Alfred Werner

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July 19, 1999, on Post.Office:
I've admin-ed a bunch of Unix boxes since the mid 1980's (gasp) and at my advanced age (36) I'm not as impressed by thoroughly complicated machinery anymore, I just want stuff to work. So I was looking at ditching sendmail for one of the newer vintage (although sendmail keeps rev-ing). After playing around with a few packages, and hosing the sendmail that came with RedHat (see - I told you I got lazy), I decided to reinstall sendmail since I had a deadline coming up. I downloaded the source, and installed the way you install any other Unix software - skim the README, then type make; make install and grab a cup of coffee. Well, hey, they actually have a directory with a really, really short file that runs through a gazillion M4 macros to generate sendmail.cf Turns out that after all these years of battling the output, I should have been playing with the tiny little file that does exactly what I want, and is more like all the other Unix s/w I play with. I almost always edit config.h befo...