[lug] Does mail speak SMTP?

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Fri Feb 13 20:07:45 MST 2004


On Feb 13, 2004, at 1:30 PM, dan radom wrote:

> * Dhruva B. Reddy (bdhruva at gmx.net) wrote:
>> Oops.  It turns out the MTA was just not reading the configuration.
>> In RedHat you have to manually copy your sendmail.cf file to the /etc
>> directory.  I kept rebuilding it with m4 in the /etc/mail directory 
>> and
>> found out that it was never reading that file.  So basically it was 
>> just
>> me forgetting the file location that RedHat likes.
>>
>
> Gee.  Thanks redhat for not working with the sendmail.cf file in the
> place the sendmail people think it rightfully belongs!

Well, actually their mistake is in not modifying mail to use the 
location they switched to, since they made the change.  File a bug 
report!  ;-)

Nate




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