Sendmail Config

[Michael Torrie]

On 11/08/2010 04:13 PM, Jon Jensen wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jacob Albretsen wrote:
> 
>> I was always taught that the RIGHT way to configure sendmail was to 
>> install sendmail-cf and configure it via the sendmail.mc / submit.mc 
>> files and then generate the .cf files.  A lot of what I'm reading online 
>> tells me to edit sendmail.cf / submit.cf files directly to make 
>> configuration changes.  This would imply not installing sendmail-cf
>>
>> So this got me to rethinking what I was taught.  Which is the right / 
>> most correct way and why?
> 
> I've done it both ways, and if you can, I would recommend using 
> sendmail-cf and editing the mc files only. The .cf files should be treated 
> as binary output if possible.

Agreed.  The mc files are somewhat more human-readable, and easier to
version control.  Plus the syntax of cf files is not exactly easy to
understand and I always worry about breaking something.  At least with
the mc file, if it compiles I know I haven't made any syntax errors.  I
think most sendmail admins would agree that you should modify the mc file.