Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!Ian From: idc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Ian Crorie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Config files Message-ID: <14381.8810171623@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 17 Oct 88 16:23:59 GMT Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Lines: 69 X-mailer: mail gatewayed to news (mail-news 1.5a) > You are going wrong on two counts. Firstly, you're using (or adapting) > a vendor-supplied "generic" sendmail.cf file. This is almost always a > mistake as they invariably fail to do what they claim to. Secondly, > you're not using Jim Crammond's configuration file compiler kit. This > makes configuring sendmail a doddle and has the advantage of being > easily maintainable. It will cure your sendmail troubles, so get hold > of a copy and use it! Absolutely. > > [To the list maintainer: perhaps you could post an advert for this > kit, explaining what it is and how to get it, to the DL every now and > again. An alternative would be to pass this information to folk who > join the list. I'm surprised that some people on this DL are unaware > of Jim Crammond's compiler kit. It seem a pity that the DL looks to be > headed for discussions of the minutae of the FooBar Computer Company's > "generic" sendmail.cf file version AA.BB.CC.DD.EE.] UK-1.4a ------- Jim still maintains the list here even though he is at ic.doc. He has shar files here at hw.cs for ftp access for those of you who can do that, or I will mail copies to people on request. Any day now ;-) I hope our info server stuff will be up and running and I'll not need to answer requests myself. BTW, I have had problems caused by classes appearing in the .cf in random order instead of in the order of arguments to the .dom file MAKE (which is the logical way for it to happen). When ed.ee appeared in the NRS mail addressed to user@ee was expanded to user@ed.ee instead of user@hw.ee. Jim has a fix for this which will be included in the kit when it arrives. BTW, I've not tried the glasgow modified version of the .cf kit. Since Jim Reid mentioned that this information about getting the package should be available to new people should info on both versions be available? Should someone who has used both write a couple of paras explaining why there are 2 versions, what the differences are, etc? FTP details: --- -------- Hostname: uk.ac.hw.cs Username: guest Password: your-mail-address (for our information) Filename: sm-1.4partn (where n is 1-5 - see below) -rw-r--r-- 1 jim 41852 Oct 26 1987 sm-1.4part1 -rw-r--r-- 1 jim 19135 Oct 26 1987 sm-1.4part2 -rw-r--r-- 1 jim 20666 Oct 26 1987 sm-1.4part3 -rw-r--r-- 1 jim 31350 Oct 26 1987 sm-1.4part4 -rw-r--r-- 1 jim 43666 Oct 26 1987 sm-1.4part5 MAIL details: ---- -------- send mail to postmaster@uk.ac.hw.cs GOSSIP ------ Any day now we may have to begin referring to him as *Dr* Jim Crammond. Watch this space!