On Thu, 17 May 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
Well, there are two "askolot". One believes in using m4 for the creation
of sendmail.cf. One uses vi.
I personally do not belong to either of them. I believe a large mail
server should use m4, since it's easier to control changes and add
features using the m4 macros, than to control it when directly editing
sendmail.cf. For a home user, or someone that runs a standalone sendmail
server that serves himself (or himself and 10-20 people), there is no
added value from using the m4 macros, not only that, learning to find how
to add new features or deal with existing ones with the macros for medium
level sysadmins is a real pain.
Thus, I believe that using vi in these cases is easier, and has no
bearing on either ease of use or anything else.
my 2 cents,
--Ariel
> You shouldn't edit /etc/sendmail.cf manually... It is automatically generated
> from /etc/mail/sendmail.mc using a set of m4 macros making it much easier
> to understand the configuration file. See my previous post on what line to
> comment there (or just read the comments there!) and how to recreate
> /etc/sendmail.cf.
>
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> Nadav Har'El | Thursday, May 17 2001, 25 Iyyar 5761
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>
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