[comp.mail.sendmail] Vendor sendmail.cfs

igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) (04/18/91)

In article <1991Apr16.071452.26130@pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
> No vendor I know of (please look at my return address before you flame me)
> ships a sendmail.cf that's worth lining bird cages with.  The closest thing

Indeed.  This was what started this chain!  I realised when I switched
from using MMDF on Suns in my academic days to using sendmail on a
variety of home-brew and commercial Unix systems that the vendor
supplied stuff was hopeless.  (When we were a vendor I supplied
UK-Sendmail 2.1, by the way).  Therefore I wrote a config for my main
router machine, which is a Sun using IDA, and then wrote a set of m4
files to generate config files for all the other cruft on the site.
I've even used that same load of stuff elsewhere.  It's been seen to
work fine on Suns, various V.2 and V.3 iron, Sequents, Dells with
V.4...but not on IBM 6150s or RS/6000s.  The 6150 for some obscure
reason didn't call S3, the 6000 DOES call S3 (nothing like breaking
something and then breaking it back, yes?) but has had a few options
removed.

And the IBM supplied sendmail.,cf isn't even worth lining bird cages
with.

ian