On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:47, 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?
The only thing which you should be aware of is whether you're using procmail as your MDA. Under Fedora, this is the case. Im not sure if the -out-of-the-box in gentoo uses procmail, but i lookked at my .mc file and have it there. > 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. Unlike fedora, gentoo forces you to learn the inner workings of the system. It is by far the best method to actually learn anything. Sure, if you're just a user, it's fine, but if you want to learn, it's best to look under the hood. > > Anyway that configuration works out of the box just fine, simply all the > advanced features and configuration tweaks are not specified. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 20:10:13 up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.64, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
