[plug] re: Sendmail

Gary Allpike spice at spice.net.au
Wed Jul 14 20:14:18 WST 1999



oops.



On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Gary Allpike wrote:

> 
> People tend to over complicate sendmail.
> 
> With the newer version, most of the features you are ever likely to need
> are defined as m4 macros.
> 
> On a debian system, you edit the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and add in the
> appropriate directives to make sendmail do what you want.  You then run
> the "sendmailconfig" command and regenerate the .cf file.
> 
> Also on a debian system, cf.README has all sorts of interesting stuff in

                             ^^^^ /usr/doc/sendmail/cf.README


> it.
> 
> regards
> 
> Gary Allpike
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Paul Wilson wrote:
> 
> > > At 15:19 14/07/99 +0700, Paul Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > > >Quite ! A config file that looks like line noise is pretty impressive in
> > an
> > > >odd sort of way.
> > >
> > > I've got a mate that includes on his CV that he understands and can
> > > configure sendmail.  He's earning about $200k/year at the moment.
> > 
> > The man deserves it !  My attempts at configuring the beast stop very early
> > on.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> 



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