How do I change the configration of sendmail

[William Hooper]

Jeff Lasman said:
> 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.

If you read the init script for sendmail, you will find your changes made
directly to the sendmail.cf file can and will be overwritten.  The warning
"DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!  Only edit the source .mc file." is there for a
reason.
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William Hooper