email woes.

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 04:26 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 10:23:50PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On the Red Hat systems, you would have to install the 'sendmail-cf' and
> > the m4 package for generating a sendmail.cf file from the sendmail.mc
> > 
> > This I found intensely more favorable than trying to learn how to edit
> > sendmail.cf files directly.
> 
> Yes! It's worth the extra effort to learn a bit of m4.
> 
> > My guess is that you would need something similar on slackware/OpenBSD
> > boxes.
> 
> Not sure about slack (it's been years), but OpenBSD has m4 installed,
> and the *.mc files in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
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thus it would appear that to generate a new sendmail.cf after
editing /usr/share/sendmail/cf/sendmail.mc would be...

m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

but good idea to backup sendmail.cf first...

Craig