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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please Help:  Name server timeouts from sendmail
Date: 13 Oct 1995 08:42:57 +0100
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Jim Smithson <jrs@tampa2.is.ge.com> wrote:

>Can't you just edit the sendmail.cf file:
># macro L defines the "local domain" to which ...
>DLmydomain.com

>I know this works on HP-UX 9.0X but I'm a bit new to FreeBSD so I
haven't tried it.

FreeBSD comes with sendmail 8.  It's not a good idea to hack
sendmail.cf directly there, the .mc files are a much better place to
go.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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