[cobalt-users] Sendmail install from source (Was: sendmail-8.9.3-C7.src.rpm)

[sm <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
At 15:02 03-03-2003 +0100, Goetz Lohmann wrote:
>Jepp ... me too ... tried to compile sendmail on a full patched Cobalt
>RaQ4 but got a lot trouble
>with installing the binarys ... is there anybody out there who have a
>working sendmail.cf/*.mc
>file for sendmail 8.12.* and some hints and tipps installing them ... I
>relay would appreciate
>any help ;-)

I don't have access to a RaQ4 to test a compile from source.  I have tested
an install on a RaQ3 and it works.  Does your RaQ4 have a
/etc/mail/local-host-names file?

>also (thanks to "-sm") the RuleSet for sendmail.conf:

The ruleset goes in your sendmail.mc and you build a sendmail.cf using m4.
It is not the sendmail.conf file. :)

I have not tested an installation of sendmail with SASL support.  It's a
bit complicated as you have to identify the existing libsasl files used on
the RaQ unless you install SASL from source.

If you are not using SMTP AUTH, then installing sendmail from source should
not break your RaQ.  Upgrading from sendmail 8.9.3 to 8.12.x requires
creating a user and group and setting the required dirrectory permissions.
You should use the mc file that comes with the RaQ to avoid breaking the
Web UI.

Regards,
-sm