On Thu, 17 May 2001 19:56:54 +0300 (IDT), Ariel Biener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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. ....
I manage a sendmail server for a medium company (~200 employees).
My experience (of several years and 3 generations of sendmail - I
haven't installed the 8.11 yet) is that is easier to do the rough
configuring using the macros, but fine-tune using sendmail.cf. There
are some things you can not do with macros unless you change their
source definitions which amounts to changing sendmail.cf by hand.
The supposed benefit of using macros only is the easier move to new
version of sendmail, but my experience is that you should save the
old sendmail.cf and compare it to the new one. IT CAN SAVE A LOT OF
TIME DEBUGGING.
My "kingdom" includes 9 Linux's. 2 of them are configured as stand
alone mail servers and are connected directly to the Internet.
The other 7 (clients) uses our main mail server as relay. Whenever
I install a new client Linux I just copy the sendmail.cf and change
the hostname in it.
Ehud.
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