Revision 9199,
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checked in by iwaim, 10 years ago
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add files for sendmail 8.14.5-2
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1 | Important information to config file handling: |
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2 | ============================================== |
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4 | The latest version of the sendmail package for Vine Linux now uses the new and |
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5 | recommended way of separating sendmail into two applications, one for email |
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6 | delivery, the other for email reception. The former doesn't need to run as root |
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7 | and uses a separate configuration file, called /etc/mail/submit.cf. The later |
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8 | only provides email reception functionalty and, as before, uses |
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9 | /etc/mail/sendmail.cf as it's configuration file. |
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10 | |
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11 | The resons for spliting sendmail into two separate applications and how to use |
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12 | it is described in more detail in /usr/share/doc/sendmail/SECURITY. |
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14 | |
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15 | !Note! |
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16 | ====== |
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18 | New in the latest package now is also that the configuration files will be |
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19 | automatically updated after a restart if the corresponding mc files in |
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20 | /etc/mail have been modified so changes done to the sendmail.cf and submit.cf |
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21 | file will be lost if not done in the respective sendmail.mc and submit.mc |
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22 | files, too. |
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