[Gllug] Sendmail + SuSE 7.3

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Fri Mar 15 00:12:11 UTC 2002


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:-

FEATURE(genericstable, hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable)dnl

Then, regenerate your sendmail.cf with m4. Any time you want to change
anything in sendmail, it can almost always be done far more easily by
editing the mc file and regenerating the cf file than by editing the cf
file directly. Editing the mc file makes for a far more maintainable and
portable sendmail configuration....

Mike.


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