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From: hannes@flinx.RoBIN.de (Hannes Deeken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Sendmail/NetBSD
Date: 13 Oct 1993 08:53:38 +0100
Organization: Nosimals & Co.
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Message-ID: <29gc6gINN25m@flinx.RoBIN.de>
References: <1993Oct12.080540.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <29ed66INNipa@xs4all.hacktic.nl>
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cor@hacktic.nl (Cor) writes:
>wilsonm@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
>>Just wondering if someone out there has a sample sendmail.cf that I could
>>look at. We installed NetBSD .09 and no starter file was there. I picked up
>>IDA sendmail and it does not seem to have a sample one either.
>>
>There seem to be a lot of people with sendmail.cf problems.
>No surprise ofcourse, besides the authors (altho thats questionable even :)
>no one really knows whats going on in there :). Anyways..
>if you use IDA sendmail, you dont really need to make your own sendmail.cf
>All you have to do is create an M4 file. Then run m4 over that file
>and voila, you have a sendmail.cf. I am pretty sure the documentation for
>this comes with IDA. Upon request I can always email anyone my M4 file.
>With some minor changes it should work fine for any system
Why should one want to install IDA sendmail when sendmail 8.3 is installed?
Sendmail 8.x has a configuration scheme similar to IDA sendmail. Take a look
at /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf, especially the file README.
Hannes
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