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

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 02:01  AM, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> I'm not sure that changes made through .m4 will be preserved through a
> Cobalt upgrade; I see nothing to show that they would.

They won't. I added DNSBLs to our Qube using m4 (and Charlie's 
instructions from the archives) and lost them in the 6.4 upgrade. 
Fortunately...

> 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.

...I do this too, partly because it's good common sense and partly because 
Charlie's instructions reminded me to. So I was able to recover my 
additions.

I don't know whether the "best" route is modifying the .cf or the .mc file.
 But I do know that the sendmail.org folks have documented the .mc route 
much more thoroughly, and therefore I feel more confident making changes 
there.

pjm