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DATE | 2001-12-08 |
FROM | From: "Ruben"
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] [comp.mail.sendmail] Re: Sendmail via LInuxconf
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Sat Dec 8 18:35:38 2001 Received: from mail.rm-cpa.com (mail.rm-cpa.com [216.112.229.114]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id fB8NZbY04913 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:35:37 -0500 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (dsl254-112-136.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.112.136]) by mail.rm-cpa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12210; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:31:24 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id fB8NXt404893 for hangout-desteny; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:33:55 -0500 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (www2.mrbrklyn.com [216.254.112.135]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with SMTP id fB8NXsY04888 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:33:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:33:54 -0500 Message-Id: <200112082333.fB8NXsY04888-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.9.6 (Unix) From: "Ruben" To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: [hangout] [comp.mail.sendmail] Re: Sendmail via LInuxconf Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: "Ruben" List: New Yorkers Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribename-at-domian.com to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Keywords: X-UID: 19377 Status: RO Content-Length: 3011 Lines: 80
In article , "Miroslav Zubcic" wrote:
> "Lenny Shovsky" writes: > >> What file does LInuxconf generate sendmail.cf from ? is it the same >> sendmail.mc from /etc/mail ??? > > No. RedHat's "program" linuxconf is complitley broken. > > If you must know, it works like this: > > In /usr/lib/linuxconf/mailconf are 14-20 pieces of *very* old > sendmail.cf file for sendmail 8.8.7 with some hacks. This files are used > for generating sendmail.cf file. > > Sendmail binary version in RedHat 7.0, 7.1 and RedHat compatible > distributions of Linux is 8.11.X. There is no way to get working > sendmail.cf with linuxconf. > > They are shiping linuxconf and his module "mailconf" without checking > this facts. > > Anyway, even if pieces of sendmail.cf are newer than 8.8.7 you cannot > configure sendmail so precize and good like you can do with m4 files and > by writing/editing your .mc file. > > Some other facts: > > a) RedHat is packaging sendmail in 3 (!?) rpm packets instead of one. m4 > macros are not installed by default, so you probably don't have > complete sendmail installation. > > b) They are not respecting new naming scheme in modern sendmail, that > is, all files must be in /etc/mail (including sendmail.cf) > > c) In RedHat 7.1 sendmail.cf is configured by default to listen *only* > on local interface (127.0.0.1) This will (and it does allready) > produce big number of questions in this group, because sendmail will > not listen on eth* interfaces after upgradeing RH distribution. > > Solution, (little harder but...): > > Get sendmail.8.11.3.tar.gz from ftp.sendmail.org Get cyrus-sasl-1.5.24 > from ftp.andrew.cmu.edu Get openldap from http://www.openldap.org > > Fire up gcc ... :-) > > Go here for useful docs: > > http://www.sendmail.org/faq > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca > > Compile sendmail to use your new sasl, compile it with BerkeleyDB-3 > instead of gdbm, and to be linked with your new-compiled libldap instead > of RedHat's bloated and overlinked libldap. > > It looks like RedHat is hating sendmail for some reason, because with > every new version of their distribution sendmail is screwed more and > more by default. > > Maybe I will wrote detailed HOWTO "How to get working and good > configured sendmail in RedHat and RedHat compatible distributions of > Linux)! > > I'm using RedHat for servers and my workstation on work, but it sux by > default. After installing RedHat 7.1 i taked four days for reconfiguring > and recompiling things (not just sendmail) to get normal Linux/UNIX > system - yes RedHat, Mandrake & comp can be good, but you must take some > time to get things in order - which is possible becasue of nature of > Linux (like in free unixoid operating system) - flexibility and > configurability without limits. > > Hope this helps. > ____________________________ New Yorker Linux Users Scene Fair Use - because it's either fair use or useless....
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