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Bug#: 70309
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Reporter: Zeek <gentoo_ml@burninghusk.com>
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Description:   Opened: 2004-11-06 16:07 0000 
sendmail.cf should be generated on the end user machine, not distributed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sendmail
2. ls -l /etc/mail



Expected Results:  
sendmail.cf should be generated on the end user machine.

------- Comment #1 From Zeek 2004-11-06 16:11:00 0000 ------- 
This also applies to submit.cf.

The sendmail ebuild does not even install a submit.mc file!

The Makefile in this bug contains the commands to build a proper sendmail.cf and submit.cf:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35391

------- Comment #2 From David Sparks 2004-11-08 13:54:02 0000 ------- 
These are the files that should not be distributed:

sock sendmail # l /usr/portage/mail-mta/sendmail/files/*.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 39897 May 30 02:20 /usr/portage/mail-mta/sendmail/files/sendmail-procmail.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 39312 May 30 02:20 /usr/portage/mail-mta/sendmail/files/sendmail.cf

------- Comment #3 From Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) 2004-12-07 02:21:27 0000 ------- 
A new sendmail-8.13.1-r1 ebuild is masked in portage now and it generates
.cf files locally using our .mc files.

Testing is appreciated :)

------- Comment #4 From David Sparks 2005-02-14 16:12:40 0000 ------- 
The sendmail.mc looks good after the merge.

The submit.mc file is still missing.

Note there is still no facility for rebuilding the file with any local settings.

------- Comment #5 From Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) 2005-05-17 06:05:31 0000 ------- 
What's the purpose of submit.mc? submit.cf rarely needs to be tweaked.

Also what do you mean with "there is still no facility for rebuilding the file
with any local settings" ? Are you still referring to submit.mc|cf ?

------- Comment #6 From David Sparks 2005-06-23 17:03:52 0000 ------- 
submit.mc is used for the MSA settings.  Most people don't run/use the MSA so
that is why it is rarely tweaked.  If you run it though, you'll probably want
the submit.mc

If someone wants to make local tweaks to their sendmail.mc there are no
instructions on how to regenerate the .cf file.  Almost all linux distros
include a Makefile to make this easier.

------- Comment #7 From Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) 2005-06-24 00:45:43 0000 ------- 
Well I use the MSA and I never had to tweak submit.mc, anyway since it's
already
there in /usr/share/sendmail-cf/cf/submit.mc I just commited a fix to 8.13.4-r1
that makes a copy of it into /etc/mail with a proper 'include' statement in it
for easy m4 ricompilation.

About the Makefile please see/comment bug 35391.
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