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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: 27 Jun 1996 09:22:25 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4qu5f1$ai@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <4qk717$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4qrkv7$53h@hops.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Darryl Watson (dwatson@abwam.com) wrote: : Sendmail is impossible to understand, difficult to set up, and annoying : to debug. Have you mucked around with the m4 stuff, or are you talking about editing the .cf file directly. The m4 stuff is _really_ relatively simple. In most cases, your config file will be 5 or 6 lines long: May laptop says: VERSIONID(`anorak.mc version 1.0') OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl DOMAIN(generic)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl define(`SMART_HOST', awfulhak.demon.co.uk)dnl MASQUERADE_AS( awfulhak.demon.co.uk )dnl It's not really difficult any more - unless you want to do something really smelly, in which case it's got to be tricky by definition. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....