LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:58:58 +1030 (CST)

Re: which line does sendmail access denial apply to?

> I've checked the sendmail book, but I can't make sense of that.
> I've also ready the sendmail.cf file, and I can't make sense of that
> either.  But my access.db file appears (via the K command) in many
> different rules.  Sendmail.cf files are about as much fun to read as
> hexadecimal machine language dumps.

It's even less fun that that.

Thats why we have the sendmail-cf package and the m4 scripting
language. The sendmail.org website talks almost exclusively in m4
configuration terms.

Editing the sendmail.cf file is usually a bad idea. Stuff breaks. If
you have a redhat system, the file to edit is in
/usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf/redhat.mc. You can use this to make a
sendmail.cf file.

The sendmail.cf file format is obscure, but it is olso very powerful.
I believe there is a 'calculator' sendmail.cf file that turns your
mail daemon into a calculator.

and so on.

Cheers

Alex!

-- 

Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>

NetCraft Australia
Phone (08) 8338 0888
http://www.netcraft.com.au

"#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb)) // Shakespeare."

-- 
LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/  IRC: #linuxsa on irc.linux.org.au
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject