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

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 01:08  PM, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> Does recreating sendmail.cf from the default .mc on the RaQ create a
> duplicate of the original .cf file?

No. I can't speak for the RaQ, but it doesn't on our Qube3 and I don't 
have any reason to expect the RaQ to be different.

I always compare the new and old .cf files (I'm not very handy with "diff"
 so I use the "find differences" function in BBEdit on my Mac) and I 
always find at least one change other than the one I've made. If I recall 
correctly, it's usually MaxMessageSize on the Qube; Charlie's instructions 
also point out that there may be POP-before-SMTP issues.

I speculate that the GUI works directly on the .cf file, so some settings 
made in the GUI aren't reflected in the m4 file - even if the user hasn't 
changed those settings.

This does add an extra step when mods are made from the m4 level. I 
recently added FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients') to my .mc file (to 
"intelligently" bounce mail sent to former users - another Charlie 
suggestion from a month or so back which made me look like a wizard in the 
office) and I never would have been able to do that in the .cf, so I've 
just taken the extra diff step as an acceptable price to pay for the 
otherwise simple modification. Maybe I would think differently if I knew 
more about sendmail, but I'm not there yet.

OK, enough from me (for now)...

pjm