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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 
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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