I've been playing with Sendmail for a couple of weeks now and I feel pretty comfortable with it. Lately, what i've done is just download the source code for sendmail and build and compile as needed. It still works fine.
There's nothing wrong with that approach, although if you keep up-to-date with the FreeBSD sources, you're going to get something which resembles sendmail.org releases very closely.
However, I have some questions about how Sendmail comes setup default on a FreeBSD system. For instance, there are quite a few directories and locations of where sendmail items are located and im confused as to why everything is where it is and why there are duplicate files.
For instance:
mail# find / -type d -name sendmail -print /usr/libexec/sendmail
This is the place where MTA-specific binaries go; see "man mailwrapper" for considerations about swapping in a different MTA like Postfix or qmail.
/usr/share/sendmail
This is where the installed cf files are kept for a system that does not have sources.
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/include/sendmail
These are where the real sources are kept.
/usr/src/etc/sendmail
This is a template for /etc/mail which gets generated during the source build process.
/usr/src/share/sendmail
Source code repositiory for the cf files mentioned above.
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
This is a link to src/contrib/sendmail
I'm a bit confused on why everything is spread out the way it is and was looking for some feedback to help me understand this more.
For instance, if I was to install a patch (lets say the patch if you dont have 8.12.10) I would need to navigate to the source directory for the default sendmail on FreeBSD...where is that directory?
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail
-- -Chuck
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