[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail on oi 151_a9

[Predrag Zecevic]

Am 13.10.2014 um 23:03 schrieb Harry Putnam:
> Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>
>>> I have yet to find much that is helpful in creating a sendmail.mc.  I
>>> have not found a single example of a sendmail.mc in those docs.
>>>
>>> There are piles of information about how to test, what to do once you
>>> have a working sendmail.mc... but precious little about actually
>>> creating one.
>>>
>>> Apparently it was felt the reader should already know the nuts and
>>> bolts of creating sendmail.cf
>>
>> Oracle documentation is almost the last place you would want to go to
>> learn about configuring sendmail.
>
> Thank you, yes, I agree.
>
>> The best information available may be found on your system in the file
>> /etc/mail/cf/README, which is provided by the sendmail package.
>
> I've used that file many times to look up what one or another stanza
> in a sample *.mc was supposed to do.  So, I agree.  Its good to know
> about. However, in 4311 lines there is not one concrete example of a
> sendmail.mc that user can take apart rearrange and etc.
>
> It turns out on oi, oi-hipster the setup is all rigged up in
> /etc/mail/cf/cf with makefiles that pull out the m4 tools for you.
>
> You just say `make sendmail.cf' after editing sendmail.mc
>
>
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Hi,

did you considered postfix (as sendmail replacement)?
It is much easier to configure and is present in OI and almost up to 
date: http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe/en/catalog.shtml.

If you still want to use sendmail, please ignore me.
Regards.
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