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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!deeken From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Smail 3.1.28 on 386bsd Date: 7 May 1993 10:44:45 +0200 Organization: TU Darmstadt, ITI Lines: 31 Message-ID: <deeken.736763937@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> References: <1993Apr30.051036.14358@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> <PC123.93Apr30181830@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: spelunke.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes: >This is one of the irritating features I alluded to in my other >article on e-mail, posted yesterday! The annoying thing is that there >is a configuration file, which sets compiled-in defaults, and there >are also several configuration files which are loaded at run time. If >you are not careful, the compiled-in defaults show through - I >personally override all the compiled-in defaults simply because if you >try to compile in your configuration it takes so long changing >anything. I wouldn't call smail's configuration mechanism annoying. Most of the compiled-in defaults need no change, and _everything_ (as far as I know) is overridable by the runtime configuration. That keeps the external configuration quite small and managable. This is one of the reasons I prefer smail 3 over sendmail (yes, I know IDA :). >Most likely, then, is that your smail binary has a compiled in default >machine name of com9. You either need to override the appropriate >setting in your config file, or else change it in the EDITME file and >recompile. I'd go for changing the config file, since recompiling takes a _lot_ more time than simply editing a text file. Hannes -- Hans-Christoph Deeken (deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) TH Darmstadt, Germany