Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 13:55:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail 8.9.x Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807301354110.17630-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9807292009190.8447-100000@fallout.campusview.in diana.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, John Fieber wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > >From the support department: > > > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > the Makefile there is already taken. Sendmail will move to having it's > > > sendmail.cf file as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf in the next release, and already > > > many of the .m4 files refer to optional files in /etc/mail. > > > > Well, /etc/mail is a FreeBSD creation. > > Oh? /etc/mail is where all the sendmail related stuff is housed > in HP-UX 10. Since a complicated configuration can involve a > whole slew of files, it makes sense. I should have qualified that, the files IN /etc/mail on FreeBSD releases aren't from the Sendmail distribution (AFAIK). > I'd just like to be able to build a new sendmail.cf without > digging out the sendmail source to get all the m4 files. It's easy enough for me since I mirror the CVS repository, but for the plain jane user who needs to tune their sendmail.cf it isn't too easy (although AnonCVS is a lot better about it). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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