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  • Upgrading and sendmail.cf

    From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 20 17:59:50 2020
    I'm pretty sure I ran into this before...now upgrading to 11.4 I am told that sendmail.cf has
    to be manually fixed in vi and am presented with having to edit a file that says "DO NOT EDIT
    THIS FILE!".

    So do I or don't I?

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    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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  • From mikea@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Jun 20 20:21:56 2020
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote in <rcliqm$egi$1@reader1.panix.com>:

    I'm pretty sure I ran into this before...now upgrading to 11.4 I am told that sendmail.cf has
    to be manually fixed in vi and am presented with having to edit a file that says "DO NOT EDIT
    THIS FILE!".

    So do I or don't I?

    As I see it, you have two choices:
    -1-: Edit the .cf file;
    -2-: Find what changes to make in the mc file, and make them,
    so that you don't have to edit the .cf file any more.

    These choices are not exclusive. I recommend an excursion through the Bat
    Book, possibly coupled with running with one or more debug switches on, and an excursion through the code.

    And ...

    You might actually describe the problem that is fixed by editing the .cf file, in hope that someone has seen it before and knows how to fix it.

    --
    French does have a certain je ne sais quoi, but I don't know
    what it is.
    -- Jeffrey Goldberg, in nanae

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  • From Detlef Sax@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sun Jun 21 08:33:41 2020
    On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 17:59:50 +0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein wrote:
    I'm pretty sure I ran into this before...now upgrading to 11.4 I am told that sendmail.cf has
    to be manually fixed in vi and am presented with having to edit a file that says "DO NOT EDIT
    THIS FILE!".

    sendmail to me is long ago. I think it's a royal pain up.

    But usually it's build and installed by make inside /etc/mail.
    And before you can edit the the mc-files in this folder to configure it.
    There are some READMEs you can find by
    locate sendmail | grep README

    There may be humans out there who can tell exactly how to configure
    sendmail to do what is supposed. I can't.

    Detlef
    --
    https://www.12schrittefrei.de/

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  • From jHackenthal@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Mon Jun 22 18:48:13 2020
    Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
    I'm pretty sure I ran into this before...now upgrading to 11.4 I am told
    that sendmail.cf has
    to be manually fixed in vi and am presented with having to edit a file
    that says "DO NOT EDIT
    THIS FILE!".

    So do I or don't I?

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.


    Sheeesh it’s not that hard. Make a dang backup already and get on with it.

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