Simple sendmail.cf question

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

You know, I consider your subject line an oxymoron.

On Mar 18, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Bob Applegate wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to build sendmail.cf from
> the m4 files.  The instructions located in
> /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README are a bit vague.
>
> Can someone give me the secret recipe for doing this?
> I've always hand-edited the sendmail.cf file, but doing
> the work with macros looks so much easier.  I just need
> to find out how to properly do it.

Look in /etc/mail.   On my system there is a freebsd.mc and a  
submit.mc.  There is also a Makefile.

   make cf

will generate the .cf files from the .mc files using m4.

Cheers,


-j

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