sendmail and m4

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, m.w.Chang wrote:

> m4... oh my cow...later.
> 
> I really want to learn the black art of configurating sendmail WITHOUT 
> M4 though not recommended by anyone. Sendmail doesn't read the m4 file 
> directly, so why the hussles of an extra step? Beats me...

   I agree.  I've run m4 just once in 8 years of using sendmail.  I've 
always simply edited sendmail.cf directly.  m4 mearly takes ANOTHER config 
file and rewrites it into sendmail.cf in a different format.  Yes, 
sendmail.cf can be hard to read and figure out but it can be done! :-)

      --- Jay
             
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