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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:45:32 -0500
From:      Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
To:        bob@applegate.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simple sendmail.cf question
Message-ID:  <FF8F2A57-F657-48E9-BB4C-27709502D752@goldmark.org>
In-Reply-To: <200703182301.l2IN1I9x001848@buzz.applegate.org>
References:  <200703182301.l2IN1I9x001848@buzz.applegate.org>

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You know, I consider your subject line an oxymoron.

On Mar 18, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Bob Applegate wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to build sendmail.cf from
> the m4 files.  The instructions located in
> /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README are a bit vague.
>
> Can someone give me the secret recipe for doing this?
> I've always hand-edited the sendmail.cf file, but doing
> the work with macros looks so much easier.  I just need
> to find out how to properly do it.

Look in /etc/mail.   On my system there is a freebsd.mc and a  
submit.mc.  There is also a Makefile.

   make cf

will generate the .cf files from the .mc files using m4.

Cheers,


-j

-- 
Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/




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