
			BATV-MILTER PACKAGE

This directory has the latest open source BATV filter software from
Sendmail, Inc.

Report any bugs to batv-milter-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net.

There is a web site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/batv-milter that is
home for the latest updates.


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| INTRODUCTION |
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The batv-milter package is an open source implementation of the BATV
e-mail authentication system proposed in an Internet Draft (ID)
by John Levine, Dave Crocker, Sam Silberman and Tony Finch.  It
consists of a filter which implements the proposal.  The filter can be
used by Open Source sendmail mail servers and any other which implements
the "milter" filtering protocol.


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| DEPENDENCIES |
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To compile and operate, this package requires the following:

o OpenSSL (http://www.openssl.org, or ask your software vendor for a package)

o sendmail v8.14.0 (or later), and libmilter from the same distribution
  (http://www.sendmail.org)


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| RELATED DOCUMENTATION |
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General information about BATV can be found at http://www.mipassoc.org/batv.

Mailing lists discussing and supporting the BATV software found in this
package are maintained via the list server at SourceForge.  Visit
http://sourceforge.net/batv-milter to subscribe or browse archives.


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| WARNING |
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Since batv-milter uses cryptography, the following information from OpenSSL
applies to this package as well.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EXPORT/IMPORT AND/OR USE OF STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY
SOFTWARE, PROVIDING CRYPTOGRAPHY HOOKS OR EVEN JUST COMMUNICATING
TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT CRYPTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE IS ILLEGAL IN SOME
PARTS OF THE WORLD.  SO, WHEN YOU IMPORT THIS PACKAGE TO YOUR
COUNTRY, RE-DISTRIBUTE IT FROM THERE OR EVEN JUST EMAIL TECHNICAL
SUGGESTIONS OR EVEN SOURCE PATCHES TO THE AUTHOR OR OTHER PEOPLE
YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ANY EXPORT/IMPORT
AND/OR USE LAWS WHICH APPLY TO YOU.  THE AUTHORS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR
ANY VIOLATIONS YOU MAKE HERE.  SO BE CAREFUL, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

If you use OpenSSL then make sure you read their README file which
contains information about patents etc.


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| DIRECTORY STRUCTURE |
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devtools	m4-based build scripts and other data needed to compile
		the package.

batv-filter	A milter-based filter application which provides BATV
		service via a sendmail MTA and the milter protocol.


$Revision: 1.2 $, Last updated $Date: 2007/03/10 03:14:04 $
