Re: [cobalt-users] Re:Manual Sendmail.cf RBL SpamCop/ORDB

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie Summers wrote:

>    I maintain it is irresponsible for you to to post those specific
> instructions to the list, since even a misplaced line feed can render the
> sendmail.cf file (and by extention sendmail) useless

Are you being a bit condescending, Charlie?  Some of us have been
successfully modifying sendmail.cf since the 1990s, or even before.  If
a system has a sendmail.cf that's been hand modified, then going the .m4
route will overwrite those modifications; hand-modifying sendmail.cf
will NOT overwrite changes made either by previous hand modifications or
by going the .m4 route.

But of course using handmade sendmail.cf changes will make it hard to go
back to .m4 in the future.

Changes made by either method could be overwritten by any Sun Cobalt
upgrade package.

All this is just another example of how important it is for the
administrator to know what s/he has been doing to modify his/her
system(s).

>    Some of us _do_ occasionally manually alter sendmail.cf; but we understand
> why we shouldn't,

Frankly, and of course personally, I've never understood why I
shouldn't.  I find it's a lot more flexible to modify to the sendmail.cf
directly.

Jeff
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