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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!worldnet.att.net!newsout1.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.aa.net!usenet From: dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 17 Dec 1996 04:35:06 GMT Organization: Software Munitions Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5957tq$ken@Holly.aa.net> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <584aao$5im@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <vusp5k6iy2.fsf@moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de> <p4uk9ql293s.fsf@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) 0.8.9 Beta(n) Cc: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35265 comp.mail.smail:2728 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32704 In <p4uk9ql293s.fsf@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> Kenneth Stailey wrote: > Felix> In Berkeley sendmail 8, there's a rather nifty m4 configuration package > Felix> for sendmail. With that, the configuration for a leaf site is about 10 > Felix> lines long, and is then preprocessed via m4 to yield the final > Felix> sendmail.cf (which you don't look at any more :-). > > Mike> I believe that m4 script is there to give most people a good start, > Mike> and not as a sort of replacement for sendmail.cf. > > Consider how much easier it is to upgrade sendmail if you wrote your > .cf file through the M4 macro kit like you should have. Writing .cf > files directly is OK for testing stuff quickly but in the long haul > you should code in the .mc and .m4 files. > You are correct; however, I agree with Mike. Eventually one gets to a point where one has rather simple problems to solve (via cf modification) but has to figure out how to force feed it through the m4 package. The process gets old quick. -dpg