sendmail

[robert sears_1]

Do you have to recomplie the sendmail.cf after you edit it? This entire sendmail business has broke my brain. Does anyone know of some on site tutorials or other reference for configuring the sendmail.cf file?

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

sendmail must not be compiled. Instead after changes made you have to stop/start sendmail:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Regards

[Lasse Knudsen]

No, you do not need to recompile. (anymore)

And yes sendmail.cf configuration is a pain. If just HP could send along the sendmail configuration source files and the m4 macro file, configuration would be a *lot* easyer.

Poking around in .cf files is a mess and your changes are messed up when you apply the next sendmail patch.

Try sendmail.org for configuration hints.

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Don't edit sendmail.cf by hand -- use the m4 macro method outlined on www.sendmail.org

Or you use a compatible, but more secure, faster and easier to configure product (like HP themselves do!) : Postfix.

www.postfix.org

[Michael J Adrian]

Just make sure u save the file before making any changes, since it can be messy sometimes.