Sendmail.cf question: Ignoring smart relay for local mail

[David A. Bandel]

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:23:13 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> I have a firewall box which runs sendmail, which routes
> all mail to my comcast mailserver (Otherwise, my mail
> bounces). This works fine except when I want to send
> mail locally from the firewall box to other boxes on
> the network.
> 
> I know there are M4 macros for doing this, but I am
> determined not to get involved with that, since I have
> a perfectly good sendmail.cf file and have no desire to
> tinker more than necessary.
> 
> I can brute force this by running sendmail manually with
> the -C option to point to another sendmail.cf; but, I
> would like to know a way to edit sendmail.cf to handle
> this automatically.

Eric Allman, the guy who wrote sendmail says:
"I treat the sendmail.cf file like a binary ..."

Do _not_ muck with sendmail.cf.  Editing sendmail.mc is _not_ hard, nor
is running m4.  I wish all config files were this easy.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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