Thanks for the info Dave. I've dabbled in Forth myself, a long while ago. Write only is right!
Robert Finneran recommended I go to Postfix, and I think I'll do that. Cheers! julian. ====================== At 05:27 PM 1/3/02 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:09:03PM -0600, Julian Opificius wrote: > > Sorry, I don't know what FEATURE is, and I don't know what m4 is. > >Not a problem. 'm4' is a venerable yet powerful macro preprocessor >that has been in Unix since, well, forever. It is the basis of the C >and original C++ macro preprocessors, and even after all this time is >a feature-rich tool. > >Sendmail has one of the most obtuse configuration syntaxes ever created; >in my mind, only second to Forth as a write-only 'language'. Dense, >effecting a tremendous number and range of mail-related features in >a compact syntax, but very human-unfriendly. This caused innumerable >errors and difficulty over time. > >m4 has been used to provide a set of macros that allow more >admin-friendly creation of sendmail configuration files from a >much simpler config description file. This input file, usually >/etc/sendmail.mc (or /etc/mail/sendmail.mc), is run as the input to m4, >producing the full sendmail configuration file, usually /etc/sendmail.cf >(/etc/mail/sendmail.cf). FEATURE is one of these macros. > >This has been beautifully documented in one of the O'Reilly series of >books. It is VERY much to your advantage to get this book, abandon >managing sendmail via LinuxConf, and simply use the latest version of >sendmail from sendmail.org. > >Cheers, >-- > Dave Ihnat > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ============================== Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 ============================== _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
