Re: Help with sendmail ?

From	Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Help with sendmail ?
Date	2026-02-02 10:39 +0100
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On 01.02.2026 15:22 Uhr Lars Poulsen wrote:

> And as sendmail.cf became entirely too unwieldy, they "solved" it
> my adding a completely different "high-level" configuration language
> in the form of M4 with option names that were similar to the ones
> in sendmail itself, but spelled slightly differently.
> I never got the hang of writing in sendmail.mc, preferring to hand
> edit sendmail.cf, but only in areas where I needed to (which
> were very rarely needed and confined to a single line at a time.

IBM AIX still doesn't come with the m4 files. They started providing
AUTH compile time in 7.3 from 2021. Different msp config file was also
added with that release.

So certain people still handle .cf file nowadays.

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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