[Mimedefang] Alternate submit.cf location

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Tue Jan 7 21:49:00 EST 2003


-ray wrote:

>Any ideas?  Is it recommended to change sendmails notion of "/etc/mail"?  
>How would i do this?  I found m4/build options to change the location of
>everything in /etc/mail EXCEPT the .cf files.  thanks for any info...
>
    From sendmail/README:

        Up to 8.6, sendmail tried to find the sendmail.cf file in the same
        place as the vendors had put it, even when this was obviously
        stupid.  As of 8.7, sendmail ALWAYS looks for /etc/sendmail.cf.
        Beginning with 8.10, sendmail uses /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
        You can get sendmail to use the stupid vendor .cf location by
        adding -DUSE_VENDOR_CF_PATH during compilation, but this may break
        support programs and scripts that need to find sendmail.cf.  You
        are STRONGLY urged to use symbolic links if you want to use the
        vendor location rather than changing the location in the sendmail
        binary.

    So you could change your config path if needed.

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