Re: [cobalt-users] Editing sendmail.cf (was: mailscanner on raq550 gives an error)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SM wrote:

> Sendmail recommends that you generate a sendmail.cf using m4 instead of 
> editing the sendmail.cf.

Sendmail also recommends you buy their commercial package.  You don't
have to take sendmail's recommendations as gospel; you can implement
your own and do it your way.

>  It is then easier to upgrade your sendmail 
> version as you can generate a new sendmail.cf instead of having to figure 
> out what hacks have been implemented over the years.

Whether the "hacks" are in sendmail.cf or the m4 files, they're still
there; you can read them in either place.

> The Cobalt UI modifies the sendmail.cf instead of using m4 to generate a
> new cf.   That makes it difficult to customize sendmail or implement new
> features.

No, that makes it difficult to customize sendmail using m4.  We have no
problem customizing sendmail by writing the sendmail.cf file; I've been
making changes directly to the sendmail.cf file since at least 1994,
probably earlier.

I understand that a lot of people don't want to take the time to learn
the ins and outs of the sendmail.cf file; I feel the same way about m4,
which was to have been a universal configuration language but which
appears to only be used by sendmail.

Jeff
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