On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > > IMO, linuxconf should manage sendmail.mc rather than sendmail.cf. > > That would be more reasonable, however not all that sendmail can do is > supported with the m4 rules and such. Not at the moment at least. Sendmail > is their selling point because of how complex it is, how little m4 helps and > how much they can do with it. The motivation for the project is that > sendmail if easy to configure could sell linux and the opensource paradigm > to a few people. This is good. > > The solution of course is to extend the m4 stuff to support all the things > linuxconf does, but that's not so easy. Also, note that slackware didn't at > last look have m4 sendmailconfig. Another example of where slackware is > doing more harm than good these days by not adopting things the rest of the > world has... =p
This sounds foolish to me. The solution is to switch to a better designed mailer (exim springs to mind) with easier to manage configuration. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]