How do I change the configration of sendmail

Jeff Lasman blists at nobaloney.net
Wed Dec 31 19:53:25 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 31 December 2003 09:46 am, James Kosin wrote:

> try looking in /etc/sendmail
> sendmail.cf is a compiled file you shouldn't touch with an editor.

That's not quite true.  It's a config file written in sendmail's own 
config file language.  Because it's hard for some of us (I've always 
edited it by hand) most people maintain .mc files and convert.  But you 
certainly can and many of us do edit sendmail.cf.

Jeff
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