Brion Vibber wrote:
and m4 is
the suggested (in the sendmail install documentation) format for
sendmail configuration, from which actual .cf files are built.
Feel free to mess with it, my good man. *shudder*
Just in case some other wikitech members don't know anything about
sendmail, I'll explain Brion's *shudder*. The sendmail.cf file is in
more or less the original format that sendmail.cf files have been in
for years: virtually indistinguishable in places from modem noise.
When the fine folks at sendmail realized that the complexity of the
config file had grown so high that virtually no one understood how to
use it, they came up with a brilliant (?) idea.
Now what you're supposed to do is write *another* config file, in M4
format (a format no one else uses for anything) and compile that
(using a program no one else uses for anything) to create a
sendmail.cf.
It's all frightening and insane.
It sounds like a damn good reason to double Brion's salary. ;-)
Ec