Sendmail How-To's

Most of these documents were written during the years 2003-2005. Although they are outdated, I hope you can find helpful information.

Configuring Sendmail Milters

• Greylist: Installing milter-greylist from FreeBSD Ports
• ClamAV: Installing clamav-milter from FreeBSD Ports
• SenderID: Installing the SenderID Milter
• DomainKeys: Installing the DomainKeys Milter
• Building libmilter as a Shared Library on FreeBSD
• Notes on Installing MIMEDefang from the FreeBSD Ports Collection

Other Sendmail How-To's

• Help! My Mail Server is Being DoSsed!
• DNSBL: Configuring Sendmail for DNS-Based Blacklisting
• How to Filter All Incoming (and/or Outgoing) Mail with Procmail
• Spam Haters and Spam Friends: Per User (or Per Domain) Spam Control with access_db
• Configuring Sendmail for STARTTLS
• FreeBSD sendmail Frequently Asked Questions
• Installing Majordomo from the FreeBSD Ports Collection
• POP-before-SMTP Relay Configuration in FreeBSD Sendmail
• LMTP Configuration of the Procmail LDA in FreeBSD Sendmail
• FreeBSD Handbook: sendmail Configuration

More Sendmail/E-mail Documentation

• Selected MARID-Related Terms and Acronyms
• How I Sign and Encrypt E-mail with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
• Configuring Outlook Express to Authenticate to a Remove Mail Server
• Configuring Mozilla's E-mail Client to Authenticate to a Remote Mail Server
• Configuring Pine to Authenticate to a Remote Mail Server
• Negotiating an SMTP AUTH Authentication Mechanism
• My Experiences (So Far) with STARTTLS and Sendmail
• SSL/TLS Terms and Acronyms (Including Some General Cryptography Definitions)
• Books
• My First sendmail.cf
• How to Remove a Host from Sendmail's Class w

VPS1/VPS2 Documents Posted at vMailPros.com

• Adjusting sendmail's Retry Frequency on a VPS2
• How to Configure a VPS2 for DNSBL/RBL
• Fighting Dictionary and DoS Attacks with sendmail
• VPS1 Sendmail Differences
• How to Customize the sendmail.cf File on a VPS1
• How to Configure a VPS as a Backup Mail Server
• Choosing the RHS of Secondary MX Records
• How to Test a Backup Mail Server
• Sendmail Statistics with mailstats