Off topic but sendmail help needed

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sun Apr 11 01:09:50 PDT 2004


On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:10:11PM -0400, Rob wrote:
> Yeah, I believe it's 4.4 and I've been on this server for years. They are
> supposed to take care of the upgrades but they never do. I would do it
> myself but if anything goes wrong they charge to fix it and so I've pretty
> much left it alone up until now. I'll probably end up switching providers in
> a few weeks so I may have a shot at the upgrades next weekend.

In which case you're runnning a system with an old and vulnerable
version of sendmail.

Recommend you update as a matter of priority.

In order to generate the sendmail.cf that you need, the command to use
is:

    # cd /etc/mail
    # m4 -D_CF_DIR=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 foo.mc > foo.cf

assuming that you have a load of sendmail related .m4 files under
/usr/share/sendmail/cf -- you may have to substitute
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf instead.

Then, once you're happy that it's generated a reasonable sendmail
configuration file, copy foo.cf to sendmail.cf and restart sendmail.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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