Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:55:10 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing sendmail.cf... Message-ID: <199810262055.MAA02772@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810242222120.12675-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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>Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:30:55 +0800 (WST) >From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> >To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> >> But then I saw that I had no /etc/sendmail.cf file! How come? Isn't 'make >> world' supposed to recreate the /etc files? >No. Do the following: >bash# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf >bash# make freebsd.cf >bash# cp freebsd.cf /etc/sendmail.cf >Edit your new sendmail.cf to match your local requirements. With respect for Dean's advice (which apparently has worked OK for Antoine already), I suggest that it may be of value to consider making a copy of freebsd.mc for a specific (type of) installation, modify that, and then use "make" to create a customized .cf file. For example, I have a "whistle.mc" that I used to create a "whistle.cf"; I use that .cf file for all internal UNIX machines that I set up (except for the main internal mail hub). I have another for that internal mail hub, and another for the externally-visible MXs on our perimeter net. (And machines such as our news server don't accept mail from external machines.) Basically, if you're to the point where you can be reasonably comfortable configuring a kernel, using the "m4" mechanism to configure a sendmail.cf should be fairly familiar. There are certainly differences -- but doing that (vs. changing the sendmail.cf) is like the difference between changing the kernel config file vs. changing the kernel sources: yes, you can do it. And if you know what you're doing, you can do a good job of it. And granted, you can break things either way. But the usefule part of our internal whistle.mc is merely: include(`../m4/cf.m4') VERSIONID(`@(#)whistle.mc $Revision: 1.4 $') OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl FEATURE(`stickyhost')dnl FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl define(`confCT_FILE', `-o /etc/sendmail.ct')dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`whistle.com')dnl define(`confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL', 4)dnl define(`confAUTO_REBUILD', True)dnl define(`LOCAL_RELAY', `whistle.com')dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl -- and the masquerading probably isn't really necessary, nor are the 2 "conf*" defines (they are there because what was being used internally before I got here was evidently using them, and I tend to be very conservative about changes -- especially for email). Basically, the "interesting" parts are FEATURE(`stickyhost')dnl define(`LOCAL_RELAY', `whistle.com')dnl which says to send all mail addressed to <someone>@whistle.com to the internal mail hub, but if mail is addressed to <someone>@host.whistle.com, if the message gets to host.whistle.com, it stays there. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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