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Re: Config files

#2886
From: Jim Reid
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1988 12:12
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In article <684@picuxa.UUCP> tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) writes:
* 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.

Jim Crammond's sendmail compiler kit was posted to comp.sources.unix
some time ago. It must have been earlier than Volume 7 of that newsgroup.
Our local comp.sources.unix archive site only goes back as far as Volume
7 and it isn't there. There was a patch supplied as article v08i051, so
the initial posting must have preceded that. You should be able to fetch
the kit from your nearest archive site that keeps the older stuff.

I will post the configuration file compiler kit in a week or so to
comp.mail.sendmail on two conditions:
	(a) nobody objects to me doing this
	(b) there is a general demand for it to be posted.
If you agree or disagree with me posting it, *MAIL* me. Don't post
followup news articles.

The whole kit is about 150Kbytes in size. If posting the kit is voted
down, I'm prepared to mail it to a few overseas sites who are willing
to redistribute it.

		Jim
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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Config files
Message-ID: <1244@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Oct 88 12:12:06 GMT
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