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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!centauri.hq.nasa.gov!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!usenet From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 13 Dec 1996 20:44:07 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 12 Message-ID: <p4uk9ql293s.fsf@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <584aao$5im@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <vusp5k6iy2.fsf@moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: Mike Dowling's message of 06 Dec 1996 11:55:17 +0100 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35157 comp.mail.smail:2704 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32541 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.