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From: wilsonm@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: Re: Sendmail/NetBSD
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 13:52:09 GMT

In article <29gc6gINN25m@flinx.RoBIN.de>, hannes@flinx.RoBIN.de (Hannes Deeken) writes:
> cor@hacktic.nl (Cor) 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. 

After searching for that directory I can only assume that it was not installed.
I guess I will have to pickup all the source code again an install it. The 
person that installed it originally is not longer here :(

Is it ksrc09, gsrc09 src09 or ssrc09?