[Gllug] Sendmail + SuSE 7.3

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 15:04, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 19:07, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > 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...
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> True, but equally sendmail's configuration is versioned separately, so
> newer sendmails can understand older configuration files - an extremely
> nice piece of design, I think.

Very useful on occasion, admittedly.
 
> > > 
> > > 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?
> 
> Well, given a virtusertable source of:
 
<snip>
 
> I find that keeping the virtual domains separate from the real domains
> works better for me.
> 
> And, of course, it's unspeakably evil. Which is nice.

Separating things so that you get a separate namespace for virtual
domains is a nice feature, as isn't evil. Munging the cf directly to
achieve it is nasty though - why don't you just write an m4 "feature" or
"hack" to do it? Then you could even submit the file to sendmail.org,
and get it included in the distro - I think it's probably a useful
enough feature to merit it. Sendmail'd virtusertable support has always
felt a bit "tacked on" to me, and a true separation of user namespace
across domains would nicely solve that problem.

Mike.


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