On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 02:47, Andrea Barisani wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:41:16PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I'm pretty sure I've got mailman working now, so I move on to preparing > > sendmail for use by my remote users. I looked at /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > and couldn't help but notice that it was much much shorter than my > > Fedora Core 1 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file was out-of-the-box. I was > > wondering what features Gentoo's sendmail package provides > > out-of-the-box, and if it would harm sendmail if I were to copy over my > > server PC's sendmail.mc and .cf files. Would this work, or is sendmail > > already like I need it to be? > > Our sendmail.mc is pretty simple and it contains only the basic directives > for defining the OS and the Local Delivery Agent. We are considering adding a > commented sendmail-gentoo.mc (or some official doc) in the future even if we > prefer to keep it very light, it's my personal opinion that all users should > read and understand the configuration before deploying an MTA. > > Anyway that configuration works out of the box just fine, simply all the > advanced features and configuration tweaks are not specified. > > If you copy the Fedora .mc file it should be able to generate a valid .cf > file for your gentoo box, be sure that all specified paths are valid. Don't > move the .cf file, all .cf files should be manually generated from the .mc > one with `m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf`. > > Cheers
Perhaps this sendmail.mc file I use for an example will be of help Notice the <-change stuff, change it and remove the <-change whatever. I found this on http://www.hserus.net/pop_smtp.html divert(-1) dnl This is the macro config file used to generate sendmail.cf dnl file. If you modify this file you will have to regenerate dnl sendmail.cf by running this macro config through the m4 dnl preprocessor: dnl dnl m4 /home/fancy/Documents/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf <--Change to your path dnl dnl You will need to have the sendmail-cf RPM installed for this dnl to work, if you use an rpm build of sendmail dnl dnl include(`../m4/cf.m4') dnl dnl If you compile sendmail from a tarball, use the include above. dnl In this setup, you should create the file as cf/cf/config.mc dnl (in the sendmail source tree: eg. /usr/src/sendmail-8.11.6/cf/cf dnl Now give the command "sh Build config.cf". Now copy the file dnl config.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (please backup first!) dnl dnl If you are using the RPM build of sendmail, use the dnl include statement given below instead dnl include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4') define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'') OSTYPE(`linux') undefine(`UUCP_RELAY') undefine(`BITNET_RELAY') define(`confCF_VERSION',`dialup-1.3') define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.yourisp.com') <--Change this define(`confAUTO_REBUILD') define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m') define(`confTO_IDENT',0) define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true) define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true) define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE',true) define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `queued') define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail') define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/mail/aliases') MASQUERADE_AS(`yourisp.com') <--Change this FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh') FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') FEATURE(redirect) FEATURE(always_add_domain) FEATURE(use_cw_file) FEATURE(`use_ct_file') FEATURE(local_procmail) MAILER(smtp) MAILER(procmail) FEATURE(`access_db') FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients') FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains') FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders') dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX') -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
