On 2016-11-08 16:33, Thomas Auge wrote: > in a recent development, updates started overwriting sendmail.cf, now it > seems a rebuild is forced on every startup. It's completely unexpected with > grave implications. Please do not overwrite modified configuration files > without asking.
Something that appears prominently at the beginning of sendmail.cf (and that is not a Debian addition): ###################################################################### ##### ##### DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Only edit the source .mc file. ##### ###################################################################### (The last time I used sendmail (iirc 8.12) in a production environment about 15 years ago I hacked around in sendmail.mc and various *.m4 files, and had a sendmail.cf generated out of these, but never edited sendmail.cf manually) Andreas
