the ?17.8.13 FEATURE(conncontrol) you use the same example as in ?17.8.43 FEATURE(ratecontrol).
It says
ClientRate:192.168.23.45 2
ClientRate:127.0.0.1 0
ClientRate: 10
ClientRate:10.5.2 2

I think it should say
ClientConn:192.168.23.45 2
ClientConn:127.0.0.1 0
ClientConn: 10
ClientConn:10.5.2 2

otherwise I cannot understand the difference between the examples in ?17.8.13 and ?17.8.43

 Guy Wald  Jan 08, 2009 
Printed Page 620
1st paragraph

ClientRate:192.168.23.45 2
ClientRate:127.0.0.1 0
ClientRate: 10
ClientRate:10.5.2 2
ClientRate:IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 5

Should read:

ClientConn:192.168.23.45 2
ClientConn:127.0.0.1 0
ClientConn: 10
ClientConn:10.5.2 2
ClientConn:IPv6:2002:c0a8:51d2::23f4 5

 Andre Roman  Feb 25, 2009 
PDF Page 644
17.8.13 FEATURE(conncontrol)

In the section describing the conncontrol feature, ClientRate: is used in access.db, which should be ClientConn:

 Anonymous  May 31, 2011 
Printed Page 877
about an inch down from top of text, about 80% of the way towards the right margin

printed: FEATURE(use_ct_file)
^
should be: FEATURE(use_cw_file)
^

 Michael Paoli  Mar 26, 2009 
Printed Page 877
7th printed non-blank text line from top, about 1" from right margin

printed as:
use_ct_file
should be:
use_cw_file

 Michael Paoli  Apr 29, 2009 
916
table 23-29, section 23.7.27

The table 23-27 entry reads "-f (section)23.3.4 Perform a case-insensitive search" which seems to imply that all case is translated to lower-case for comparison. This differs from the section 23.3.4 verbiage which reads:

"23.3.4. -f

Preserve case V8.1 and later

Ordinarily, sendmail will normalize a key to lowercase before looking it up in a database. If the keys in the database are case-sensitive ("TEX" is considered different from "tex," for example), the -f database switch should be used to prevent this normalization. Note that if the -f switch is omitted (the default), the database must have been created with all lowercase keys (also the default).

Also note that when the -f switch is used with the regex database-map type, it causes the regular expression match to be made in a case-insensitive manner."

IMHO this seems to be the exact opposite of the Description supplied in Table 23-27.

This problem was discovered in the 3rd Edition on pages 916 and 868 respectively, the checked in 4th Edition on-line. At worst it is incorrect, at best misleading.

Bill Kanawyer  Sep 29, 2009 
Printed Page 917
Section 23.7.11.14

The -R ldap database map switch is used to disable (not enable as printed) LDAP referrals. So, with this -R option specified, sendmail will *not* follow referrals.

 Gregory Shapiro
 		 Dec 14, 2009 
Printed Page 976
2nd indented line

Page 976, 24.9.5
2nd indented line
-O is a command line option

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 976
2nd indented line

Page 976, 24.9.5
2nd indented line
-O is a command line option

page 977, 24.9.6
Same old story.
Both are also wrong in 3th edi




 Anonymous  Jul 02, 2008 
Printed Page 977
section 24.9.6

2nd indented line
-O is a command line option

 Anonymous