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

[SM <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,
At 15:49 21-06-2003 -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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.

I am not referring to sendmail.com. :)  I have seen a lot of people 
encountering problems upgrading to a new version because the previous admin 
did things his/her way.

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

It takes longer to read through the sendmail.cf and see whether it was 
hacked or not. :)

> 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 don't understand your statement about how it is more difficult to 
customize sendmail using m4.  If you want to add a new feature, it's a 
matter of adding one line to the .mc and using m4 to generate the sendmail.cf.

> 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.

m4 is not only used by sendmail. It is still used in configuration 
scripts.  A lot of people won't take the time to learn how to administer 
their server. :)  The sendmail.cf is the reason why people shy away from 
sendmail.  You don't have to understand the m4 language to use m4 and 
generate the sendmail.cf.

Regards,
-sm