Breaking the sendmail code / sendmail for dummies

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 08/02/2010 13:11, John wrote:

> So - I did all that you suggested, and it sure looks like it worked,
> but I still have a question.  It did both the hostname.mc and the
> hostname.submit.mc files and .cf files, but I didn't do anything
> to the hostanme.submit.mc file.  Am I still OK?

Yes.  The submit.mc / submit.cf files very rarely need any sort of
customization.  All of the real processing happens in the sm-mta (mail
transfer agent) instance: the only reason for the sm-msp (mail
submission process) instance to exist is to provide secure user-level
access to the privileged sm-mta process without having to make the
sendmail binary run setuid-root.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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