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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!frmug.fr.net!penelope.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: sn@penelope.frmug.fr.net (Sylvain Nierveze) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: 24 Jun 1996 21:27:44 +0200 Organization: Penelope Corp. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4qmq7g$15h@penelope.frmug.fr.net> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <4qk717$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: sn@penelope.frmug.fr.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Actually, i wish somebody would go and write a nifty sendmail : configuration tool that would make it easier for some common cases : (including getting mail via UUCP which is not covered at all by now). well this tool already exists : the m4 configuration files. Of course it is possible to give a default m4 file for an UUCP connexion, an Internet-connected mailhost site , and an Internet-connected mailrelay machine and decide which one to use during the FreeBSD installation. A part from these basic configurations, the best is to make a m4 file after having read the cf/README file which explains every configuration option. Otherwise, some configuration kits exist. For example, in France in the Jussieu university people developed a 'sendmail-jussieu kit' which is very handy to configure several machines similarly: ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub/jussieu/sendmail (not sure, i am not 'internet- connected') (I forgot the name of the authors of this kit, I apologize). But if there is an integrated configuration tool for sendmail, then there must be a configuration tool for bind, too (well, for Internet hosts at least ;-) ). However, if you want, I may help (I know shell and a little of perl programming). bye Sylvain