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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:04:58 +0000
From: Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk>
To: cjclark@home.com
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Subject: Re: Dial-up Sendmail
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"Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> wrote :

> Aleksandar Simic wrote,
> > In FreeBSD's FAQ under System Administration section there is an
> > answer to how to set up Sendmail to relay mail if a user has a dial-up
> > connection with an dynamically assigned IP number.
> > 
> > A user is advised to do the following:
> > 
> > 	#  cd /usr/src
> > 	#  tar -xvzf /cdrom/dists/src/ssmailcf.aa
> > 
> > in order to ensure that she/he has the required sources. 
> > 
> > After checking all the four CDs of 3.3 release I wasn't able to find
> > the /cdrom/dists/src/ssmailcf.aa file.
> > 
> > Since those sources don't exist I can't create ".mc" file and turn it
> > into "/etc/sendmail.cf"file.
> > 
> > Am I doing something very wrong or is the information in the FAQ out
> > of date ?
> > 
> > Thank you for your time.
> 
> Sorry for the delay on this. I put this mail aside and never got to
> looking it up until now.


	That is not a problem, I am glad you replied.


> There is no 'ssmailcf' set of source files on my old 3.2R CDs
> either. However, you can find the sources and install them with the
> first CD,
> 
> # cd /cdrom/src
> # cat scontrib.?? | tar xzf - -C /usr/src contrib/sendmail
> 
> If you want to put them somewhere else change the '/usr/src' to
> whatever directory you'd like.
> 
> Might want to submit a doc PR about that FAQ item.


	I wouldn't know how to do it. What would be the proper 
	channels ?


	Thank you.

						-Alex


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