[Gllug] Sendmail + SuSE 7.3

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 09:41, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 00:12, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 23:34, Dave Cridland wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 12:39, an unknown sender wrote:
> > > > I get is kellyh@ also SuSE had an article on their website telling me
> > > > all I had to do was edit /etc/mail/genericstable, and then makemap...
> > > > 
> > > > What am I missing?
> > > 
> > > I suggest taking a stock /etc/sendmail.cf, and editing it quickly.
> > 
> > This is unspeakably *evil*.
> > 
> > Do not edit your sendmail.cf if it's at all possible to avoid. Eric
> > Allman has been quoted as saying that sendmail.cf should be treated as a
> > binary file. It's far easier to generate it from the mc file. To add
> > genericstable support to your sendmail configuration, you only need one
> > line on an mc file:-
> 
> Personally, I find it easier to edit the cf file by far. :-)

Up to a point, perhaps. When you change version of sendmail it's far
easier to get moving quickly again if you kept an mc file though - you
can just regenerate your cf for the new version.
> 
> Then again, I find that some of the features don't do what I need a lot
> of the time anyway, on those occasions when I need to tamper with the cf
> at all. virtusertable springs to mind, for instance - I tend to rework
> that a fair amount for plenty of cases.

What do you change?

Mike.


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