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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Lucas wrote:

> See your own comment above.  The reason you shouldn't is that Cobalt could
> wipe it out with an update.

I'm not sure that changes made through .m4 will be preserved through a
Cobalt upgrade; I see nothing to show that they would.

  You may be good at documenting.  I have worked
> with a number of programmers and I have only seen one who did good
> documentation.  I imagine that most server administrators don't do a very
> good job of documenting changes they make.  Thus redoing changes made in
> the past could be quite hard to remember.

We simply save a copy of the sendmail.cf before we make changes.  That
way we can always do a "diff" after any Cobalt upgrade(s) to make sure
our changes are still there; if not, the diff output can be used to add
them back pretty easily.

I understand a lot of people don't do this; I think it's a good habit
for all of us to get into.

> This whole thread should have been directed to linux/sendmail experts and
> not to the list as a whole.

I won't argue either way; I think these issues are perfectly reasonable
for cobalt-users, but I can see why they're over a lot of heads.

On the Linux expert lists and the email/sendmail lists, most of us agree
to disagree on whether or not to make changes to sendmail.cf.

> I think that was what Charlie was trying to
> say.  There are too many of us that know a limited amount and see some
> instructions and try them.  Most of us would probably be in trouble.  Jeff,
> you and the like of Steve who run mailing lists and know sendmail quite
> well would be those the email was directed too and not to the rest of us.

Charlie writes that his email was NOT directed to the likes of me, and I
accept that.

I guess it's late enough for me to say goodnight.

Jeff
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