Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!whuts!picuxa!tgr From: tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Config files Message-ID: <684@picuxa.UUCP> Date: 21 Oct 88 21:29:05 GMT References: <8810171058.AA00829@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> Reply-To: tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) Organization: Planet 10, across the 8th Dimension Lines: 22 In article <8810171058.AA00829@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes: :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! Can this be posted? I, too, am stuck with a vendor-supplied sendmail.cf, and I wouldn't want to try to edit it. If it will not be posted, is it available by anonymous uucp (no FTP here) from any site within the US? I really don't want to have to download software from the UK if I can avoid it. Thanks in advance... -- Tom Gillespie ( ...att!picuxa!tgr) | (attmail!tgillespie) (201) 952-1178 AT&T/EDS Product Integration Center 299 Jefferson Rd. Parsippany NJ 07054 "Don't take life so serious ... it ain't nohow permanent." -- Walt Kelly